Before the Crash: Early Video Game History
Contributors examine the early days of video game history before the industry crash of 1983 that ended the medium’s golden age.
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Contents
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Introduction
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Accessibility Teleological Distortion and Other Methodological Issues
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Whats Victoria Got To Do with It? Toward an Archaeology of Domestic Video Gaming
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30 |
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BallandPaddle Consoles
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53 |
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The Fairchild Video Entertainment System
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60 |
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The Video Game Industry Crash of 1977
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81 |
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Transmediation Abstraction and Identification in Early Games Licensed from Movies ...
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Reading the Atari Catalog
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105 |
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The Technical Aesthetics of Defender and the Williams Arcade Platform 198082 ...
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168 |
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Economic Lessons from the Video Game Arcade
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BBSs and MUDs
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209 |
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Video Game History Getting Things Straight
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The Magnavox Co v Activision Inc 1985 WL 9469 ND Cal 1985
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Contributors
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BackCover
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