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Atari age : the emergence of video games in America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newman, Michael Z. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Video games > United States.
Video games industry > United States.
Video games.
Video games industry.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: early video games and new media history
  • 1. Good clean fun: the origins of the video arcade
  • 2. "Don't watch tv tonight. Play it!' Early video games and television
  • 3. Space invaders: masculine play in the media room
  • 4. Video games as computers, computers as toys
  • Video kids endangered and improved
  • 6. Pac-man fever.