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IT’S NOT JUST A PLATFORM GAME, IT’S AN ADVENTURE: The European Invention of the Action-Adventure Game 1983-1990

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Was the action-adventure game was invented in Europe? This presentation argues that much of 1980s European home computer game history was an extended development of an action-adventure tradition predating later games such as Nintendo’s Metroid. Both home computer and European video game history is often forgotten (Navarro-Remesal and Pérez-Latorre 2021, 15) and this presentation aims to recover the particularly central history of the action-adventure game.

Source: Architecture, Design and Conservation (Aarhus School of Architecture, Design School Kolding, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK))

DOI: 10.26263/88h0-kb33

Author: Juul, Jesper

Institution: Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation

Language: English

Topic: Digital Games and Media

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4412213383

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