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Pirates of the Helvetian: Software Piracy and Swiss Gaming Cultures before 2000

by Arno Görgen, Addrich Mauch & Kevin Negele

How did game piracy shape Swiss gaming culture in the 1980s and 1990s? With interviews from the CH Ludens sub-project Swiss Gamescapes+, we dive deep into copy parties, floppy-disk economies, and the social, technological, and cultural grounds of early game sharing.

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