Matthew Thomas Payne is Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, USA. He is author of Playing War: Military Video Games after 9/ 11 (2016), co-author of Ultima & Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game (2024) and is co-editor of How to Play Video Games (2019), Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence (2011) and Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games (2009).

These chapters contain a wealth of historical information and cultural insight that will make it invaluable to any researchers of public play, games studies, or arcade spaces ... Eugene Jarvis: King of the Arcade speaks to the past, the present, and the future of America’s entertainment landscape.

• PrefaceForewordAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Sex, Drugs, and Arcade-sploitation2. Challenging Design: The Making of Defender3. Designing Challenges: Post-Defender Difficulty and the Rise of the Arcader4. Coin-Op Carnivalesque and Digitized Dystopias5. Coin-opted Attractions in the Post-Arcade Era6. In His Own Words: A Conversation with Eugene Jarvis7. Conclusion: King of the ArcadeGameographyReferencesIndex