Before the crash: early video game history
edited by Mark J.P. Wolf
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- E-Book
- Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2012]
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- ©2012
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- Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Mark J.P. Wolf
- Video games caught up in history: accessibility, teleological distortion, and other methodological issues / Carl Therrien
- What's Victoria got to do with it? Toward an archaeology of domestic video gaming / Erkki Huhtamo
- Ball-and-paddle consoles / Leonard Herman
- Channel F for forgotten: The Fairchild video entertainment system / Zach Whalen
- The video game industry crash of 1977 / Mark J.P. Wolf
- A question of character: transmediation, abstraction, and identification in early games licensed from movies / Jessica Aldred
- Every which way but: reading the Atari catalog / Sheila C. Murphy
- One-bit wonders: video game sound before the crash / Karen Collins
- The rise and fall of cinematronics / Tim Skelly
- Color-cycled space fumes in the pixel particle shockwave: the technical aesthetics of defender and the Williams arcade platform, 1980-82 / Brett Camper
- Coin-drop capitalism: economic lessons from the video game Arcade / Carly A. Kocurek
- Early online gaming: BBSs and MUDs / Staci Tucker
- Appendix A. Video Game history: getting things straight / Ralph H. Baer
- Appendix B The Magnavox Co. v. Activision, Inc.: 1985 WL 9469 (N.D. Cal. 1985) / Ross A. Dannenberg.
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- Languages:
- English
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- Item content: English
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- Print version: Before the crash (Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©2012 — ISBN 9780814334508; LCCN 2012001474; OCLC Number 755704744)
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record. - Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 255 pages) : illustrations.
- Digital Characteristics:
- text file
- Call Numbers:
- GV1469.3 B44 2012eb
- ISBNs:
- 9780814337226 (electronic bk.)
0814337228 (electronic bk.)
9780814334508 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]
0814334504 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid] - OCLC Numbers:
- 794667914