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May 31, 2003

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GDC 2001 Video:
Masaya Matsuura's "What Are The Cultural Borderlines Of Games?"

Available for the first time to the public thanks to newly discovered conference source tapes, we present Masaya Matsuura's lecture from the 2001 Game Developers Conference.

The technical differences among hardware standards and platforms are no longer a major obstacle in videogame production, and the focus is shifting even more sharply to software. Can videogames do what no other medium in history has ever achieved and evolve into a universal culture in their own right? It is from this type of broad perspective that Matsuura, the producer/composer/musician behind Parappa the Rapper, explores the full potential of games.

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