Category: Fandom/Community/Reception
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Sonic (Franchise)
Developer: SegaPublisher: SegaRelease Year: 1991-PresentPlatform: Android, Arcade, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, iOS, Java ME, macOS, Mobile phones, Windows, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, PSP, PlayStation Vita, Genesis, Game Gear, Sega CD, Saturn, DreamcastMaster System, 32X, Pico, Leapster, LeapFrog Didj, Wii, Wii U, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox…
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El Paso, Elsewhere
Developer: Strange ScaffoldPublisher: Strange ScaffoldRelease Year: 2023Platform: PS, Win, XboxGenre: FPS, HorrorTaxonomy: Black Cultural Tradition, Black NPCs, Development, Fandom/Community/Reception, Intersectionality, Mechanics, Narrative Themes, Playable Black Characters, Politics/Ideology/History, Voice Acting/Motion Capture Neo-noir shooter where you play as James Savage and fight vampires and werewolves to save prisoners from your ex, Draculae, the lord of the vampires.…
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Black College Football: BCFX: The Xperience
Developer: Nerjyzed EntertainmentPublisher: Aspyr MediaRelease Year: 2006Platform: Win, Xbox 360Genre: SportsTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, Mechanics, Development, fandom/community/reception, Black cultural traditions A college football game that takes place on a series of HBI (Historically Black Institutions) campuses. Also includes two rhythm mini-games that depict the halftime show and the drum line challenge. interviews and other media…
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Basketball
Developer: AtariPublisher: AtariRelease Year: 1979Platform: Atari 2600Genre: SportsTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, fandom/community/reception One-on-one basketball game that can be played by one or two players. Game is played in two four minute halves. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Treachery in Beatdown City
Developer: NuChallengerPublisher: NuChallengerRelease Year: 2020Platform: Switch/WinGenre: Action, FighterTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black characters, Black Cultural traditions, politics/ ideology/ history; Narrative themes; fandom/reception/community; Intersectionality; mechanics In Beatdown City, after President Blake Obama is kidnapped by ninja terrorists and the police force is shut down, now-suspended police chief Antonio Santiago enlists the aid of his daughter Lisa and…
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The Sims (Franchise)
Developer: EAPublisher: EARelease Year: 2000-2023Platform: Android/BlackBerry 10/Blackberry Curve/Game Boy Advance/GameCube/iOS/iPod/Mac/N-Gage/Nintendo 3DS/Nintendo DS/PS2/PS3/PS4/PSP/WIN/WIN Phone/Wii/Xbox/Xbox 360/Xbox OneGenre: SimulationTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black NPCs; fandom / community / reception, significant Black cultural mods, robust character creation system, intersectionality Creating virtual people, “Sims”, who can live in a variety of different worlds. In this simulation you are charged with…
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Overwatch 2
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment, Iron GalaxyPublisher: Blizzard EntertainmentRelease Year: 2022Platform: PS4/PS5/Switch/Win/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/SGenre: FPSTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; fandom / community / reception The Overwatch heroes are called up once more to fight the second uprising of AI in a second Omnic Crisis. Squad based first person shooter. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Overwatch
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment, Iron GalaxyPublisher: Blizzard EntertainmentRelease Year: 2016/2019 (Switch)Platform: PS4/Switch/Win/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/S Genre: FPSTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; fandom / community / reception, Set sixty years into the future of a fictionalized Earth, humans developed Omnics, robots with AI. To combat the threat and restore order, the United Nations formed the Overwatch, an international…
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NBA Street
Developer: NuFX, EA CanadaPublisher: EA Sports BIGRelease Year: 2001 (PS2), 2002 (GameCube)Platform: GameCube/PS2Genre: SportsTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; voice acting/motion capture; Black NPCs; Black cultural traditions; Narrative themes; robust character creation system; fandom/community/reception; mechanics; anti-Blackness/regressive characterizations Combining the talent and big names of the NBA with the attitude and atmosphere of streetball, you try to score…
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Mike Tyson’s Punch Out
Developer: NintendoPublisher: NintendoRelease Year: 1987Platform: 3DS/Arcade/NES/PlayChoice-10/Wii/Wii UGenre: SportsTaxonomy: Black NPCs; voice acting/motion capture; fandom/community/reception; mechanics; Anti-blackness/ regressive characterizations Featuring a boxer named Little Mac, dreaming of being a heavyweight champion, he works his way through three main circuits before earning his shot at the championship belt. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List