Dating Simulation Games: Romance, Love, and Sex in Virtual Japan

by Emily Taylor

This book serves as an introduction to Japanese dating-simulation games (dating-sim games) and as an examination of their function and place in Japanese popular culture and their reception in the United States. Based on theories of subjectivity and game playing, it examines how video games are attractive and addictive and focuses on one popular simulator, the tamagotchi, as associated with

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1719891206
• ISBN13: 9781719891202
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"