What Makes A Game Punk?

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When someone describes something as punk, chances are you have a rough idea of what they mean. But if you actually stopped to think about it, would that meaning be so apparent? What about games, where costs (and the need to profit) are much higher? All this and more discussed in this episode of Writing on Games!

0:00 - What is punk?
2:43 - Suda51, or Trash Culture Gone Avant-Garde
8:29 - The indie game scene
9:10 - DOOM, Gaming's Punk Rock Moment
10:53 - Sinclair and Acorn
13:04 - The Physical Struggle of British Home Development
14:18 - Conclusion

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Intro text animation by Draz:   / drazgames  
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Suda51 "Punk's Not Dead", Game Watch Impress (Google Translated) - https://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs...

The video game industry's ‘punk rock’ developer on the indie movement - https://mashable.com/2017/09/13/suda-...

Postmodernism and Punk Subculture: Cultures of Authenticity and Deconstruction (Ryan Moore, 2004) - https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Geeks Who Rocked The World: Documentary Looks Back At Origins Of The Computer Games Industry - https://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...

Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America (Michael Newman, 2017) - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/atari-age

DOOM was video gaming's punk moment - https://www.theguardian.com/technolog...

Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts (Elizabeth Wilson, 2000) - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bohemians-Gl...

Doom - Quartz Obsession - https://qz.com/email/quartz-obsession...



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Jeff Minter, Sandy Wright, Matthew Smith interview footage from From Bedrooms To Billions (check this out if you're interested in British retro, amazing stories here) - http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com/

DOOM footage from Sydia -    • Видео  

John Romero interview footage from Motherboard and Noclip -    • Meet John Romero: One of the Godfathe...      • John Romero's Irish Adventure  

BASIC programming footage from The Centre for Computing History -    • Starting BASIC with the BBC Microcomp...  

Suda51 interview footage from Extra Credits, toco toco, Game Informer -    • SUDA51, Game Creator (No More Heroes,...      • Suda51 Interview with James Portnow -...      • Suda51's Favorite Games Of 2013/ All ...  

Super Mario Bros footage from Basileous Productions -    • Super Mario Bros (NES) Level 1-1  

Ayame Blackburn footage from Kyle Brockman -    • Killer 7 - Ayame Blackburn  

Extra Killer7 footage from GoldenSpoon -    • Видео  

Nintendo E3 2003 footage from Gamespot -    • Nintendo E3 2003 Press Conference  

Making of MGS4 footage -    • MGS4 Documentary - Hideo Kojima's Gen...  

Senate hearing footage from Grooveraider -    • The Senate Hearing on Violent Video G...  

DOOM 2 trailer -    • Doom 2: Hell On Earth - John Romero T...  

DOOM WAD footage from emmanuel vargas -    • "Old school" Doom WAD mod (A must see)  

Ian Mackaye footage from Library of Congress -    • Ian MacKaye speaking about Skateboarding  

Bill Gates in DOOM footage -    • Bill Gates Doom  

Hover Bovver and Revenge of the Mutant Camels footage from DerSchmu -    • C64-Longplay - Hover Bovver -first 10...  

Poll Tax riot footage -    • Thatcher Poll Tax Riots 1990  

ZX Spectrum advert -    • ZX Spectrum 80's Advert  

Acorn Electron advert -    • Acorn Electron computer advert (1984)  

The Empire Strikes Back footage from Highretrogamelord -    • Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back fo...  

Chuckie Egg footage from Kieran Simkin -    • A&F Software - Chuckie Egg - BBC Micr...  

Elite footage from AdventuresInRetro =    • Elite - BBC Micro  

Production work by Nico Bleackley