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Author: Aurelia Brandenburg

“On the other hand, the girls are quite discreet”: Strip-Poker-Reviews in early German Gaming Magazines

by Aurelia Brandenburg This post (“’On the other hand, the girls are quite discreet’1: Strip-Poker-Reviews in early German Gaming Magazines”) is an English translation of a paper previously published in German at Spiel|Formen following the conference “Gender & Spielkultur” in Siegen, Germany in July 2023. This is an adapted version…

The dawn of the German Football Management Games: Starbyte Super Soccer (1991)

by Beat Suter The following text originally appeared here. Starbyte Super Soccer is one of those early football management games (genre: strategy). The name had to be chosen that way because there were other products with the same name Super Soccer, for example from Nintendo. And Starbyte itself already had…