Story: Arcade, computer and video games

More links and websites

• Digital New Zealand 2012

  From the Interactive Games & Entertainment Association, this report provides data on video and computer game use and attitudes in New Zealand households.

• Gameplanet

  This New Zealand gaming website contains news, reviews and previews.

• Melanie Swalwell’s homepage

  Melanie Swalwell is a scholar of digital media arts, cultures and histories. Her website contains links to articles she has written on New Zealand’s gaming history.

• NZTronix: The Early New Zealand Software Database

  This is a repository of information on games and other software written and published in New Zealand during the 1980s and 1990s.

• Obscure Pixels

  This website examines early digital games and hardware in New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

• Barr, Pippin. How to play a video game. Wellington: Awa Press, 2011.

• Public perceptions of a violent video game: X-Men origins: Wolverine. Wellington: Office of Film and Literature Classification, 2009.

• Swalwell, Melanie. ‘1980s home coding: the art of amateur programming.’. In The Aotearoa digital arts reader, edited by Stella Brennan and Sy Ballard, 193–201. Auckland: Clouds, 2008.

• Swalwell, Melanie. ‘Early games production in New Zealand.’ In Proceedings of DiGRA 2005 conference: changing views – worlds in play, 3–9. Vancouver: DiGRA, 2005.