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The Guy Who Invented Home Video Games by Wyckoff, Edwin Brit Edition ILL, 0 $25.99 Read about Ralph Baer and find out how he invented the first video games. |
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The Guy Who Invented Home Video Games By Wyckoff, Edwin Brit $34.07 Profiles the inventor of the first video games, Ralph Baer. Author: Wyckoff, Edwin Brit Series Title: Genius at Work Great Inventor Biographies Subtitle: Ralph Baer and His Awesome Invention Publication Date: 2010/09/01 Number of Pages: 32 Binding Type: Library Grade Level: 34 Language: English Depth: 0.50 Width: 7.75 Height: 9.25 |
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Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter $13.39 Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent untold hours in front of his various video game consoles playing titles such as Far Cry 2 Left 4 Dead BioShock and Oblivion for literally days. If you are reading this flap copy the same thing can probably be said of you or of someone you know. Until recently Bissell was somewhat reluctant to admit to his passion for games. In this he is not alone. Millions of adults spend hours every week playing video games and the industry itself now reliably outearns Hollywood. But the wider culture seems to regard video games as at best well designed if mindless entertainment. Extra Lives is an impassioned defense of this assailed and misunderstood art form. Bissell argues that we are in a golden age of gaming-but he also believes games could be even better. He offers a fascinating and often hilarious critique of the ways video games dazzle and just as often frustrate. Along the way we get firsthand portraits of some of the best minds (Jonathan Blow Clint Hocking Cliff Bleszinski Peter Molyneux) at work in video game design today as well as a shattering and deeply moving final chapter that describes in searing detail Bissell"s descent into the world of Grand Theft Auto IV a game whose themes mirror his own increasingly self-destructive compulsions. Blending memoir criticism and first-rate reportage Extra Lives is like no other book on the subject ever published. Whether you love video games loathe video games or are merely curious about why they are becoming the dominant popular art form of our time Extra Lives is required reading. From the Hardcover edition. |
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The Meaning of Video Games $36.95 The Meaning of Video Games takes a textual studies approach to an increasingly important form of expression in today’s culture. It begins by assuming that video games are meaningful–not just as sociological or economic or cultural evidence, but in their own right, as cultural expressions worthy of scholarly attention. In this way, this book makes a contribution to the study of video games, but it also aims to enrich textual studies. Early video game studies scholars were quick to point out that a game should never be reduced to merely its "story" or narrative content and they rightly insist on the importance of studying games as games. But here Steven E. Jones demonstrates that textual studies–which grows historically out of ancient questions of textual recension, multiple versions, production, reproduction, and reception–can fruitfully be applied to the study of video games. Citing specific examples such as Myst and Lost , Katamari Damacy , Halo , Façade , Nintendo’s Wii , and Will Wright’s Spore , the book explores the ways in which textual studies concepts–authorial intention, textual variability and performance, the paratext, publishing history and the social text–can shed light on video games as more than formal systems. It treats video games as cultural forms of expression that are received as they are played, out in the world, where their meanings get made. |
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Fun Inc.: Why games are the 21st Century's most serious business $7.37 <p>'Tom Chatfield's <i>Fun Inc.</i> is the most elegant and comprehensive defence of the status of computer games in our culture I have read, as well as a helpful compendium of research ... The numbers surrounding the sector are certainly thudding. By the end of 2008, annual sales of video games - not including consoles or devices - was $40 billion, comfortably outstripping the movie business. In the same year, Nintendo's employees were more profitable per head than Google's. The sheer pervasiveness of game experience - 99 per cent of teenage boys and 94 per cent of teenage girls having played a video game - means that instant naffness falls upon those who express a musty disdain for the medium. In fact, as <i>Fun Inc</i>. elegantly explains, computer game-playing has a very strong claim to be one of the most vital test-beds for intellectual enquiry.'</p><p> <i><b>Independent</b></i></p> |
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Password (Video Games) $76.47 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. n many video games of the 8 and 16bit eras, after a level was beaten and/or when all continues were used, the game would display a password, that when entered in the game would allow the player to return back to this part in the game. This way, nothing needed to be written on the cartridge, as the password itself contained all the information needed to continue the game. The password was used in cartridge based systems generally to lower costs, since the memory card was built in to the cartridge, often doubling the manufacturing cost. Passwords helped to keep production costs down on low volume titles by smaller thirdparty developers. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Publication Date: 2011/03/30 Language: English Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.23 inches |
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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Video Game Workouts - Important Facts You Need to Know
And video game makers finally got the idea: The joystick is simply not enough. Even their video game followers and fanatics must get exercise, too. So they came up with programs that involved more than the use of hands and eyes. By inventing video games that involved standing instead of sitting and dancing or exercising instead of simply using their eyes, they spawned a certain level of fitness consciousness among those who don't normally find the time to exercise. One video game fitness program in the market today even allowed players to interact with trainers as they perform balance and calorie-burning exercises.
But can video game fitness replace traditional workouts? The answers are varied depending on which side of the spectrum you are on. There are always two sides to any issue. If you're contemplating on using video games as part of your regimen or if you want to introduce a more active form of playing computer games to your getting-obese teen, here are the pros and cons. They're well worth a look before you can make a final decision.
Pros
1. Video game fitness programs introduce young people to exercise in a fun environment. It can be difficult to make teenagers understand the benefits of working out, especially if you have to pull them away from their favorite hobby in order to do so. With these programs, exercise and fun are integrated seamlessly into each other, encouraging the usually-sedentary video game enthusiast to move and thus reap the benefits of exercise.
2. These programs are a stress-free way for overweight teenagers and adults to start getting back in shape.
3. It has the element of competition that encourages players to perform their personal best in every game. The more intense they become in their workout, the more calories they burn.
4. It makes for fun family fitness. These games are an ideal way to keep everyone in the family fit and healthy. It also promotes family bonding.
Cons
1. Video game fitness programs, like any other computer game, can get boring after a while. Companies must continually design programs to capture the interest of players.
2. These programs do not give the kind of motivation an individual needs to stick with the regimen for the long-term. Video game players only do these exercises because they're fun, like any other game they do on the computer. Only when they are made to understand the importance of exercise can they find enough motivation to continue with it for the long-term.
3. It does not give the same quality of exercise compared to traditional workouts. These programs do not really challenge the body the way a regular workout does where you get the chance to increase the intensity of your workout sessions. Regular workouts also allow you to choose the regimen that you need to work on to improve a particular aspect of physical fitness. Computer programs limit your choices.
4. It teaches nothing about making lifestyle or dietary changes that everyone needs to do in order to stay fit and healthy. In the eyes of the player, this is just a game and like any game that can tire, it becomes perfectly all right for them to just grab a can of soda or munch on chips before, during and after their game. It then becomes counterproductive.
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