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Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America (The MIT Press) eBooks & eLearning

Posted by First1 at July 3, 2018

The cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over pinball and television (but possibly harmful)Beginning with the release of the Magnavox Odyssey and Pong in 1972, video games, whether played in arcades and taverns or in family rec rooms, became part of popular culture, like television. In fact, video games were sometimes seen as an improvement on television because they spurred participation rather than passivity.

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One Hundred One Atari Computer Programming Tips and Tricks eBooks & eLearning

Posted by leonardo78 at Oct. 10, 2016

One Hundred One Atari Computer Programming Tips and Tricks by Alan North
Publisher: Arcsoft Pub | 1982 | ISBN: 0866680225 | 128 pages | PDF | 22 MB

This book is designed as an idea starter and thought provoker for beginners and newcomers, as well as advanced novices and student programmers, who have read the manual which came with the ATARI Model 400 or Model 800 personal computer and have read something very elementary on BASIC programming and now need some good ideas.

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Atari 2600 Full Set Games

Posted by alpha001 at Feb. 29, 2008

Atari 2600 Full Set Games Library
2687 Roms | .bin (Atari2600 rom format) | 2.9Mb

This pack contains all known Atari 2600 Roms

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Atari ST The Complete Manual – 24 October 2015 Magazines

Posted by Pulitzer at Oct. 24, 2015

Atari ST The Complete Manual – 24 October 2015
English | 99 pages | PDF | 98.9 MB

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Once Upon Atari Movies

Posted by at Feb. 13, 2022

Once Upon Atari (2003)
In the late 70s and early 80s, ET phoned home on Atari 2600 and became the video game that New Media magazine later described as having toppled a billion dollar industry. We know the industry rose again as a pale, commercial version of its old self, but… did you ever wonder what it was like back in the wild days when the titans of gaming clashed, not on Wall Street, but inside the minds of designers? Want to learn first hand how the barren valley south of The Bay gave birth to cult celebrity that died as quickly as it was born? Take the ride with the folks who made it happen. Walk on walls, smoke the evil weed, and plunge head first into the uncharted (undocumented) world that was game production back in the bad old days.

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Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Jeembo at June 11, 2018

Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America by Michael Z. Newman
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0262035715 | 264 Pages | PDF | 18.3 MB

The cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over pinball and television (but possibly harmful)

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Retro Pop Culture A to Z: From Atari 2600 to Zombie Films eBooks & eLearning

Posted by step778 at June 8, 2020

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Godot 4: Design & Code A Retro Atari Style 2D Game, Seaquest eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Sigha at Aug. 31, 2024

Godot 4: Design & Code A Retro Atari Style 2D Game, Seaquest
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English (US) | Size: 4.33 GB | Duration: 12h 57m

Learn how to create a complete shoot em' up game based on SeaQuest from start to finish in Godot 4.

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Atari: Game Over Movies

Posted by at Sept. 13, 2021

Atari: Game Over (2014)
The Xbox Originals documentary that chronicles the fall of the Atari Corporation through the lens of one of the biggest mysteries of all time, dubbed “The Great Video Game Burial of 1983.” Rumor claims that millions of returned and unsold E.T. cartridges were buried in the desert, but what really happened there?

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Atari to Zelda: Japan's Videogames in Global Contexts eBooks & eLearning

Posted by IrGens at Feb. 6, 2018

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