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# Issue #4 Is Here!
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/issue-4-public-play/
- Published: 2011-07-06T08:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:39:47.000Z
- Description: Announcing the fourth issue of our magazine, this time we’re tackling public play! What you can expect: the crowd-drawing appeal of DDR, playing in the streets of San Francisco, guides to games you can play yourself, and much more.
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: Article, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Before Xbox and PlayStation, there were arcades, and before arcades, there were playgrounds. Before playgrounds? There was just play. From street games to arcade games, public joy to public humiliation, [Issue #4 of *Kill Screen*](http://shop.killscreendaily.com/products/issue-4-public-play?ref=killscreen.com) reveals how we’re playing together.

**Simon Parkin** witnesses a *Dance Dance Revolution* master hustling a crowd in London. **David Wolinsky** signs up for a *Donkey Kong* class taught by none other than Steve Wiebe (*The King of Kong*); can Wiebe get him to the kill screen? (Spoiler: He doesn’t.) **Jon Irwin** tells the troubled story of Nintendo’s first 3D console. **Brian Taylor** reports on real-life Quidditch—minus the magic, but with the brooms. **Kirk Hamilton** takes to the streets of San Francisco in the Go Game. **Filipe Salgado** reports from the libraries of Toronto, **Majed Athab** surveys cut-rate arcades in Manila, and **Mathias Crawford** takes us back in time to the sculptors, dreamers, and underage crooks behind San Francisco’s oldest playground. **Tracy Fullerton** introduces the concept of masterful play. And **Chris Baker** goes up against one of the biggest stars of professional gaming—with ego-crushing results.

We’ve got interviews, too! **Michael Abbott** interviews gamification doomsayer and ex-Disney Imagineer Jesse Schell, and **Jason Johnson** interviews Jim Babb, the designer of *Must Love Robots* and *Socks, Inc.* And because it’s not enough to read about games, **Lana Polansky** documents three street games you can play yourself.

**Written By:** Michael Abbott, Majed Athab, Chris Baker, Mathias Crawford, Tracy Fullerton, Kirk Hamilton, Jon Irwin, Jason Johnson, Brendan Keogh, Simon Parkin, Lana Polansky, Mark Richardson, Filipe Salgado, Brian Taylor, David Wolinsky

**Art By:** Wojtek Arciszewski, Ben Bunch, David Boni, Mary Connolly, Tim Denee, Mr. GIF, Ian Higginbotham, Sarah Jacoby, Kitsuney, Ryan Kuo, Duncan Mattocks, Rey Ortega, Nante Santamaria, Brian Taylor

*Image via [Seattle Municipal Archives](http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/?ref=killscreen.com)*