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This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities Rossignol, Jim. This Gaming Life: Travels In Three Cities. E-book, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2008, https://doi.org/10.3998/dcbooks.5682627.0001.001. Downloaded on behalf of Unknown Institution THIS GAMING LIFE Rossignol, Jim. This Gaming Life: Travels In Three Cities. E-book, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2008, https://doi.org/10.3998/dcbooks.5682627.0001.001. Downloaded on behalf of Unknown Institution digitalculturebooks is a collaborative imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the University of Michigan Library. Rossignol, Jim. This Gaming Life: Travels In Three Cities. E-book, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2008, https://doi.org/10.3998/dcbooks.5682627.0001.001. Downloaded on behalf of Unknown Institution THIS GAMING LIFE TRAVELS IN THREE CITIES Jim Rossignol The University of The University of AND > Ann Arbor Michigan Press Michigan Library Rossignol, Jim. This Gaming Life: Travels In Three Cities. E-book, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2008, https://doi.org/10.3998/dcbooks.5682627.0001.001. Downloaded on behalf of Unknown Institution Copyright © by Jim Rossignol 2008 All rights reserved Published in the United States of America by The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America c Printed on acid-free paper 2011 2010 2009 2008 4 3 2 1 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher. A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rossignol, Jim, 1978– This gaming life : travels in three cities / Jim Rossignol. p. cm. ISBN-13: 978-0-472-11635-5 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-472-11635-5 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Video games—Social aspects. 2. Video games—Psychological aspects. I. Title. GV1469.34.S52R67 2008 794.8—dc22 2007052485 ISBN13 978-0-472-03397-3 (paper) ISBN13 978-0-472-02314-1 (electronic) Rossignol, Jim. This Gaming Life: Travels In Three Cities. E-book, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2008, https://doi.org/10.3998/dcbooks.5682627.0001.001. Downloaded on behalf of Unknown Institution Nobody leads a life of quiet desperation nowa- days. The mass of men was quietly desperate a million years ago because the infernal computers inside their skulls were incapable of restraint or idleness; were forever demanding more challeng- ing problems which life could not provide. > KURT VONNEGUT, Galápagos, 1985 My friend Trevor is over at my house with his nephew Donny. We’re playing WarioWare on the GameCube, but Donny’s not really interested. When it came time to make a man jump on a ba- nana, he pronounced it “gay” and put the con- troller down. So now it’s down to me as a danc- ing cat and Trevor as some kind of alien in sunglasses and a cape. Donny’s reading the man- ual for Manhunt. He’s pretty psyched that you can kill someone with a plastic bag. > TOM CHICK, “Saving Private Donny,” 2004 Rossignol, Jim. This Gaming Life: Travels In Three Cities. E-book, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2008, https://doi.org/10.3998/dcbooks.5682627.0001.001. Downloaded on behalf of Unknown Institution Rossignol, Jim. This Gaming Life: Travels In Three Cities. E-book, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2008, https://doi.org/10.3998/dcbooks.5682627.0001.001. Downloaded on behalf of Unknown Institution Contents > LONDON How Games Make Gamers 3 The Big Smoke 35 > SEOUL A Gamers’ World 55 Propagandists 88 > REYKJAVIK The Special Relationship 111 Model Living 152 > HOME The Window 187 The Playlist 203 Rossignol, Jim. This Gaming Life: Travels In Three Cities. E-book, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2008, https://doi.org/10.3998/dcbooks.5682627.0001.001. Downloaded on behalf of Unknown Institution Rossignol, Jim. This Gaming Life: Travels In Three Cities. E-book, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2008, https://doi.org/10.3998/dcbooks.5682627.0001.001. Downloaded on behalf of Unknown Institution < LONDON > Rossignol, Jim. This Gaming Life: Travels In Three Cities. E-book, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2008, https://doi.org/10.3998/dcbooks.5682627.0001.001. Downloaded on behalf of Unknown Institution Rossignol, Jim. This Gaming Life: Travels In Three Cities. E-book, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2008, https://doi.org/10.3998/dcbooks.5682627.0001.001. Downloaded on behalf of Unknown Institution How Games Make Gamers A NEW LIMB In May 2000 I was fired from my job as a reporter on a fi- nance newsletter because of an obsession with a video game. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. The job had two parts. The first part was desperately dull but easy enough for me to bumble through. Each morning I drove out to a farmhouse office complex located deep in the English countryside and sat on a Herman Miller chair in front of a large curvilinear desk. There I processed arti- cles about how to format corporate curricula vitae or occa- sionally attempted to make sense of the information I had gathered in the second part of my job. Most of the time, however, I spent clicking through a series of online forums where people discussed the ups and downs of recently re- leased video games. Anything would do. The second part of the job took place in London. Rising at dawn, I traveled up to Charing Cross in the old slam-door train carriages and watched in silent despair as the City drew ever closer. The country office might have been un- apologetically quiet and slow, but the City was numbingly, Rossignol, Jim. This Gaming Life: Travels In Three Cities. 3 E-book, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2008, https://doi.org/10.3998/dcbooks.5682627.0001.001. Downloaded on behalf of Unknown Institution 4 < THIS GAMING LIFE achingly boring. I longed for someone to talk to, someone who was even remotely inclined to escape the world of banking. Inevitably I would find myself isolated in a semi- nar that focused on the workings of debit systems and di- rect payment pipelines. I would stand up, say my name and that of my employer, and then attempt to avoid speaking for the next four or five hours. I carefully filled my notepads with poorly understood jottings. As a graduate, I had as- sumed that I wanted to be a journalist of some kind, but I clearly wasn’t coping with this. What should have been tight, insightful reporting ended up being vague, impres- sionistic, often unusable information. The world of finance remained a forbidding mystery, and the stack of John Ken- neth Galbraith books by my bedside wasn’t doing much to kindle my enthusiasm for economics either. But there was something else going on in my life that ran parallel—almost contrary—to my suit-and-tie day job: a kind of double life. During my spare moments, I was sub- merged in a different activity, one in which I was com- pletely at home. It was a video game called Quake III Arena. Gaming was a daily release, a few hours of energy and color to counterbalance my career in corporate tedium. With a cup of tea and late-1990s soundtrack (Britpop with a smattering of electronica), I launched myself into evenings of gleeful acrobatics. A torrent of explosions and power-ups vigorously erased the memories of boredom. The Quake games are the direct descendants of that most notorious of modern video games, Doom. They are combat games set in a first-person perspective and filled with the latest in spectacular graphic effects. You control your character directly, seeing things from his or her per- spective, shooting when you hit the trigger button, and picking up weapons and ammunition as you move. These games seem straightforward and approachable, since they Rossignol, Jim. This Gaming Life: Travels In Three Cities. E-book, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2008, https://doi.org/10.3998/dcbooks.5682627.0001.001. Downloaded on behalf of Unknown Institution How Games Make Gamers > 5 are so close to how we experience things in real life—you run around, see things from the character’s point of view, and so on. Yet the experience of Quake and its kin can be baffling for anyone who hasn’t already sunk hours into mas- tering them. Beginners find themselves in a state of confu- sion, unable to avoid looking at the floor or the ceiling for extended periods. Bumping into walls, unable to aim, or finding yourself obliterated by your enemies—the list of frustrations grows by the second. And they are all due to a dastardly control system that expects you to maneuver a keyboard and mouse in unison (or two thumbsticks when playing on a gamepad)—no small feat for any novice. Then there’s all the arcane rites involved in using a desktop PC to play games: install the patches, update the drivers, tweak the gizmometer. This kind of gaming doesn’t make it- self easy, and it’s tough to get yourself up to speed. Of course, anyone could, theoretically, pick up and play these games; yet, like riding a bike or driving a car, they’ll need a guiding hand to get out on the road. At weekends and during spare evenings, I was such a guiding hand. Quake III has the capacity to connect to “hosted” games on the Internet.
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