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Nature of arcade games

Gao, Yuexian and Liu, Chang and Gao, Naying and Khalid, M. N. A. and Iida, Hiroyuki

Entertainment Computing · vol. 41 · pp. 100469 · 2022

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Gao, Yuexian and Liu, Chang and Gao, Naying and Khalid, M. N. A. and Iida, Hiroyuki. “Nature of arcade games.” Entertainment Computing 41 (2022): 100469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2021.100469

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@article{gao2022nature,
  author  = {Gao, Yuexian and Liu, Chang and Gao, Naying and Khalid, M. N. A. and Iida, Hiroyuki},
  title   = {Nature of arcade games},
  journal = {Entertainment Computing},
  volume  = {41},
  pages   = {100469},
  year    = {2022},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.entcom.2021.100469},
}