Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer SystemMIT Press, 2009年1月9日 - 192 頁 A study of the relationship between platform and creative expression in the Atari VCS, the gaming system for popular games like Pac-Man and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home video game market so completely that “Atari” became the generic term for a video game console. The Atari VCS was affordable and offered the flexibility of changeable cartridges. Nearly a thousand of these were created, the most significant of which established new techniques, mechanics, and even entire genres. This book offers a detailed and accessible study of this influential video game console from both computational and cultural perspectives. Studies of digital media have rarely investigated platforms—the systems underlying computing. This book, the first in a series of Platform Studies, does so, developing a critical approach that examines the relationship between platforms and creative expression. Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost discuss the Atari VCS itself and examine in detail six game cartridges: Combat, Adventure, Pac-Man, Yars' Revenge, Pitfall!, and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. They describe the technical constraints and affordances of the system and track developments in programming, gameplay, interface, and aesthetics. Adventure, for example, was the first game to represent a virtual space larger than the screen (anticipating the boundless virtual spaces of such later games as World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto), by allowing the player to walk off one side into another space; and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was an early instance of interaction between media properties and video games. Montfort and Bogost show that the Atari VCS—often considered merely a retro fetish object—is an essential part of the history of video games. |
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... cartridges for that system. We also thank those who replied to our questions about game development on the system and emulation of the system: Bill Bracy, Rex Bradford, David Crane, Jeff Vavasour, and Howard Scott Warshaw. Thanks to ...
... cartridges for that system. We also thank those who replied to our questions about game development on the system and emulation of the system: Bill Bracy, Rex Bradford, David Crane, Jeff Vavasour, and Howard Scott Warshaw. Thanks to ...
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... cartridges. The Atari VCS is a very simple, elegant, and influential platform of this sort. In other cases, a platform includes an operating system. It is often useful to think of a programming language or environment on top of an ...
... cartridges. The Atari VCS is a very simple, elegant, and influential platform of this sort. In other cases, a platform includes an operating system. It is often useful to think of a programming language or environment on top of an ...
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... cartridges. The popularity of the Atari VCS—which was the dominant system for years and remained widely used for more ... cartridge-based system is an extremely curious computer. Cost concerns led to a remarkable hardware design, which ...
... cartridges. The popularity of the Atari VCS—which was the dominant system for years and remained widely used for more ... cartridge-based system is an extremely curious computer. Cost concerns led to a remarkable hardware design, which ...
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... cartridge Basketball , which , in its 2K of code and graphics , managed to provide a computer- controlled opponent for a one - on - one game . But even before then , one of the VCS launch titles , Video Olympics , offered a one - player ...
... cartridge Basketball , which , in its 2K of code and graphics , managed to provide a computer- controlled opponent for a one - on - one game . But even before then , one of the VCS launch titles , Video Olympics , offered a one - player ...
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... cartridge Haunted House . Regardless of whether the case for this lineage is persuasive , it is obvious that the ... Cartridge Games for the Home The Atari Video Computer System was the first successful cartridge - based videogame ...
... cartridge Haunted House . Regardless of whether the case for this lineage is persuasive , it is obvious that the ... Cartridge Games for the Home The Atari Video Computer System was the first successful cartridge - based videogame ...
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