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A history of video games in 64 objects

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"Drawing on the World Video Game Hall of Fame's unmatched collection of video game artifacts, this fascinating history offers an expansive look at the development of one of the most popular and influential activities of the modern world: video gaming."--Amazon.

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English
Pages
341

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A History of Video Games in 64 Objects
May 29, 2018, HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
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2018
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Table of Contents

Humpty Dumpty (1947)
Tennis for two (1958)
John Burgeson's baseball game (1960)
Digi-comp computer (1963)
Sumerian game (1964)
Ralph Baer's brown boc (1967)
Nintendo love tester (1969)
Computer space (1971)
The Oregon trail (1971)
"Spacewar : fanatic life and symbolic death among the computer bums" in Rolling Stone (1972)
Magnavox odyssey (1972)
Magnavox mini theater (1972)
Pong (1972)
101 BASIC computer games (1973)
Dungeons & dragons (1974)
Home pong (1975)
Breakout (1976)
Fairchild channel F (1976)
Death race (1976)
Atari video computer system (1977)
Mattel football (1977)
Zork (1977)
Simon (1978)
Space invaders (1978)
Adventureland (1978)
Speak & spell (19781)
Asteriods (1979)
Ralph Baer's light anti-tank weapon (1979)
Pac-Man (1980)
Missile command (1980)
Donkey kong (1981)
Utopia (1981)
River raid (1982)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
One-on-one : Dr. J vs. Larry Bird (1983)
Pinball construction set (1983)
King's quest (1984)
Tetris (1984)
Nintendo entertainment system (1985)
Super Mario bros. (1985)
The legend of Zelda (1986)
NES hands free controller (1989)
Prince of Persia (1989)
John Madden football (1990)
Street fighter II (1991)
Sonic the hedgehog (1991)
Mortal kombat (1992)
Doom (1993)
Myst (1993)
Nintendo virtual boy (1995)
Pokémon (1995)
The Sims (2000)
Grand theft auto III (2001)
Halo : combat evolved (2001)
Densha de go! Contorller (2002)
World of warcraft (2004)
Wii remote (2006)
Call of duty : modern warfare 2 (2009)
Minecraft (2011)
Skylanders (2011)
Nancy Drew : tomb of the lost queen (2012)
Pokémon Go (2016)
That dragon, cancer (2016).

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical resources (pages 317-332) and index.

Other Titles
History of video games in sixty-four objects
Copyright Date
2018

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
794.8
Library of Congress
GV1469.3 .H57 2018, GV1469.3.H57 2018

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 341 pages
Number of pages
341

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26968164M
ISBN 10
0062838695
ISBN 13
9780062838698
LCCN
2017473803
OCLC/WorldCat
1002831729

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