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Intellivision : how a videogame system battled Atari and almost bankrupted Barbie® / Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boellstorff, Tom, 1969- author.
- Soderman, Braxton, author.
- Series:
- Platform Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mattel, Inc--History.
- Mattel, Inc.
- Video games--Design.
- Video games.
- Video games industry--History.
- Video games industry.
- Atari 2600 (Video game console)--History.
- Atari 2600 (Video game console).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "A platform studies approach to the Intellivision computer system"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Intelligent Visions
- Part I: Formations
- From toys to technology at Mattel
- The master component
- The keyboard component
- Mattel's marketing magic
- Part II: Practices
- Ladders of game production
- Becoming a videogame programmer at Mattel
- Constraints, trade-offs, and affordances
- Boom
- Part III: Extensions
- Intellivoice
- The ECS
- Playcable
- Transplatform
- Crash
- Aftercrash.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-38055-2
- 0-262-38054-4
- OCLC:
- 1419797205
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