Video Game History Around The World: An Essay.

This was originally written on June 12, 2020 and published on LinkedIn. I’ve decided to move the posts here for better searchability. Those that know me well, know that I am a video game history researcher, and this is just some of my random published articles. Although video games have followed a history of being primarily dominated by companies originating from both America (e.g. Atari, Microsoft) and Japan (e.g. Nintendo, Sega, Sony) with indications of their history being straight forward and memorable, smaller niche-oriented occurrences and affairs have often evaded the public’s perception of video games. Whereas the public has willfully taken in the hegemonic viewpoint that video games originate nearly solely from these countries, a critical assessment shows that this perception is incorrect; video games have originated from a broad range of countries, many of which have directly impacted the operations of the dominant creators. By looking at these operations outside of the…