A history of video games in 64 objects
By: World Video Game Hall of Fame
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Dey St.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780062838698
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Video games; History
Other titles: History of video games in sixty-four objects
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical resources (pages 317-332) and index.
Table of contents: title: Humpty Dumpty (1947); title: Tennis for two (1958); title: John Burgeson's baseball game (1960); title: Digi-comp computer (1963); title: Sumerian game (1964); title: Ralph Baer's brown boc (1967); title: Nintendo love tester (1969); title: Computer space (1971); title: The Oregon trail (1971); title: "Spacewar : fanatic life and symbolic death among the computer bums" in Rolling Stone (1972); title: Magnavox odyssey (1972); title: Magnavox mini theater (1972); title: Pong (1972); title: 101 BASIC computer games (1973); title: Dungeons & dragons (1974); title: Home pong (1975); title: Breakout (1976); title: Fairchild channel F (1976); title: Death race (1976); title: Atari video computer system (1977); title: Mattel football (1977); title: Zork (1977); title: Simon (1978); title: Space invaders (1978); title: Adventureland (1978); title: Speak & spell (19781); title: Asteriods (1979); title: Ralph Baer's light anti-tank weapon (1979); title: Pac-Man (1980); title: Missile command (1980); title: Donkey kong (1981); title: Utopia (1981); title: River raid (1982); title: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982); title: One-on-one : Dr. J vs. Larry Bird (1983); title: Pinball construction set (1983); title: King's quest (1984); title: Tetris (1984); title: Nintendo entertainment system (1985); title: Super Mario bros. (1985); title: The legend of Zelda (1986); title: NES hands free controller (1989); title: Prince of Persia (1989); title: John Madden football (1990); title: Street fighter II (1991); title: Sonic the hedgehog (1991); title: Mortal kombat (1992); title: Doom (1993); title: Myst (1993); title: Nintendo virtual boy (1995); title: Pokémon (1995); title: The Sims (2000); title: Grand theft auto III (2001); title: Halo : combat evolved (2001); title: Densha de go! Contorller (2002); title: World of warcraft (2004); title: Wii remote (2006); title: Call of duty : modern warfare 2 (2009); title: Minecraft (2011); title: Skylanders (2011); title: Nancy Drew : tomb of the lost queen (2012); title: Pokémon Go (2016); title: That dragon, cancer (2016).