Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System more books like this

by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost

The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home video game market so completely that 'Atari' became the generic term for a video game console. The Atari VCS was affordable and offered the flexibility of changeable cartridges. Nearly a thousand of these were created, the most significant of which established new techniques, mechanics, and even ...

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Medium of the Video Game more books like this

by Mark J P Wolf (Editor), Ralph H Baer (Foreword by)

Over a mere three decades, the video game has become the entertainment medium of choice for millions of people, who now spend more time in the interactive virtual world of games than they do in watching movies or even television. The release of new games or game-playing equipment, such as the PlayStation 2, generates great excitement and even ...

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Video Kids: Making Sense of Nintendo more books like this

by Prof. Eugene F Provenzo, Jr.

In video arcades and family rooms across America, children wielding joysticks cluster around display screens for hours playing video games. Like computers video games are now an integral part of the educational, social and cultural experience of childhood and in this book Eugene Provenzo explores the meaning of this phenomenon. Because of its ...

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