This special issue of Feminist Media Histories was solicited based on an SCMS panel I’d organized in 2018.  In addition to articles, it includes interviews with several women game designers who are not well-known in the U.S. despite being highly influential.

Table of Contents:

Editor’s Introduction: It Isn’t Difficult to Find Feminist Game Studies, but Can We Find a Feminist Game History?

Carly A. Kocurek

Negg(at)ing the Game Studies Subject: An Affective History of the Field 

Amanda Phillips

There and Back Again: Tolkien, Gamers, and the Remediation of Exclusion through Fantasy Media 

Emma Vossen

Plundered Hearts: Infocom, Romance, and the History of Feminist Game Design 

Anastasia Salter

Replaying Video Game History as a Mixtape of Black Feminist Thought 

TreaAndrea M. Russworm; Samantha Blackmon

The Uncredited: Work, Women, and the Making of the U.S. Computer Game Industry 

Laine Nooney