Before the crash : early video game history / edited by Mark J. P. Wolf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wolf, Mark J. P.

Series:

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--History.

Video games.

History.

Video games--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2012]

Contents:

Video Games Caught Up in History: Accessibility, Teleological Distortion, and Other Methodological Issues / Carl Therrien Therrien, Carl 9

What's Victoria Got To Do with It? Toward an Archaeology of Domestic Video Gaming / Erkki Huhtamo Huhtamo, Erkki 30

Ball-and-Paddle Consoles / Leonard Herman Herman, Leonard 53

Channel F for Forgotten: The Fairchild Video Entertainment System / Zach Whalen Whalen, Zach 60

The Video Game Industry Crash of 1977 / Mark J. P. Wolf Wolf, Mark J. P. 81

A Question of Character: Transmediation, Abstraction, and Identification in Early Games Licensed from Movies / Jessica Aldred Aldred, Jessica 90

Every Which Way But...: Reading the Atari Catalog / Sheila C. Murphy Murphy, Sheila C. 105

One-Bit Wonders: Video Game Sound before the Crash / Karen Collins Collins, Karen 119

The Rise and Fall of Cinematronics / Tim Skelly Skelly, Tim 138

Color-Cycled Space Fumes in the Pixel Particle Shockwave: The Technical Aesthetics of Defender and the Williams Arcade Platform, 1980-82 / Brett Camper Camper, Brett 168

Coin-Drop Capitalism: Economic Lessons from the Video Game Arcade / Carly A. Kocurek Kocurek, Carly A. 189

Early Online Gaming: BBSs and MUDs / Staci Tucker Tucker, Staci 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814334508

0814334504

9780814337226

0814337228

OCLC:

755704744