Arcade Fever The Fan's Guide To The Golden Age Of Video Games
Arcade Fever The Fan's Guide To The Golden Age Of Video Games

Author: John Sellers

Publisher: Running Press

Published: 2001-08-21

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780762409372

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Arcade Fever is a full-color illustrated history of video arcade games, with tributes to more than 50 classic games like Pong, Space Invaders, Pac Man, Q-Bert, Frogger, and TRON. Learn which game caused a yen shortage in Japan -- and which games inspired breakfast cereals, Saturday-morning cartoons, episodes of Seinfeld,and #1 pop-music singles. Meet the visionary musicians, writers, animators, cabinet artists, and other unsung heroes of the video game industry. The perfect gift for anyone who spent their childhood in video arcades, Arcade Fever is a pop-culture nostalgia trip you won't want to miss! John Sellers writes for Entertainment Weekly, Premiere, TV Guide, and other national magazines. He is also the author of Pop Culture Aptitude Test: Rad, 80s Version. He was the World Champion of Donkey Kong in 1983 and appeared on the television show "That's Incredible!"

Arcade Fever The Fan's Guide To The Golden Age Of Video Games
Arcade Fever The Fan's Guide To The Golden Age Of Video Games

Author: John Sellers

Publisher: Running Press

Published: 2001-08-21

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780762409372

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Arcade Fever is a full-color illustrated history of video arcade games, with tributes to more than 50 classic games like Pong, Space Invaders, Pac Man, Q-Bert, Frogger, and TRON. Learn which game caused a yen shortage in Japan -- and which games inspired breakfast cereals, Saturday-morning cartoons, episodes of Seinfeld,and #1 pop-music singles. Meet the visionary musicians, writers, animators, cabinet artists, and other unsung heroes of the video game industry. The perfect gift for anyone who spent their childhood in video arcades, Arcade Fever is a pop-culture nostalgia trip you won't want to miss! John Sellers writes for Entertainment Weekly, Premiere, TV Guide, and other national magazines. He is also the author of Pop Culture Aptitude Test: Rad, 80s Version. He was the World Champion of Donkey Kong in 1983 and appeared on the television show "That's Incredible!"

Hey! Listen!
Hey! Listen!

Author: Steve McNeil

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781472261366

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A history of the golden period of computer games from the creator of Go 8 Bit. This is a story of obsession, full of tales of Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Mario, Sonic, 3D Wolf, Lemmings and Worms. It will also answer important questions about the golden age

The Golden Age of Video Games
The Golden Age of Video Games

Author: Roberto Dillon

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1439873240

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This book focuses on the history of video games, consoles, and home computers from the very beginning until the mid-nineties, which started a new era in digital entertainment. The text features the most innovative games and introduces the pioneers who developed them. It offers brief analyses of the most relevant games from each time period. An epilogue covers the events and systems that followed this golden age while the appendices include a history of handheld games and an overview of the retro-gaming scene.

Classic Video Games
Classic Video Games

Author: Brian R. Eddy

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-07-20

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 0747811083

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In the early 1970s, video arcade games sprung to life in the form of Pong, Space Invaders, Asteroids, and Pac-Man, and if you were lucky enough to have an Atari system you could play Frogger or Galaga at home. By the 1980s, arcade and video games were entrenched as a pop culture phenomenon and were ubiquitous. But as quickly as the form took flight it began to change with the advent of hand-held games and more sophisticated home-gaming. Brian Eddy here traces the evolution of arcade video games, giving readers an inside look at the stratospheric rise-and transformation-of the industry.

Racing the Beam
Racing the Beam

Author: Nick Montfort

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2020-02-25

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0262539764

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A study of the relationship between platform and creative expression in the Atari VCS, the gaming system for popular games like Pac-Man and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. 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 platforms—the systems underlying computing. This book, the first in a series of Platform Studies, does so, developing a critical approach that examines the relationship between platforms and creative expression. Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost discuss the Atari VCS itself and examine in detail six game cartridges: Combat, Adventure, Pac-Man, Yars' Revenge, Pitfall!, and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. They describe the technical constraints and affordances of the system and track developments in programming, gameplay, interface, and aesthetics. Adventure, for example, was the first game to represent a virtual space larger than the screen (anticipating the boundless virtual spaces of such later games as World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto), by allowing the player to walk off one side into another space; and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was an early instance of interaction between media properties and video games. Montfort and Bogost show that the Atari VCS—often considered merely a retro fetish object—is an essential part of the history of video games.

The Golden Age of Video Games
The Golden Age of Video Games

Author: Harry Parker

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2023-08-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Dive into the fascinating realm of video games' past with "The Golden Age of Video Games: History, Impact, and Nostalgia", a special report that whisks you back in time to an era of innovation, imagination, and 8-bit wonder! This comprehensive guide, authored by seasoned journalist and gaming historian, Harry Parker, sheds light on the formative years of the gaming industry, a period that changed the way we engage with technology and each other. Coupling historical analysis with delightful bursts of nostalgia, Parker's report weaves masterful narratives, using riveting anecdotes, high-definition visual galleries, and exhaustive data studies to illustrate the drastic evolution from humble lines and dots to sophisticated, multi-dimensional characters and worlds. Whether you're a lifelong gamer nostalgic for those early joystick days, a young techie curious about the origins of your favorite pastime, or an enthusiast looking to understand the cultural impact of this burgeoning industry, "The Golden Age of Video Games" is a must-read! This comprehensive chronicle details groundbreaking titles from "Pong" to "Pac-Man," explores the transition to home consoles, the narrative and design breakthroughs, and the ever-growing social phenomenon of gaming. It highlights the rich history, cultural impacts, and the alluring charm of retro games that continue to make their mark in our digital reality. Channeling Parker's profound appreciation for the golden age of video games, it promises an intriguing and nostalgic journey for readers of all ages. Plug in, power up, and game on with "The Golden Age of Video Games: History, Impact, and Nostalgia!"

The Golden Age of Video Games
The Golden Age of Video Games

Author: Roberto Dillon

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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This book focuses on the history of video games, consoles, and home computers from the very beginning until the mid-nineties, which started a new era in digital entertainment. The text features the most innovative games and introduces the pioneers who developed them. It offers brief analyses of the most relevant games from each time period. An epil.

Fever Knights
Fever Knights

Author: Adam Ellis

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 2022-05-03

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1524878421

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What happened at Starfish Beach? Finneus had plans to surf every day of summer vacation until a mysterious accident at Starfish Beach took his arm and left him with almost no memory of exactly what happened. Now, strange things have been occurring all around Toro Island, and Finn and his friends are going to get to the bottom of it! Structured like an old-school video game strategy guide, Fever Knights unravels the mystery of the uncanny events affecting Toro Island as Finn and his friends look for answers, making allies, and fighting enemies, using their skills, teamwork, and strange new powers to figure out what happened at Starfish Beach and what they can do to save their home. With Adam Ellis's vibrant comic illustrations, witty humor, richly detailed world building, and a fantastical cast of characters, Fever Knights is the best game you've never played.

Attract Mode: The Rise and Fall of Coin-Op Arcade Games
Attract Mode: The Rise and Fall of Coin-Op Arcade Games

Author: Jamie Lendino

Publisher: Steel Gear Press

Published: 2020-09-27

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13:

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From their haunts in the shadowy corner of a bar, front and center at a convenience store, or reigning over a massive mall installation bursting with light, sound, and action, arcade games have been thrilling and addicting quarter-bearers of all ages ever since Pong first lit up its paddles. Whether you wanted a few minutes’ quick-twitch exhilaration or the taste of three-initial immortality that came with topping the high score screen, you could get it from the diverse range of space shooters, dot-eating extravaganzas, quirky beat-’em-ups, and more that have helped define pop culture for more than four decades. In Attract Mode: The Rise and Fall of Coin-Op Arcade Games, author Jamie Lendino celebrates both the biggest blockbusters (Pac-Man, Star Wars: The Arcade Game) and the forgotten gems (Phoenix, Star Castle) of the Golden Age of coin-op gaming, and pulls back the curtain on the personalities and the groundbreaking technologies that brought them to glitzy, color-drenched life in the U.S., Japan, and all over the world. You’ll start your journey exploring the electromechanical attractions and pinball games of the early 20th century. Next, you’ll meet the earliest innovators, who used college computers and untested electronics to outline the possibilities of the emerging form, and discover the surprising history behind the towering megahits from Nintendo, Sega, and others that still inform gaming today. Then you’ll witness the devastating crash that almost ended it all—and the rebirth no one expected. Whether you prefer the white-knuckle gameplay of Robotron: 2084, the barrel-jumping whimsy of Donkey Kong, or the stunning graphics and animation of Dragon’s Lair, Attract Mode will transport you back to the heyday of arcade games and let you relive—or experience for the first time—the unique magic that transformed entertainment forever.