In the second episode of the season, History Education student Keith Kuehn joins Dr. Manamee Guha to discuss the ways Nintendo and the beloved character of Mario transformed the culture of video games in America.
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Selected Bibliography:
Kondo, Koji. “VGL: Koji Kondo Interview.” Interviewed by Chris Kohler. Wired Magazine (2007). https://www.wired.com/2007/03/vgl-koji-kondo-/.
Kohler, Chris. Power Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life. Indianapolis: BradyGAMES, 2005.
Ryan, Jeff. Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America. New York: Penguin Press, 2011.
Consalvo, Mia. Atari to Zelda: Japan’s Videogames in a Global Context. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016.
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