Atari age : the emergence of video games in America / Michael Z. Newman.
By: Newman, Michael Z [author.]
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Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2017]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2017]Description: 1 PDF (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262338189.Subject(s): Video games -- United States | Video games industry -- United States | Video games | Video games industry | United States | Adaptive arrays | Automobiles | Bibliographies | Birds | Companies | Computers | Consumer electronics | Cultural differences | Entertainment industry | Ethics | Fixtures | Games | History | IEEE merchandise | Indexes | Industries | Libraries | Media | Microcomputers | Motion pictures | Mouth | Navigation | Pediatrics | Presses | Rivers | Space exploration | TV | Urban areasGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Atari age.DDC classification: 794.8 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-241) and index.
Introduction: early video games and new media history -- 1. Good clean fun: the origins of the video arcade -- 2. "Don't watch tv tonight. Play it!' Early video games and television -- 3. Space invaders: masculine play in the media room -- 4. Video games as computers, computers as toys -- Video kids endangered and improved -- 6. Pac-man fever.
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