ORDERING THE GAME. A LOOK AT THE FIRST REGULATION OF PUBLIC VIDEO GAMES OF VALPARAISO (1987)

Due to its tremendous commercial success, video games have become one of the main means of entertainment since the late 20th century throughout the capitalist world, and consequently the cities had to create rules of coexistence, order and behavior around them. This work explores the creation of the first regulation of public video games in the city of Valparaiso, Chile, during 1987 and its subsequent reforms, with the objective of observe how these types of games focused on leisure at the time of their introduction were transformed into gambling games over the course of a few decades.