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The media snatcher : PC/CORE/TURBO/ENGINE/GRAFX/16/CDROM2/SUPER/DUO/ARCADE/RX / Carl Therrien.
Lippincott Library HD9993.E452 T54 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Therrien, Carl, author.
- Series:
- Platform studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nihon Denki Kabushiki Kaisha--History.
- Nihon Denki Kabushiki Kaisha.
- Video games industry--History.
- Video games industry.
- Video games--History.
- Video games.
- History.
- TurboGrafx video games.
- Microcomputers--History.
- Microcomputers.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Is There a Platform in This Book? p. 1
- Cutting Edges p. 3
- Expanding the Platform p. 4
- A Method (Hardly) p. 6
- Kusoge Love p. 14
- Grounding History p. 16
- 1 The Bit Wars p. 19
- The Fog of War p. 22
- Stories They Made Up? p. 24
- Signature Visuals p. 28
- On the Edge of Fury p. 33
- The Next Generation p. 35
- 2 Enter the Glitch p. 43
- What's Wrong with This Picture? p. 45
- Mountains beyond Mountains p. 47
- Electric Blue p. 52
- Gameworld on a Wire p. 54
- Picture Perfect p. 58
- Black Sox Obsessions p. 61
- 3 Anatomy of a Cutscene p. 65
- Tragically Comic p. 69
- Do It Hardcore p. 73
- Love in the Age of Corporeal Disintegration p. 78
- Loaded Guns p. 83
- Growing Pains p. 86
- 4 The Media Snatcher p. 91
- CD-ROM Antics p. 93
- A Doll of Plastic and Sound p. 96
- The Case of the FMV's Curse p. 100
- Land Slides p. 104
- Death of the Gamer p. 109
- Monster Mashup p. 113
- 5 Intromission p. 117
- The Straight Storyworld p. 119
- Bigger in Japan p. 125
- Any Which Way You Can p. 130
- Add It Up p. 135
- Catch On Everywhere p. 137
- Discerning Animals p. 139.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262042901
- 0262042908
- OCLC:
- 1088600488
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