Title
Smashing Friends In Slidell
Files
Interviewee
Mike Willman
Description
Vincent Delucca is an active member of a Super Smash Brothers: Melee group of competitive gamers in Slidell, Louisiana. Melee players build community through intensive training in preparation for local, national, and global tournaments. Delucca contextualizes this gaming phenomenon by explaining the contentious history between player communities and parent company Nintendo. Interviewee Mike Willman lends insight into the development of the Slidell Melee group and how its members care for one another.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Publisher
Neighborhood Story Project
City
New Orleans
Keywords
Gaming; Video games; Competition; Community; Nintendo
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana; Slidell, Louisiana; Lacombe, Mississippi
Disciplines
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Recommended Citation
Delucca, Vincent, "Smashing Friends In Slidell" (2017). 8.Adventure. 2.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/adventure/2
Comments
The ethnographies in Guide to South Louisiana were created by students in Rachel Breunlin’s “Storytelling and Culture” course for the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Orleans in the Spring of 2017.