All The Games You Desire: Informal Computer Game Distribution Systems in 1980s and 1990s Czechoslovakia
2012
Abstract
This chapter offers a social historical analysis of the distribution of computer games in Czechoslovakia in the 1980s and early 1990s. Based on oral histories and archival material (including magazines, newspapers and bulletins), it describes the motivations and goals of people who took part in informal distribution of game software and claims that it played a central role in the proliferation of gaming culture in the country.