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The Golden Age of Video Games: The Birth of a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry
This book focuses on the history of video games, consoles, and home computers from the very beginning until the mid-nineties, which started a new era in digital entertainment. The text features the most innovative games and introduces the pioneers who developed them. It offers brief analyses of the most relevant games from each time period. An epilogue covers the events an...more
Paperback, 183 pages
Published
April 12th 2011
by AK Peters
(first published March 23rd 2011)
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I enjoyed reading this because it was both humorous to see the old ads for video games and because I remembered being a kid, playing my favorite Atari games with my family.
However, it took me a long time to get through this very short book because it does become repetitive, it is a little dry, and because it's very generalized in that it doesn't go into any depth over the impact video games have had upon the past three generations of game-developers, gamers, families, schools, etc. It was purely...more
However, it took me a long time to get through this very short book because it does become repetitive, it is a little dry, and because it's very generalized in that it doesn't go into any depth over the impact video games have had upon the past three generations of game-developers, gamers, families, schools, etc. It was purely...more
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