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Warren Davis Creating Q*Bert: and Other Classic Video Arcade Games (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Creating Q*Bert: and Other Classic Video Arcade Games
- Publication Name
- Creating Q*Bert: and Other Classic Video Arcade Games
- Title
- Creating Q*Bert: and Other Classic Video Arcade Games
- Contributor
- John Newcomer (Afterword by)
- Format
- Hardcover
- EAN
- 9781595801050
- ISBN
- 9781595801050
- Publisher
- Santa Monica Press
- Genre
- Games & Activities, Sports & Recreation
- Release Date
- 24/02/2022
- Release Year
- 2022
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Topic
- General, Video & Electronic
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 18.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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Creating Q*bert and Other Classic Video Arcade Games takes you inside the video arcade game industry during the pivotal decades of the 1980s and 1990s. Warren Davis, the creator of the groundbreaking Q*bert , worked as a member of the creative teams who developed some of the most popular video games of all time, including Joust 2 , Mortal Kombat , NBA Jam , and Revolution X . In a witty and entertaining narrative, Davis shares insightful stories that offer a behind-the-scenes look at what it was like to work as a designer and programmer at the most influential and dominant video arcade game manufacturers of the era, including Gottlieb, Williams/Bally/Midway, and Premiere. Likewise, the talented artists, designers, creators, and programmers Davis has collaborated with over the years reads like a who's who of video gaming history: Eugene Jarvis, Tim Skelly, Ed Boon, Jeff Lee, Dave Thiel, John Newcomer, George Petro, Jack Haeger, and Dennis Nordman, among many others. The impact Davis has had on the video arcade game industry is deep and varied. At Williams, Davis created and maintained the revolutionary digitizing system that allowed actors and other photo-realistic imagery to be utilized in such games as Mortal Kombat , T2 , and NBA Jam . When Davis worked on the fabled Us vs. Them , it was the first time a video game integrated a live action story with arcade-style graphics. On the one-of-a-kind Exterminator , Davis developed a brand new video game hardware system, and created a unique joystick that sensed both omni-directional movement and rotation, a first at that time. For Revolution X , he created a display system that simulated a pseudo-3D environment on 2D hardware, as well as a tool for artists that facilitated the building of virtual worlds and the seamless integration of the artist's work into game code. Whether you're looking for insights into the Golden Age of Arcades, would like to learn how Davis first discovered his design and programming skills as a teenager working with a 1960's computer called a Monrobot XI, or want to get the inside scoop on what it was like to film the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band Aerosmith for Revolution X , Davis' memoir provides a backstage tour of the arcade and video game industry during its most definitive and influential period.
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Publisher
Santa Monica Press
ISBN-10
1595801057
ISBN-13
9781595801050
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4050395294
Product Key Features
Book Title
Creating Q*Bert: and Other Classic Video Arcade Games
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Video & Electronic
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Games & Activities, Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
18.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gv1469.3
Reviews
"In his new book, Creating Q*bert and Other Classic Arcade Games , legendary game designer and programmer Warren Davis recalls his halycon days imagining and designing some of the biggest hits to ever grace an arcade." --Engadget, "Working alongside Warren at Williams Electronics was one of those rare, once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. He conjured magical code that introduced me to the world of digitization and video game programming. Not only a wise and entertaining designer/programmer, he impressed us all with his extra-curricular acting gigs. This book gave me a true appreciation for the man that was always positive, kind, and helpful to a young 'know it all' from Indiana." --George Petro, founder of Play Mechanix, makers of Big Buck Hunter, "The impact Warren Davis has had on video game culture cannot be understated. It was great to learn so much more about one of the Godfathers of the industry." --Joshua Tsui, director of Insert Coin, " Creating Q*bert is more than a compelling memoir: it is a vehicle that parks itself and delivers now-stalgia in Q*bert-style leaps and bounds. Warren Davis is your friendly, neighborhood, savant-like driver." --Geek Insider, "[Davis] takes us on an insightful journey through the '80s and '90s covering the birth and nearly two decades of arcade game development from a unique insider perspective. . . . For someone who has been an active gamer since 1980, I found this a highly enjoyable and surprisingly detailed journal of those times. . . . I went into this review hoping to learn a bit of the backstory on how Q*bert was created and came away with a much greater knowledge of the entire arcade industry from testing, building, and even marketing. . . . I highly recommend Creating Q*bert and Other Classic Video Arcade Games to anyone who enjoys (or has ever enjoyed) arcade video games regardless of your age. The games you play today on PC and console all got their roots during these two decades of innovation and chances are Warren Davis played some part in what we are all playing today." --Mark Smith, Game Chronicles, "Warren delivers a ringside peek into the Golden Age of arcade gaming. Art, science, and commerce merged to produce games which continue to delight and challenge aficionados, and Warren was smack dab in the middle of it. He tells his story in a clear, concise voice, all the while retaining a touch of awe reflecting the alchemy of the era." --Jeff Lee, Co-creator of Q*bert and curious earthling, "Warren was in the right place with the right stuff. We were fortunate to be at the beginning of a revolution in entertainment. It is great that an interactive entertainment pioneer has taken the time to write about his journey and Warren does it well." --David Thiel, interactive audio artist, "Davis, an International Video Game Hall of Fame inductee, reflects in this entertaining debut on his years as an influential creator at the forefront of the "video game revolution." He recounts his "earliest exposure" to computers, in high school in Brooklyn in the 1970s, when he learned programming on a device "the size of a desk." As a freshman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he discovered Pong, and later created his first game, a simulated gin rummy that was done via punch cards. After graduating, Davis landed his first programming job in 1982 at the arcade game company Gottlieb, where he helped create Q*bert--one of the most popular video arcade games of the '80s--an accomplishment that led him to later achieve breakthroughs in automating the digitizing of graphics used in such games as Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam. Even in his more granular descriptions, Davis's enthusiasm brings to the page the palpable excitement of the "golden age" he'd been a part of. From deciding on Q*bert's moves ("Should I just keep him stuck at the edge [of the pyramid], or allow him to fall into nothingness?") to procuring the flying footage needed for the alien invasion game Us vs. Them, every detail is parsed to convey the rigorous thought underpinning some of history's most successful video games. Gamers will be fascinated." -- Publisher's Weekly, "In retro-gaming circles, Warren Davis is something of an unheralded pioneer, one of many who laid a blocky 8-bit path to PlayStation, Wordle and an industry now pulling in $180 billion annually." --Chicago Tribune, "With a brilliant and friendly style, Warren Davis tells us his story full of interesting anecdotes." -- RetroMagazine, "Warren was part of a small team building Williams' next generation of video arcade hardware and software. By the time I joined the video game department, they had built a development foundation upon which future classic arcade games like NARC , Smash TV , Terminator 2 , NBA Jam , and Mortal Kombat would be created. . . . I can't overstate the impact Warren had on the development of Mortal Kombat and so many other Williams/Midway games." --Ed Boon, Co-creator of Mortal Kombat and NetherRealm Studios creative director, "Warren's wit, insights and self-depreciating humour make this a pleasure to read and as entertaining as the games he created."-- The Nottingham Post, " Q*bert may be Warren's most famous creation, but his work at 1990's Midway was instrumental in the parade of arcade smash hits that marched out of our studio. He is both humble and accurate in his behind-the-scenes recollections. If ever you wanted a peek behind our coin-op curtain and a window into the life of a true industry pioneer, this is it!" --John Tobias, Co-creator of Mortal Kombat, "Warren's book is a well-written, entertaining history of the early video game industry. Working with Warren, Dave, Rich, and others creating Us vs. Them was an interesting creative challenge. We had never done anything like this before, but we just dove in, solving problems as they came up. I have a lot of great memories of our time together working on Us vs. Them , and Warren's writing reminded me of a few I had forgotten. Thanks, Warren, for documenting the history of our great adventure." --Dennis Nordman, pinball and coin-op game designer
Table of Content
CONTENTS 1) The Shaping of a Young Mind 2) Entering Wonderland 3) The Cubes Game 4) A Noser is Born 5) The Aftermath 6) US vs THEM 7) Gottlieb's Demise 8) Williams and the Dawn of Digitization 9) The Premier Years 10) Return to Williams 11) Last Days in the Funhouse 12) Loose Ends
Afterword by
Newcomer, John
Lccn
2023-277596
Dewey Decimal
794.8
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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