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Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America (The MIT Press) - GOOD
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- ISBN
- 9780262536110
- Book Title
- Atari Age : the Emergence of Video Games in America
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Games & Activities, Social Science
- Topic
- Popular Culture, Video & Electronic, History
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 10.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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The cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over pinball and television (but possibly harmful) Beginning with the release of the Magnavox Odyssey and Pong in 1972, video games, whether played in arcades and taverns or in family rec rooms, became part of popular culture, like television. In fact, video games were sometimes seen as an improvement on television because they spurred participation rather than passivity. These "space-age pinball machines" gave coin-operated games a high-tech and more respectable profile. In Atari Age , Michael Newman charts the emergence of video games in America from ball-and-paddle games to hits like Space Invaders and Pac-Man , describing their relationship to other amusements and technologies and showing how they came to be identified with the middle class, youth, and masculinity. Newman shows that the "new media" of video games were understood in varied, even contradictory ways. They were family fun (but mainly for boys), better than television (but possibly harmful), and educational (but a waste of computer time). Drawing on a range of sources--including the games and their packaging; coverage in the popular, trade, and fan press; social science research of the time; advertising and store catalogs; and representations in movies and television--Newman describes the series of cultural contradictions through which the identity of the emerging medium worked itself out. Would video games embody middle-class respectability or suffer from the arcade's unsavory reputation? Would they foster family togetherness or allow boys to escape from domesticity? Would they make the new home computer a tool for education or just a glorified toy? Then, as now, many worried about the impact of video games on players, while others celebrated video games for familiarizing kids with technology essential for the information age.
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MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262536110
ISBN-13
9780262536110
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Book Title
Atari Age : the Emergence of Video Games in America
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Popular Culture, Video & Electronic, History
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Games & Activities, Social Science
Number of Pages
264 Pages
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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Gv1469.3
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
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Lccn
2016-028476
Dewey Decimal
794.8
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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