Very interesting article about virtual space

http://sac.sagepub.com/content/9/3/313.abstract

http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=22

"In contrast to Jet Set Radio Future, the "rules of orientation" in Shenmue II, a quest-based adventure game, centre on the urban myth of the male martial arts practitioner who seeks an alternative to, or engages in lines of flight from the world of commodified social relations. The player?s entry into the diegetic world of the game, a more realistically orientated visual regime, is already informed, as is the design of the game itself, by Hong Kong and Japanese cinema, the constant recourse of children?s television to martial arts themes and the innumerable martial arts videogames which have gone before. The decision-making process in the game is keyed to and accompanied by the unfolding of this chapter of Ryo?s life-story. In other words, the topological field of this cityspace game is charged in some considerable measure by myth in the same way that Lash argues the space of the post-modern city is grounded through the stories we tell about it.
Shenmue II has a correlate in games such as Myst or text adventure games such as the Zork series and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, with fast-twitch extensions. The avatar, Ryo, arrives in Hong Kong, he is a stranger in search of the Dragon Mirror that was stolen by the martial arts mafia who also caused his father?s death. His goal is to recover the Dragon Mirror and avenge the death of his father, and he is forced to negotiate the unfamiliar city of Hong Kong (earning money, using maps, interacting with the city dwellers to get information). The avatar is in much the same situation as anyone arriving for the first time in a new city with limited resources."

http://rosesavannahs.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/far-cry-2/ Also very interesting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road a possible read

http://www.philosophynow.org/issues/58/The_Death_of_Postmodernism_And_Beyond hmm confuses the meaning of postmodernism for me...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PostModernism?from=Main.PostModern This could be useful today!

Solar quest and Gun lord

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Solar_and_the_Great_Architects

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunlord

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variations_of_the_Sega_Mega_Drive#Sega_Mega_Drive_derived_hardware
I think ives played on this Wondermega before...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Multi-Mega
Woah, a sega genesis portable cd player, nice!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shining_the_Holy_Ark
get this now!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomguy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game.com
interesting