Before the Crash

Name: Before the Crash | Early Video Game History
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Early Video Game History

Mark J. P. Wolf(Autor*in)

Wayne State University Press

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Erschienen am 15. Juni 2012

269 Seiten

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Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword by Ed Rotberg
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes
Video Games Caught Up in History: Accessibility, Teleological Distortion, and Other Methodological Issues
Look Back in Anger: Accessibility Issues in the Computer Age
Emulation and Technical Proficiency
The Incomplete Object
Teleological Illusion: From Early Cinema to Early Video Games
Reconfiguring History
Notes
What's Victoria Got To Do with It? Toward an Archaeology of Domestic Video Gaming
Back to the Future, or Pre-Positioning the Video Game Console
The Home and the Media: Early Connections
The Stereoscope: The First True Domestic Media Device
A Tactile and Interactive Relationship with Domestic Media Develops
The Boy Showman Entertains the Family
Do It Yourself-In Good and In Bad
Conclusion: Playing Pranks on Winky
Notes
Ball-and-Paddle Consoles
Notes
Channel F for Forgotten: The Fairchild Video Entertainment System
History
Channel F, From the Bottom Up
Paradigms of Control
Easter Eggs
Conclusion
Notes
The Video Game Industry Crash of 1977
Early Rapid Growth
A System on a Chip
The Crash
The Industry Bounces Back
Notes
A Question of Character: Transmediation, Abstraction, and Identification in Early Games Licensed from Movies
Early Adventures in Movie-Game Convergence
A Question of Character: Abstraction and Identification
Conclusion: A Question of Character, After the Crash and Beyond
Notes
Every Which Way But . . . : Reading the Atari Catalog
Nostalgia, Ephemera, and the Cultures of Gaming
Digital Nostalgia
Input Codes
. . . But Loose?
Notes
One-Bit Wonders: Video Game Sound before the Crash
How Sound Was Made
How Sound Was Used
Key Influential Games for Sound up to 1983: A Series of Firsts
Conclusion
Notes
The Rise and Fall of Cinematronics
A Quick Buck
Space Wars, or Is It War?
Vectorbeam and Me
Crossed Swords
Vectorbeam
Crossover
Late Nights at Cinematronics
Last Gasps
Another Grab Bag of Games and Legal Entanglements
WMS Wins the Games, I Sign the Papers
PGD, Trivia Master, and the Real End of Cinematronics
Notes
Color-Cycled Space Fumes in the Pixel Particle Shockwave: The Technical Aesthetics of Defender and the Williams Arcade Platform, 1980-82
Notes
Coin-Drop Capitalism: Economic Lessons from the Video Game Arcade
Sight
Sound
Play
Reflect
The Cost of Play
Arcade as Deviant Site
Arcades in Economic Context
Pinball and Modernity
Play As Training
Computerization and Economic Upheaval
Conclusion
Notes
Early Online Gaming: BBSs and MUDs
Bulletin Board Systems
Multi-User Dungeons
BBSs, MUDs, and Economics
Notes
Appendix A: Video Game History: Getting Things Straight
Appendix B: The Magnavox Co. v. Activision, Inc.: 1985 WL 9469 (N.D. Cal. 1985)
Contributors
Index
BackCover

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