Supercade

A visual history of the videogame age 1971-1984

Van Burnham

440 pages, parution le 01/01/2001

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Résumé

It was a time when technology was king, status was determined by your high score, and videogames were blitzing the world...

From Pong to Pac-Man, Asteroids to Zaxxon--more than fifty million people around the world have come of age within the electronic flux of videogames, their subconscious forever etched with images projected from arcade and home videogame systems.

From the first interactive blips of electronic light at Brookhaven National Labs and the creation of Spacewar! at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; to the invention of the TV Game Project and the myriad systems of Magnavox, Atari, Coleco, and Mattel that followed; through the rise of the Golden Age of videogames and forward into the imagination of millions, Supercade is the first book to illustrate and document the history, legacy, and visual language of the videogame phenomenon.

Exuberantly written and illustrated in full color, Supercade pays tribute to the technology, games, and visionaries of one of the most influential periods in the history of computer science--one that profoundly shaped the modern technological landscape and helped change the way people view entertainment.

Supercade includes contributions from such commentators and participants as Ralph Baer, Julian Dibbell, Keith Feinstein, Joe Fielder, Lauren Fielder, Justin Hall, Leonard Herman, Steven Johnson, Steven Kent, Nick Montfort, Bob Parks, Carl Steadman, and Tom Vanderbilt.

L'auteur - Van Burnham

Van Burnham is a Contributing Editor at Wired magazine and a member of the Video Arcade Preservation Society.

Sommaire

Brookhaven National Labs
- Tennis For Two
MIT
- Building 20 by Nick Montfort
- TMRC by Nick Montfort
- The Origin of Spacewar! By Jim Graetz
TV Game Project
- Television Gaming Apparatus
- The Brown Box
Timeline
1971
- Syzygy
- Computer Space
1972
- Atari
- Odyssey
- Pong
1973
- TV Ping-Pong
- Asteroid
- Gotcha
- Paddle Ball
- Rally
- Space Race
- Winner
1974
- Gran Trak
- Puppy Pong
- Qwak!
- Rebound
- Speed Race
- Tank
- Touch Me
1975
- Atari Pong
- Odyssey 100-5000
- Alley Rally
- Avenger
- Gun Fight
- Maneater
- Shark Jaws
- Steeplechase
1976
- Telstar
- Channel F
- Adventure By Julian Dibbell
- Breakout
- Death Race
- Night Driver
- Sea Wolf
- Sprint 2
- Stunt Cycle
1977
- Atari VCS By Leonard Herman
- Studio II
- Apple II By Justin Hall
- Pet By Nick Montfort
- TRS-8O
- Canyon Bomber
- Circus
- Drag Race
- Safari
- Starship 1
1978
- The Professional Arcade
- Odyssey
- Atari Football
- Avalanche
- Blasto
- Fire Truck
- Gee Bee
- Space Invaders
- Space Wars By Chris Hudak
1979
- Intellivision By Steven Johnson
- Aiari Home Computers
- TI-99
- Asteroids by Tom Vanderbilt
- Basketball
- Galaxian
- Galaxy Wars
- Lunar Lander
- Rip Off By Carl Steadman
- Speed Freak
- Warrior
- Interview : Tim Skelly
1980
- Activision By Nick Montfort
- Game & Watch
- Battlezone
- Berzerk By Nick Montfort
- Carnival
- Centipede
- Crazy Climber
- Defender By Nick Montfort
- Missile Command
- Pac-Man
- Phoenix
- Radarscope
- Red Baron
- Space Invaders Deluxe
- Star Castle
- Stratovox
1981
- Pac Man Fever
- Twin Galaxies
- Interview: Walter Day
- Cosmos
- Commodore Vic-20

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Éditeur(s)	The MIT Press
Auteur(s)	Van Burnham
Parution	01/01/2001
Nb. de pages	440
Format	25,5 x 25,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1975g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780262524209
ISBN13	978-0-262-52420-9