Montfort & Bogost raise the bar on anyone wishing to talk meaningfully about computer culture. Not only must we interpret these machines, we must first know how they work -- and yes, sometimes this means knowing assembly code. From chip to controller, the authors lead us with ease through the Atari "2600" Video Computer System, one of the most emblematic devices in recent mass culture. -- Alexander Galloway, Associate Professor of Culture and Communication, New York University, and author of Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization
Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at MIT. He is the author of Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction and Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities; the coauthor of Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System and 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10; and the coeditor of The New Media Reader (all published by the MIT Press). 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).
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
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)
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