| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 255 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Contemporary approaches to film and media series
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Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Video games -- History.
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Video games. |
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History. |
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Video games -- Social aspects.
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Video games -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wolf, Mark J. P.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Before the crash. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©2012 9780814334508 (DLC) 2012001474 (OCoLC)755704744 |
| ISBN |
9780814337226 (electronic book) |
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0814337228 (electronic book) |
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9780814334508 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0814334504 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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