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Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy (Platform Studies) Paperback – May 14, 2024

by Jose P. Zagal (Author), Benj Edwards (Author)
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The curious history, technology, and technocultural context of Nintendo’s short-lived stereoscopic gaming console, the Virtual Boy.

With glowing red stereoscopic 3D graphics, the Virtual Boy cast a prophetic hue: Shortly after its release in 1995, Nintendo's balance sheet for the product was "in the red" as well. Of all the innovative long shots the game industry has witnessed over the years, perhaps the most infamous and least understood was the Virtual Boy. Why the Virtual Boy failed, and where it succeeded, are questions that video game experts José Zagal and Benj Edwards explore in Seeing Red, but even more interesting to the authors is what the platform actually was: what it promised, how it worked, and where it fit into the story of gaming.

Nintendo released the Virtual Boy as a standalone table-top device in 1995—and quickly discontinued it after lackluster sales and a lukewarm critical reception. In Seeing Red, Zagal and Edwards examine the device's technical capabilities, its games, and the cultural context in the US in the 1990s when Nintendo developed and released the unusual console. The Virtual Boy, in their account, built upon and extended an often-forgotten historical tradition of immersive layered dioramas going back 100 years that was largely unexplored in video games at the time. The authors also show how the platform's library of games conveyed a distinct visual aesthetic style that has not been significantly explored since the Virtual Boy's release, having been superseded by polygonal 3D graphics. The platform's meaning, they contend, lies as much in its design and technical capabilities and affordances as it does in an audience's perception of those capabilities.

Offering rare insight into how we think about video game platforms, Seeing Red illustrates where perception and context come, quite literally, into play.
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    Platform Studies
  2. Print length
    184 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    The MIT Press
  5. Publication date
    May 14, 2024
  6. Dimensions
    6.06 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0262045060
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0262045063
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“Seeing Red makes good on the promises of media archaeology and platform studies by excavating the roots of an oft-derided 'minor platform' and demonstrating how market failures are viable and valuable objects of media analysis.”
—Nathan Altice, Associate Teaching Professor of Computational Media at UC Santa Cruz, author of I AM ERROR
 
“Seeing Red offers the best kind of platform study, engaging with the technology, marketing, and afterlife of the Virtual Boy and finding rich sources of insight and knowledge in a platform many consider a ‘failure.’”
—Mia Consalvo, Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design, Concordia University, coauthor of Real Games

About the Author

José P. Zagal is Professor at the University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts & Engineering program. He is the author of Ludoliteracy, editor of The Videogame Ethics Reader, and Editor-in-Chief of Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association. Zagal has been honored as a DiGRA Distinguished Scholar and a Fellow of the Higher-Education Video Game Alliance for his contributions to games research.

Benj Edwards is a tech historian and journalist. He is currently the AI and Machine Learning reporter for Ars Technica and a tech journalist for publications such as The Atlantic, Wired, Macworld, PCWorld, Fast Company, and other publications. Edwards is also the Editor-in-Chief of Vintage Computing and Gaming, a contributor to the Retronauts podcast, and creator of The Culture of Tech podcast.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press (May 14, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 184 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262045060
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262045063
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.06 x 0.5 x 9 inches

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Dr. José P. Zagal is a game designer and scholar. He is also a Professor with the University of Utah’s nationally ranked Entertainment Arts & Engineering program where, among other things, he teaches courses on game design, ethics in videogames, and experimental games. He taught his first university-level class in 2000 and has since supervised multiple award-winning student projects, and many of his former students work at leading game studios worldwide.

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