Before the Crash: Early Video Game History (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies),Used

Before the Crash: Early Video Game History (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies),Used

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Following the first appearance of arcade video games in 1971 and home video game systems in 1972, the commercial video game market was exuberant with fastpaced innovation and profit. New games, gaming systems, and technologies flooded into the market until around 1983, when sales of home game systems dropped, thousands of arcades closed, and major video game makers suffered steep losses or left the market altogether. In Before the Crash: Early Video Game History, editor Mark J. P. Wolf assembles essays that examine the fleeting golden age of video games, an era sometimes overlooked for older games' lack of availability or their perceived "primitiveness" when compared to contemporary video games.In twelve chapters, contributors consider much of what was going on during the precrash era: arcade games, home game consoles, home computer games, handheld games, and even early online games. The technologies of early video games are investigated, as well as the cultural context of the early periodfrom aesthetic, economic, industrial, and legal perspectives. Since the video game industry and culture got their start and found their form in this era, these years shaped much of what video games would come to be. This volume of early history, then, not only helps readers to understand the precrash era, but also reveals much about the present state of the industry.Before the Crash will give readers a thorough overview of the early days of video games along with a sense of the optimism, enthusiasm, and excitement of those times. Students and teachers of media studies will enjoy this compelling volume.

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