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Summary:

"Charting the material and technological history of video games, from the 1950s to the present"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• 1. Epic origins
• 2. Era of innovation
• 3. Atari
• 4. Call to adventure
• 5. Arcade projects
• 6. The first auteur
• 7. The renaissance
• 8. Dialing up
• 9. An American master
• 10. World of warcraft
• 11. Trigger warnings
• 12. Exile and the kingdom
• 13. New auteurs
• 14. The art question
• 15. Restart
• Appendix: My 11 favorite games.

Author/Creator:

Ervin, Andrew , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Bit by bit: how video games transformed our world [by Ervin, A.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Bit by bit [by Ervin, A.] (New York, NY : Basic Books, 2017 — ISBN 9780465039708; LCCN 2017002165; OCLC Number 961003982)

Subjects:

Video games — History

Video games — Technological innovations

Video games

Technological innovations

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 290 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GV1469.3 .E78 2017eb

ISBNs:

9780465096589 (electronic bk.)
0465096581 (electronic bk.)
9781541697683 (electronic bk.)
1541697685 (electronic bk.)
9780465039708 (hardback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017019819

OCLC Numbers:

984512222