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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System

Name: Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System
Author: Nick Montfort
ISBN: 9780262261524

by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost

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Overview

A study of the relationship between platform and creative expression in the Atari VCS.

About the Author, Nick Montfort

Nick Montfort is Associate Professor of Digital Media at MIT and the coauthor of Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (MIT Press, 2009).

Ian Bogost is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC, and the coauthor of Newsgames: Journalism at Play (MIT Press, 2010).

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"Read it, it will do you good." — José P. Zagal, Game Studies

" Racing the Beam doesn"t spare the technical details, but is always accessible and compelling. Downright thrilling at times, in fact, a sort of The Right Stuff of video game development." Darren Zenko thestar.com (Toronto Star)

Seth Perlow

"Montfort and Bogost's analysis is both technically detailed and historically contextualized, both informative and methodologically instructive. They write with a rigor and grace that future contributors to the series may be at pains to match." — Seth Perlow,Convergence