Racing the beam : the Atari Video computer system / Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost.
Racing the beam : the Atari Video computer system / Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost.
Racing the beam : the Atari Video computer system / Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.
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N794.8/24
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English
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xii, 180 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Timeline -- 1. Stella -- 2. Combat -- 3. Adventure -- 4. Pac-Man -- 5. Yars' Revenge -- 6. Pitfall! -- 7. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back -- 8. After the Crash -- Afterword on Platform Studies.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
c2009.
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Adventure, for example, was the first game to represent a virtual space larger than the screen (anticipating the boundless virtual spaces of such later games as World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto), by allowing the player to walk off one side into another space; and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was an early instance of interaction between...
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Racing the beam : the Atari Video computer system / Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost.
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Platform studies.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-167) and index.
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c2009.
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N794.8/24
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74VM0eRRyKK3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM0eRRyKK3
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9780262012577 (hardcover : alk. paper)
026201257X (hardcover : alk. paper)
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794.8
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991001904459702626
