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Author : Sarah Rudolph
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783960145561
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Rainbow Arcade written by Sarah Rudolph and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Sellers
Publisher : Running Press
ISBN 13 : 9780762409372
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Arcade Fever The Fan's Guide To The Golden Age Of Video Games written by John Sellers and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2001-08-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arcade Fever is a full-color illustrated history of video arcade games, with tributes to more than 50 classic games like Pong, Space Invaders, Pac Man, Q-Bert, Frogger, and TRON. Learn which game caused a yen shortage in Japan -- and which games inspired breakfast cereals, Saturday-morning cartoons, episodes of Seinfeld,and #1 pop-music singles. Meet the visionary musicians, writers, animators, cabinet artists, and other unsung heroes of the video game industry. The perfect gift for anyone who spent their childhood in video arcades, Arcade Fever is a pop-culture nostalgia trip you won't want to miss! John Sellers writes for Entertainment Weekly, Premiere, TV Guide, and other national magazines. He is also the author of Pop Culture Aptitude Test: Rad, 80s Version. He was the World Champion of Donkey Kong in 1983 and appeared on the television show "That's Incredible!"
Author : Tim Nicholls
Publisher : Bitmap Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780993012976
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Artcade written by Tim Nicholls and published by Bitmap Books Limited. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gamers who cut their teeth in the arcades will love this trip down memory lane. Artcade is a unique collection of coin-op cabinet marquees, some dating back 40 years to the dawn of video gaming. Originally acquired by Tim Nicholls from a Hollywood props company, this archive of marquees - many of which had suffered damage over time - have now been scanned and digitally restored to their former glory. The full collection of classic arcade cabinet artwork is presented here for the first time in this stunning landscape hardback book, and accompanied by interviews with artists Larry Day and the late Python Anghelo. Relive your mis-spent youth with artwork from dozens of coin-ops including Asteroid, Battlezone, Street Fighter II, Out Run, Moon Patrol, Gyruss, Q*Bert, Bubble Bobble and many more. Each marquee takes up a full double-page spread in the book, and is faithfully recreated using beautiful lithographic printing on the highest quality paper. Tim has spent over a thousand hours assembling the high-resolution scans, restoring the images in Photoshop and color-correcting them back to their vibrant, as-new appearance. The results of all that hard work are now available as a lasting record of the amazing artwork that adorned the arcades during the golden era of coin-op video gaming.
Author : Kenneth Stevens
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435753739
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Emulation User's Guide written by Kenneth Stevens and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emulation User's Guide has everything you need to know about getting started with computer, console and arcade emulation on the Apple Macintosh computer and PC. This guide includes the history of emulation on the Internet and covers some of the legalities involving emulation of these systems.
Author : Amelia Mellor
Publisher : Affirm Press
ISBN 13 : 1922400432
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (224 download)
Download or read book The Grandest Bookshop in the World written by Amelia Mellor and published by Affirm Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearl and Vally Cole live in a bookshop. And not just any bookshop. In 1893, Cole's Book Arcade in Melbourne is the grandest bookshop in the world, brimming with every curiosity imaginable. Each day brings fresh delights for the siblings: voice-changing sweets, talking parrots, a new story written just for them by their eccentric father. When Pearl and Vally learn that Pa has risked the Arcade - and himself - in a shocking deal with the mysterious Obscurosmith, the siblings hatch a plan. Soon they are swept into a dangerous game with impossibly high stakes: defeat seven challenges by the stroke of midnight and both the Arcade and their father will be restored. But if they fail Pearl and Vally won't just lose Pa - they'll forget that he and the Arcade ever existed.
Author : Matt Fox
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476600678
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Video Games Guide written by Matt Fox and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Video Games Guide is the world's most comprehensive reference book on computer and video games. Presented in an A to Z format, this greatly expanded new edition spans fifty years of game design--from the very earliest (1962's Spacewar) through the present day releases on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and PC. Each game entry includes the year of release, the hardware it was released on, the name of the developer/publisher, a one to five star quality rating, and a descriptive review which offers fascinating nuggets of trivia, historical notes, cross-referencing with other titles, information on each game's sequels and of course the author's views and insights into the game. In addition to the main entries and reviews, a full-color gallery provides a visual timeline of gaming through the decades, and several appendices help to place nearly 3,000 games in context. Appendices include: a chronology of gaming software and hardware, a list of game designers showing their main titles, results of annual video game awards, notes on sourcing video games, and a glossary of gaming terms.
Author : Martin Lorber
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839454204
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book History in Games written by Martin Lorber and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do we end up when we enter the time machine that is the digital game? One axiomatic truth of historical research is that the past is the time-space that eludes human intervention. Every account made of the past is therefore only an approximation. But how is it that strolling through ancient Alexandria can feel so real in the virtual world? Claims of authenticity are prominent in discussions surrounding the digital games of our time. What is historical authenticity and does it even matter? When does authenticity or the lack thereof become political? By answering these questions, the book illuminates the ubiquitous category of authenticity from the perspective of historical game studies.
Author : Tom Clancy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425170342
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Rainbow Six written by Tom Clancy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this #1 New York Times bestselling John Clark thriller, author Tom Clancy takes readers into the shadowy world of anti-terrorism and gets closer to reality than any government would care to admit... Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark has been named the head of Rainbow, an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism. In a trial by fire, Clark is confronted with a violent chain of seemingly separate international incidents. But there is no way to predict the real threat: a group of terrorists like none the world has ever encountered, a band of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on earth as we know it.
Author : Mike James
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1837910332
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Smoke and Mirrors written by Mike James and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an official account of events that led to the evolution of GameGavel, RETRO magazine, the RETRO VGS, and the Coleco Chameleon written by somebody who was involved and had inside information that has never been published before. It is a factual account of events, but more than that, it is a human story of the man behind the GameGavel Network and the Retro VGS / Coleco Chameleon and shows how one man's dream can quickly become a nightmare. Mike Kennedy set out with good intentions and wanted to produce a video game console but somewhere along the way he lost control of his vision, his empire, and his livelihood. At any stage, he could have stopped the descent into madness but he chose to double down and forge ahead with one of the biggest scams in video game history. Join Mike on his journey from hobby gamer to C.E.O. and back again and experience his highs and lows along the way.
Author : Benjamin Beil
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3732862003
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Playful Materialities written by Benjamin Beil and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game culture and material culture have always been closely linked. Analog forms of rule-based play (ludus) would hardly be conceivable without dice, cards, and game boards. In the act of free play (paidia), children as well as adults transform simple objects into multifaceted toys in an almost magical way. Even digital play is suffused with material culture: Games are not only mediated by technical interfaces, which we access via hardware and tangible peripherals. They are also subject to material hybridization, paratextual framing, and processes of de-, and re-materialization.
Author : Claudia Costa Pederson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253054508
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Gaming Utopia written by Claudia Costa Pederson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media, Claudia Costa Pederson analyzes modernist avant-garde and contemporary video games to challenge the idea that gaming is an exclusively white, heterosexual, male, corporatized leisure activity and reenvisions it as a catalyst for social change. By looking at over fifty projects that together span a century and the world, Pederson explores the capacity for sociopolitical commentary in virtual and digital realms and highlights contributions to the history of gaming by women, queer, and transnational artists. The result is a critical tool for understanding video games as imaginative forms of living that offer alternatives to our current reality. With an interdisciplinary approach, Gaming Utopia emphasizes how game design, creation, and play can become political forms of social protest and examines the ways that games as art open doors to a more just and peaceful world.
Author : Maike Groen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3658281758
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (582 download)
Download or read book Games and Ethics written by Maike Groen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of digital gamers is increasing worldwide, but public debates about digital games commonly focus on questionable game content or problematic gaming behavior. This book offers a broader ethical perspective on digital game cultures, presenting theoretical and empirical work on the ethical dimensions of the development, production and distribution of digital games, as well as issues relating to responsible gaming and the pedagogical use of digital games. Questions of the communicative-cultural change in game cultures are linked with questions of media education and media ethics. With such a comprehensive approach, the volume promotes ethical discourse on digital game cultures.
Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1948-03-27 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Author : Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317533135
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Understanding Video Games written by Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Video Games is a crucial guide for newcomers to video game studies and experienced game scholars alike. This revised and updated third edition of the pioneering text provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of game studies, and highlights changes in the gaming industry, advances in video game scholarship, and recent trends in game design and development—including mobile, casual, educational, and indie gaming. In the third edition of this textbook, students will: Learn the major theories and schools of thought used to study games, including ludology and narratology; Understand the commercial and organizational aspects of the game industry; Trace the history of games, from the board games of ancient Egypt to the rise of mobile gaming; Explore the aesthetics of game design, including rules, graphics, audio, and time; Analyze the narrative strategies and genre approaches used in video games; Consider the debate surrounding the effects of violent video games and the impact of "serious games." Featuring discussion questions, recommended games, a glossary of key terms, and an interactive online video game history timeline, Understanding Video Games provides a valuable resource for anyone interested in examining the ways video games are reshaping entertainment and society.
Author : Christopher Hopkins
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476674353
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Video Game Audio written by Christopher Hopkins and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the one-bit beeps of Pong to the 3D audio of PlayStation 5, this book examines historical trends in video game sound and music. A range of game systems sold in North America, Europe and Japan are evaluated by their audio capabilities and industry competition. Technical fine points are explored, including synthesized v. sampled sound, pre-recorded v. dynamic audio, backward compatibility, discrete and multifunctional soundchips, storage media, audio programming documentation, and analog v. digital outputs. A timeline chronicles significant developments in video game sound for PC, NES, Dreamcast, Xbox, Wii, Game Boy, PSP, iOS and Android devices and many others.
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674043268
Total Pages : 1100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (432 download)
Download or read book The Arcades Project written by Walter Benjamin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources. 46 illustrations.
Author : Michael Mark Chemers
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809338327
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Systemic Dramaturgy written by Michael Mark Chemers and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working theatrically with technology Systemic Dramaturgy offers an invigorating, practical look at the daunting cultural problems of the digital age as they relate to performance. Authors Michael Mark Chemers and Mike Sell reject the incompatibility of theatre with robots, digital media, or video games. Instead, they argue that technology is the original problem of theatre: How can we tell this story and move this audience with these tools? And if we have different tools, how can that change the stories we tell? This volume attunes readers to “systemic dramaturgy”—the recursive elements of signification, innovation, and history that underlie all performance—arguing that theatre must be understood as a system of systems, a concatenation of people, places, things, politics, feelings, and interpretations, ideally working together to entertain and edify an audience. The authors discuss in-depth the application of time-tested dramaturgical skills to extra-theatrical endeavors, including multi-platform performance, installations, and videogames. And they identify the unique interventions that dramaturgs can and must make into these art forms. More than any other book that has been published in the field, Systemic Dramaturgy places historical dramaturgy in conversation with technologies as old as the deus ex machina and as new as artificial intelligence. Spirited and playful in its approach, this volume collates histories, transcripts, and case studies and applies the concepts of systemic dramaturgy to works both old and avant-garde. Between chapters, Chemers and Sell talk with with some of the most forward-thinking, innovative, and creative people working in live media as they share their diverse approaches to the challenges of making performances, games, and digital media that move both heart and mind. This volume is nothing less than a guide for thinking about the future evolution of performance.
