Racing the Beam
The Atari Video Computer System
$49.14
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
25 February 2020
Summary
A study of the relationship between platform and creative expression in the Atari VCS.
The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home video game market so completely that “Atari” became the generic term for a video game console. The Atari VCS was affordable and offered the flexibility of changeable cartridges. Nearly a thousand of these were created, the most significant of which established new techniques, mechanics, and even entire genres.
This book offers a detailed and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262539760 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262539764 |
| Author: | Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 25 February 2020 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Platform Studies |
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Critics Review
Montfort and Bogost’s analysis is both technically detailed and historically contextualized, both informative and methodologically instructive. They write with a rigor and grace that future contributors to the series may be at pains to match.
—Seth Perlow, ConvergenceRead it, it will do you good.
—José P. Zagal, Game StudiesRacing the Beam doesn’t spare the technical details, but is always accessible and compelling. Downright thrilling at times, in fact, a sort of The Right Stuff of video game development.
—Darren Zenko, thestar.com (Toronto Star)About The Author
Nick Montfort
Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at MIT. He is the author of Twisty Little Passages- An Approach to Interactive Fiction and Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities; the coauthor of Racing the Beam- The Atari Video Computer System and 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); - GOTO 10; and the coeditor of The New Media Reader.
Ian Bogost is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC, and the coauthor of Newsgames- Journalism at Play.
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