Racing the Beam The Atari Video Computer System

Name: Racing the Beam The Atari Video Computer System
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ISBN: 9780262012577

ISBN-10: 026201257X

ISBN-13: 9780262012577

Edition: 2009

Authors: Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost

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The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home video game market so completely that "Atari" became the generic term for a video game console. The Atari VCS was affordable and offered the flexibility of changeable cartridges. Nearly a thousand of these were created, the most significant of which established new techniques, mechanics, and even entire genres. This book offers a detailed and accessible study of this influential video game console from both computational and cultural perspectives. Studies of digital media have rarely investigated platformsthe systems underlying computing. This book (the first in a series of Platform Studies) does so, developing a critical approach that…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/9/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.21" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Nick Montfort is Associate Professor of Digital Media at MIT and the coauthor of Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (MIT Press, 2009).

Ian Bogost is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC, and the coauthor of Newsgames: Journalism at Play (MIT Press, 2010).



Series Foreword


Acknowledgments


Timeline



Stella



Combat



Adventure



Pac-Man



Yars' Revenge



Pitfall!



Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back



After the Crash


Afterword on Platform Studies


Notes


Bibliography


Index