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  • Adventure
    Jamie Lendino
    The sprawl of Adventure. The addictiveness of Breakout. The intensity of Space Invaders.Once upon a time, you could only experience this kind of excitement at the arcade. But in 1977 that changed forever. You, and maybe a friend or a sibling, could instantly teleport from your own living room to a dazzling new world-with nothing more than a small plastic cartridge.This was the ...
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    19,59 €

  • Space Battle
    Jamie Lendino
    From the tense foreboding of Night Stalker to the competitive thrill of NFL Football, Mattel’s Intellivision rocketed into homes across the U.S. in the early 1980s and transformed video gaming. It packed superb arcade action and thrilling family entertainment into one 16-bit system with the industry’s first voice synthesis and controls unlike any other console. Combined with tr...
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    18,47 €

  • Breakout
    Jamie Lendino
    Atari 8-bit computers are the first machines that truly bridged the divide between video game players and home computer enthusiasts. The Atari 400 and 800 signaled the start of a new era in computing. Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation is the first book to cover what made Atari’s groundbreaking computer line great: its excellent graphics and sound, flexibl...
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    21,94 €

  • Starflight
    Jamie Lendino
    No one saw it coming. At its launch in 1981, IBM’s original Personal Computer was an expensive business machine-not a gaming behemoth of the kind you saw from Apple, Atari, Commodore, and Tandy. But by 1990, the PC had trampled all its competitors and become the gaming juggernaut it remains to this day. How did this happen? What did the PC do that the ostensibly superior Commod...
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    21,98 €

  • Attract Mode
    Jamie Lendino
    From their haunts in the shadowy corner of a bar, front and center at a convenience store, or reigning over a massive mall installation bursting with light, sound, and action, arcade games have been thrilling and addicting quarter-bearers of all ages ever since Pong first lit up its paddles. Whether you wanted a few minutes’ quick-twitch exhilaration or the taste of three-initi...
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    24,46 €

  • Faster Than Light
    Jamie Lendino
    'Power Without the Price.' Every Atari fan remembers that slogan from the 1980s as the rallying cry for 16-bit computing in the form of the Atari ST. This groundbreaking computer brought previously unimagined power to the home user for the first time-and transformed an industry or two along the way.Author Jamie Lendino offers a fresh, vital look at the history of the Atari ST, ...
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    22,21 €