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Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984
 
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Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984 (Hardcover)
by Van Burnham (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 448 pages
  • Publisher: MIT Press (10 Oct 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0262024926
  • ISBN-13: 978-0262024921
  • Product Dimensions: 26 x 26 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 713,304 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #36 in  Books > Computing & Internet > PC & Video Games > History & Culture

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Amazon.co.uk Review
It was a time when technology was king, status was determined by your high score and video games were blitzing the world... Supercade is the first book to illustrate and document the history, legacy and visual language of the video game phenomenon, from the fist 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.

From Pong to Pac-Man, Asteroids to Zaxxon, more than 50 million people around the world have come of age within the electronic flux of video games, their subconscious forever etched with images projected from arcade and home video game systems.

Exuberantly written and illustrated in full colour, 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.

The book 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. --Miles Taylor

New Scientist, 22 September, 2001
The screenshots in the book will bring a nostalgic tear to many an eye...The gameplay's the thing.

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