The Gamebreakers, insane dribble moves, huge rejections the NBA Street series had everything you’d want in a basketball arcade game. NBA Street, Volume 2 (Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube)
A lot of the good Looney Tunes characters are featured, the game play is simple and captivating, the soundtrack is fantastic, and it is just plain fun. It’s 2-on-2 basketball with gems the players can collect on the court to buy in-game power-ups and distractions. Sure it’s not for the hardcore basketball gamer or anyone over the age of 15 really, but I’ve never had anybody play this game and not love it. Instead, what’s the best basketball game of all time? With 2K Sports owning the basketball video game market right now, it’s not much of a contest as to what the best basketball game currently is. Sometimes a video game drowns you in nostalgia, giving you no choice but to squeal with laughter at the memories of sheer joy you had with the game. In a moment of #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, and efforts to transform current political realities, Woke Gaming illustrates the power and potential of video games to foster change and become a catalyst for social justice.It’s not a bad thing to be a child every once in a while. From Anna Anthropy�s Keep Me Occupied to Momo Pixel�s Hair, Nah, video games can reveal the power and potential for marginalized communities to resist, and otherwise challenge dehumanizing representations inside and outside of game spaces. The contributors of these essays seek to identify strategies to detox gaming culture and orient players and gamers toward progressive ends. Whether visible in the persistent color line that shapes the production, dissemination, and legitimization of dominant stereotypes within the industry itself, or in the dehumanizing representations often found within game spaces, many video games perpetuate injustice and mirror the inequities and violence that permeate society as a whole.ĭrawing from groundbreaking research on counter and oppositional gaming and from popular games such as World of Warcraft and Tomb Raider, Woke Gaming examines resistance to problematic spaces of violence, discrimination, and microaggressions in gaming culture.
From #Gamergate to the 2016 election, to the daily experiences of marginalized perspectives, gaming is entangled with mainstream cultures of systematic exploitation and oppression.
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