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teaching with video games
shateredsoul:
I might have my students play a video game for a class. I was thinking of having them play an old game via an emulator. Is this illegal? It seems like it would be, but I recall some guy teaching a class on role playing games at some university. That guy must have taught via emulators.. I doubt he was able to secure original copies of the games he chose.
The main point of the exercise is for them to play a video game, and come back the next day and share their experience with learning how to play the game, the conventions within the game, and , if the game allows, portrayal of the characters based on gender (or race).
05SRT4:
It does sound a little risky, have you thought of any web based games. Also if you end up doing the Emu side how would you get the media to the students? e-mail cd's?
jimmy2x2x:
If you list the games you are interested in, maybe there are alternatives that offer a good rendition of the games - like jakks or namco tv games for example
Well Fed Games:
--- Quote from: shateredsoul on February 24, 2012, 02:38:47 pm ---portrayal of the characters based on gender (or race).
--- End quote ---
Ms. Pac Man has a bow.
seriously, though, it depends on what type of game you want them to experience. There is plenty of freeware out there to keep it nice and legal.
Vigo:
Are you planning on having this on your personal computer, or on the student machines? If it is just your machine, than I don't think it would be any more illegal than having it for personal use to begin with.
I can swear that some teacher here has a Mame machine in their classroom, does not charge for use of course...I might just be imagining it though.
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