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The History of Video Games (Kindle eBook)

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  • This book is a potted history of video games, telling all the rollercoaster stories of this fascinating young industry that's now twice as big globally than the film and music industries combined. Each chapter explores the history of video games through a different lens, giving a uniquely well-rounded overview. Packed with pictures and stats, this book is for video gamers nostalgic for the good old days of gaming, and young gamers curious about how it all began. If you've ever enjoyed a video game, or you just want to see what all the fuss is about, this book is for you. There are stories about the experimental games of the 1950s and 1960s; the advent of home gaming in the 1970s; the explosion – and implosion – of arcade gaming in the 1980s; the console wars of the 1990s; the growth of online and mobile games in the 2000s; and we get right up to date with the 2010s, including such cultural phenomena as twitch.tv, the Gamergate scandal, and Fortnite. But rather than telling the whole story from beginning to end, each chapter covers the history of video games from a different angle: platforms and technology, people and personalities, companies and capitalism, gender and representation, culture, community, and finally the games themselves.

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Amazon has The History of Video Games (Kindle eBook) by Charlie Fish for $0.25.

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About this eBook:
  • This book is a potted history of video games, telling all the rollercoaster stories of this fascinating young industry that's now twice as big globally than the film and music industries combined. Each chapter explores the history of video games through a different lens, giving a uniquely well-rounded overview. Packed with pictures and stats, this book is for video gamers nostalgic for the good old days of gaming, and young gamers curious about how it all began. If you've ever enjoyed a video game, or you just want to see what all the fuss is about, this book is for you. There are stories about the experimental games of the 1950s and 1960s; the advent of home gaming in the 1970s; the explosion – and implosion – of arcade gaming in the 1980s; the console wars of the 1990s; the growth of online and mobile games in the 2000s; and we get right up to date with the 2010s, including such cultural phenomena as twitch.tv, the Gamergate scandal, and Fortnite. But rather than telling the whole story from beginning to end, each chapter covers the history of video games from a different angle: platforms and technology, people and personalities, companies and capitalism, gender and representation, culture, community, and finally the games themselves.

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Not to worry, you'll have your turn on the receiving end of that attitude before your even realize it.

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ats
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you won't believe how short life ends up being. Goes by way faster than you can imagine it ever will.
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Read the sample, I'm old, so I remember the Atari 2600. For a quarter, let's go!!

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Read the sample, I'm old, so I remember the Atari 2600. For a quarter, let's go!!
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Quote from BlueShop747 :
Had to Google what the hell Atari is. Shet is old af.
Not to worry, you'll have your turn on the receiving end of that attitude before your even realize it.

"I had to look up what a cell phone screen was - you guys actually carried those things around??? How did you get anything done with that in your hands? Ewww!"
Last edited by ThinksTooMuch March 25, 2024 at 10:29 PM.
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Quote from ThinksTooMuch :
Not to worry, you'll have your turn on the receiving end of that attitude before your even realize it.

"I had to look up what a cell phone screen was - you guys actually carried those things around??? How did you get anything done with that in your hands? Ewww!"

How was content made other than by AI? Wait, people actually made stuff themselves?
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Quote from BlueShop747 :
Had to Google what the hell Atari is. Shet is old af.

you won't believe how short life ends up being. Goes by way faster than you can imagine it ever will.
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Quote from rjhartman74 :
Read the sample, I'm old, so I remember the Atari 2600. For a quarter, let's go!!
If you remember the Atari 2600 then you missed out on Colecovision which was more powerful and could be converted into the Adam computer.
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Same price on Google Play Books as well.
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Had to Google what the hell Atari is. Shet is old af.
Pretty soon some dumba$$ will be saying "WTF is Google!?"
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Just go watch the original Tron movie 😊
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you won't believe how short life ends up being. Goes by way faster than you can imagine it ever will.
I can't tell if people are just trying to be funny. They sell Atari emulation models are brick and mortar stores. It's still an ongoing company. They were just at pax East. It's like when people say "who is Paul McCartney?"
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Had to Google what the hell Atari is. Shet is old af.
I used to be with 'it', but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it' anymore and what's 'it' seems weird and scary. It'll happen to you!
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Had to Google what the hell Atari is. Shet is old af.
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