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By Maggie Greene
el 24-May-2008

I've mentioned Michael Abbot's efforts at putting together a great syllabus for his 'history of RPGs' class, which has thus far produced a flurry of discussion and a reading list; he's now put together a list of games and the number of people who have recommended them (I'm dying to know which ones will make the final cut). He does mention a few key points:

Games like X-Com and Zelda: Ocarina of Time clearly stretch the definition of "RPG." Many respondents argued these titles illustrate how great games have effectively incorporated RPG elements into other genres like strategy or adventure games. This makes sense to me. Given the short time I have available to me (one semester), I will try to illustrate these influences as best I can without veering too far off the RPG track.

... While it's very interesting for me to consider how many people recommend game X over game Y, ultimately this project isn't an RPG popularity contest, and I must choose a collection of games that best serve my pedagogical goals.

It is interesting to look at both the spread of games and how many votes certain games garnered (Chrono Trigger tops the list); it'll be interesting to see what makes the final cut.

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The History of RPGs: A Reading List [Academia Is Fun]
We mentioned Michael Abbot (of the Brainy Gamer) and his efforts to put together a great syllabus for his history of RPGs class; as promised, he's now posted the reading list (required readings will be culled from this list, but it's a pretty nice little bibliogra [..] Read complete article
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The History of RPGs: The Game List [Academia Is Fun]
I've mentioned Michael Abbot's efforts at putting together a great syllabus for his 'history of RPGs' class, which has thus far produced a flurry of discussion and a reading list; he's now put together a list of games and the number of people who have recommended them [..] Read complete article
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My friend DarkSyde makes an important point: The cliche is, 'we are watching history being made.' But that's not quite it, not tonight, not for us. We are part of making history. We will remember this evening for the rest of our lives.This primary season stretched over months, and hit every state. Every Democrat, and quite a few non-Democrats in states with open [..] Read complete article
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Video Game Tropes Wiki [Lists]
We all know and love (or hate) the expansive list of video game tropes; the TV Tropes wiki has put together a shockingly extensive list (also home of a wiki version ofthe grand list of RPG clichés), spanning all sorts of genres and with plenty of [..] Read complete article
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A Half-Life 2 Mod and a History of Video Game Physics [Mods]
My undergraduate thesis was long, kinda boring, and involved dead imperialists; two students at McMaster University have created a Half-Life 2 mod called Half-Life Havoc for theirs, and attached a little paper on the history of video game physic [..] Read complete article
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Become immortalized in the background scenery of Fable 2
Image 0 en - Become immortalized in the background scenery of Fable 2 Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGs Don your Victorian regalia, our fanciful readers, and you may earn your place in the annals of gaming history by appearing in Lionhead's much anticipated RPG, Fable 2. Just [..] Read complete article
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The History of PC Game ... Packaging? [Pc Gaming]
Interesting read over on 1up — the history of packaging trends in PC gaming. No, really. Remember the code wheels (I had one in Legacy of the Ancients and the Legend of Blacksilver, for C64). Remember Marath [..] Read complete article
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Putting Together the 'History of RPGs' Class [History]
Michael Abbott of The Brainy Gamer is putting together an undergraduate seminar on the history of the RPG (fun!), and the whole process of deciding what games to include and the reasons for that is pretty interesting — admittedly, I find syll [..] Read complete article
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Mapping the Future: Academia and Community [Academia]
I've really been enjoying GameSetWatch's series called 'The Game Anthropologist,' which (among other things) looks at various gaming communities — this week is a look at one of my favorite blogs, Michael Abbott's The Brainy Gamer. We've looked at Abbott's efforts to create (pretty collect [..] Read complete article
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New Media, Stories, and Games: the Essays [Academia]
I'm still on a semi-enforced vacation from academia, but I couldn't resist reading some of the essays found on electronic book review. The essays are a selection from two MIT Press books, First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game and Second Person: Role-Playing a [..] Read complete article
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On Parody, the Marx Bros., and Penny Arcade [Comedy]
While Michael Abbott of the Brainy Gamer doesn't have any new news on his history of RPGs class, he has penned an interesting little meditation on comedy, satire, the Marx Bros., and Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness. It suffers from an overabundance of quotations, [..] Read complete article
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SAI 25 Update: It's March 25th, So Where's The List?
We had planned to roll out our list of the world's 25 most valuable digital start-ups today. Alas, we're a week or two behind schedule. Apologies! The good news: We're almost there, and this year's list contains many great companies and [..] Read complete article
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