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Help Wanted: My Film-to-Game Appendix


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#1 Zwackery OFFLINE  

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Posted Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:20 PM

Hi AAers,

As some of you know, I am a college professor (I teach communication and media studies), and I am nearing the end of my dissertation, which is a look, spanning roughly a 30 year period of video game history, at games licensed from movies. I've got close to 700 unique entries in that period ranging across all platforms. All of the game titles are listed in the main appendix of my dissertation. I can't possibly play them all (and I admit, some probably aren't that fun to play), so I've been farming out some of the work to friends, but even they have their limits.

Now, I'm asking interested people here to help out, if you are so inclined. Check your video game collections and look to see if you have any games based on movies. If you would like to play and review any, let me know and I will send you a list of 7 questions that total would take about 200 words to answer. You may be wondering, well, why in the world document these games when a lot of this information (particularly in the form of reviews) can be snarfed off the internet. Well, sometimes those reviews don't give me a complete picture, and my questions have some particulars that aren't always discussed in reviews.

I will of course credit you in the acknowledgments of my dissertation using whatever name you prefer (your real one, your AA one, etc.). As this is an academic work, sadly there is no money to be had.

Please PM me if you would like to help (and let me know what games you have).

P.S. I've got the pre-NES era covered, but anything beginning with the NES and moving forward would be useful.

#2 Jibbajaba OFFLINE  

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Posted Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:19 AM

Sent you a PM.

Chris




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