Running Head: Video Game Nostalgia and Retro Gaming

Wulf, Tim; Bowman, Nicholas David; Rieger, Diana; Velez, John A.; Breuer, Johannes

doi:10.17645/mac.v6i2.1317

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“…Games are one of the most frequently encountered forms of entertainment in modern society. Adults today spend more time playing video games than previous generations have (Williams et al, 2008), and this is likely due to the fact that most adults grew up playing video games (Wulf et al, 2018).…”

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Cross-Cultural Analysis of Gamer Identity: A Comparison of the United States and Poland

Ćwil

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2020

Simulation & Gaming

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Who is a gamer? What kind of people are perceived to be gamers? And finally – who perceives themselves as a gamer? In this article the authors attempt to answer these three questions from a multinational perspective. Background. Games are nowadays one of the most frequently encountered forms of entertainment and constitute an ever-increasing part of many people’s day-to-day lives. With the rising popularity of video games, there is a need to conduct a research concerning gamer identity and to find out who perceives themselves as a gamer. The aim of this study is to compare the results of the survey conducted in two different countries to better understand the characteristics of players that self-identified as gamers. Methods. The quantitative study was conducted in two countries – Poland and the United States – in order to research gamer identity. The questionnaire consisted of questions about the self-identification as a gamer, time spent playing video games, types of games played, and the platforms used. It was conducted among 223 students who play video games. Results. The results show that there are both similarities and differences in the meaning of gamer identity between Poland and the United States. People who consider themselves gamers generally spend more time playing games than non-gamers regardless of the country. However, some differences can be spotted between Poland and the U.S. concerning among others types of games played, used platforms or different styles of playing video games. Limitations and further research. The main problem in the study was the limited age range in the sample. In the future it seems valuable to include people of different age groups to broaden the study of self-identified gamer identity.

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Cross-Cultural Analysis of Gamer Identity: A Comparison of the United States and Poland

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2020

Simulation & Gaming

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“…La prégnance de la nostalgie dans ces pratiques peut être considérée comme un facteur expliquant le succès du retrogaming selon Wulf et al (2018), ouvrant notamment des perspectives de recherche sur le rôle encore méconnu du matériel dans ce cadre. La nostalgie désigne ici un « désir de retourner à une époque passée », pouvant « s'articuler à d'autres temporalités » (Niemeyer 2016), pouvant être associé à des activités créatives, et relié à la notion d'identité et à l'appartenance à une communauté (Niemeyer 2014 ;.…”

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“…La nostalgie désigne ici un « désir de retourner à une époque passée », pouvant « s'articuler à d'autres temporalités » (Niemeyer 2016), pouvant être associé à des activités créatives, et relié à la notion d'identité et à l'appartenance à une communauté (Niemeyer 2014 ;. Nous interrogerons ici la place de la nostalgie dans les activités de joueurs en tant qu'« émotion consciente » et complexe, en la considérant comme « principalement positive et fondamentalement sociale » (Sedikides et al, 2015, p. 190 ;Wulf et al, 2018).…”

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De l'étagère à l'écran. Les objets du jeu vidéo vintage sur YouTube

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2019

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Cet article interroge la place des objets des jeux vidéo anciens (des années 1970 à 2000) dans des vidéos produites par des vidéastes pro-am sur YouTube. Dans une étude qualitative, nous avons analysé d’un point de vue info-communicationnel le contenu de vingt et une chaînes proposant un partage de connaissances sur le retrogaming. Les formes audiovisuelles identifiées accordent une place considérable aux objets (logiciels, consoles), mobilisés à l’écran pour leurs usages ludiques, et/ou en tant que pièces de collection. Divers positionnements s’affirment, dans lesquels la nostalgie des vidéastes contribue à établir une cohérence éditoriale, à intensifier le partage de l’expérience vidéoludique et à légitimer la prise de parole des vidéastes. Certaines chaînes peuvent être envisagées comme des médiations amateurs comportant des caractéristiques des médiations orales du patrimoine, à travers un discours personnel et une gestualité denses permettant d’animer l’environnement matériel du jeu ancien.

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“…These authors also describe how nostalgia can be a source of meaning in life, which is also conceptually connected to henosis. One way that nostalgia can be elicited is by external experiences that remind people of pleasant and meaningful experiences from the past (Sedikides et al, 2015), and this has been shown to be a motivating reason why some video games are played (Wulf, Bowman, Rieger, Velez, & Breuer, 2018). Given that henotic experiences tap into the very foundational assumptions people have about their world, it seems likely that reflecting back on these experiences should result in nostalgia, which makes this good measure of predictive validity.…”

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“…Meaningfulness-at least, as the term is used colloquially-can conceivably refer to numerous types of experiences that are subjectively described as such. It is worth noting that meaningful experiences in games often seem to involve playing and experiencing games with other people (De Schutter & Vanden Abeele, 2010;Oliver et al, 2016), and that games have been socially oriented (Bowman, 2018), and thus potentially meaningful, long before developers began focusing on engendering insight, poignancy and contemplation. Unsurprisingly, many scholars have rightly pointed out that the notion of meaningfulness as a media experience is quite multifaceted (Wirth, Hofer, & Schramm, 2012), and that further research and theorizing is needed to account for its manifestations and underlying psychological components.…”

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Henosis Experience in Gaming: A Metric for Adjustments to Global Schema and Appraised Meaning

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Meaningfulness is a media gratification distinct from enjoyment characterized by feelings of insight, contemplation, and poignancy. Video games, too, can elicit experiences of meaningfulness, but the mechanisms underlying meaningfulness are unclear and in need of further exploration. Adapting work from existential psychology, this research proposes the construct of henosis as one mechanism that might contribute to meaningful video game experiences. Henosis is a response to experiences in which a person's fundamental schema about the world (global schema) is challenged by an event which contradicts this schema. Henosis describes the process by which this discrepancy is resolved via either reappraising the meaning of the event, or altering one's global schema. In order to test the existence of this new construct, this research conducted a series of focus groups asking participants to describe meaningful video game experiences in which they experienced something unexpected. A thematic analysis revealed that video game players do indeed experience henosis while playing video games, and that players will engage in both reappraisal and schema adjustment when encountering schema-violating video game events. Next, a metric to measure experiences of henosis was constructed, using themes from the focus groups as a framework for item development. After administering the item pool via an online survey and conducting an exploratory factor analysis, two henotic factors emerged: schema adjustment and experience adjustment. Validation measures confirmed that both of these factors were related to experiencing meaningfulness in video games. One implication of this factor's illumination is that players do not need to alter their mental structures for normality or for their ideals in order to have a meaningful experience, and the act of fitting a surprising experience into an existing mental structure is (or can be) meaningful.

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Running Head: Video Game Nostalgia and Retro Gaming

Cited by 36 publications

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Cross-Cultural Analysis of Gamer Identity: A Comparison of the United States and Poland

Cross-Cultural Analysis of Gamer Identity: A Comparison of the United States and Poland

De l'étagère à l'écran. Les objets du jeu vidéo vintage sur YouTube

Henosis Experience in Gaming: A Metric for Adjustments to Global Schema and Appraised Meaning

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