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1 online resource (154 pages) |
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Landmark video games |
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Landmark video games.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Reading Tempest -- A genealogy of Tempest -- Contexts -- Life after Tempest. |
Summary |
"Atari's 1981 arcade hit Tempest was a "tube shooter" built around glowing, vector-based geometric shapes. Among its many important contributions to both game and cultural history, Tempest was one of the first commercial titles to allow players to choose the game's initial play difficulty (a system Atari dubbed "SkillStep"), a feature that has since became standard for games of all types. Tempest was also one of the most aesthetically impactful games of the twentieth century, lending its crisp, vector aesthetic to many subsequent movies, television shows, and video games. In this book, Ruggill and McAllister enumerate and analyze Tempest's landmark qualities, exploring the game's aesthetics, development context, and connections to and impact on video game history and culture. By describing the game in technical, historical, and ludic detail, they unpack the game's latent and manifest audio-visual iconography and the ideological meanings this iconography evokes."--Publisher's description |
Note |
Print version record. |
Access |
Open Access EbpS |
Subject |
Tempest (Video game)
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Video games -- Design -- History.
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Video games -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Tempest (Jeu)
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Jeux vidéo -- Conception -- Histoire.
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Jeux vidéo -- Aspect social -- États-Unis.
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Digital video: professional.
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Information technology: general issues.
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COMPUTERS -- General.
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Tempest (Video game)
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Video games -- Design
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Video games -- Social aspects
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
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Videospiel
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Ästhetik
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Design
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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History
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Added Author |
McAllister, Ken S., 1966-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Ruggill, Judd Ethan. Tempest. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2015 9780472052691 (DLC) 2015013797 (OCoLC)915496198 |
ISBN |
9780472900107 (electronic bk.) |
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0472900102 (electronic bk.) |
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9780472121144 (ebook) |
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0472121146 |
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9780472121144 |
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9780472052691 |
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0472052691 |
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9780472072699 |
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0472072692 |
Standard No. |
10.3998/lvg.13030180.0001.001 |
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AU@ 000058392952 |
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AU@ 000066533006 |
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DEBSZ 454932197 |
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GBVCP 865794308 |
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