Replay: The History of Video Games (81 page)

Interview with Ted Dabney, co-founder of Atari

4. Chewing Gum, Bailing Wire And Spit

Arcade History (no date) [Online]
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[Last accessed: 2 March 2010]

Information on coin-operated games

‘Coin-operated game outrages safety council’ (1977)
The Blade
. Toledo, Ohio. Saturday 1 January 1977. p4

Controversy about Death Race

‘Computer game for morbid fans’ (1976).
The Kingman Daily Miner.
Kingman, Arizona. Friday 1 July 1976, p11

Controversy about Death Race

‘Death Race popularity grows’ (1977)
Spokane Daily Chronicle.
Spokane, Washington. Tuesday 9 August 1977, p6

Controversy increases Death Race sales

Greene, Bob (1976) ‘Death Race: You pay quarter and try to kill pedestrian’.
The Free Lance-Star.
Fredericksburg, Virginia. Wednesday 27 October 1976, p2

Controversy about Death Race

Bally Flicker (1975) [Promotional Flyer] Bally Manufacturing Co.

Information about the Flicker pinball table

Hardwick, M. Jeffrey (2004)
Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream
. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press

Biography of Victor Gruen, the inventor of the modern shopping mall

Nürburgring/1 (1976) [Promotional Flyer] Dr.-Ing. Reiner Foerst GmbH

Information on Nürburgring/1

Nürburgring/1 and Nürburgring/2 (1976) [Promotional flyer] Dr.-Ing. Reiner Foerst GmbH

Information on Nürburgring/1

Old Computers (no date) [Online]
http://old-computers.com
[Last accessed: 2 March 2010]

Information on 1970s computers and consoles

Podfather
(2009) [TV broadcast] London: BBC Four, 12 October 2009. GMT: 21.00

The history of the microprocessor

‘Steve Jobs profile: Apple’s hard core’ (2009)
Scotland on Sunday
. 11 January 2009. [Online]
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[Last accessed: 6 March 2010]

Profile of Steve Jobs

5. The Biggest Eureka Moment Ever

Ahl, David H. (editor) (1978)
BASIC Computer Games: Microcomputer Edition
. New York, New York: Workman Publishing.

Pre-home computer games and background about their creation

Bagnall, Brian (2007)
On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore
. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Variant Press

History of Commodore

Barton, Matt (2008)
Dungeons & Desktops
. Wellesley, Massachusetts: A K Peters

Background on pre-home computer role-playing games, including Pedit5

Briggs, Andrew (1983) ‘Meet the men behind Infocom’s mask’.
Micro Adventurer,
November 1983, pp10-11

Interview with Infocom

‘Commodore International Ltd’ (1993)
International Directory of Company Histories
, Volume 7, St. James Press, 1993. [Online]
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[Last accessed: 11 March 2010]

History of Commodore

Computer History Museum (no date)
Mastering the Game: A History of Computer Chess
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History of computer chess research

Crawford, Chris (1982) ‘Eastern Front (1941)’. In: Salen, Katie and Zimmerman, Eric (editors) (2006)
The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. pp714-724

Background on early computer stragy games

DigiBarn Computer Museum (2004) ‘Maze War 30 Year Retrospective’. 7 November 2004. [Online]
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History of Maze / Maze War

Dingler, David A. (2006) ‘Where flight simulation really began’. FlightSim.com. 10 January 2006. [Online]
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History of flight simulations

‘Gaming Our Way Through History: The Oregon Trail: Education, Nostalgia, and Memory’ (no date) American Studies Program, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. [Online]
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Background on The Oregon Trail game

Hafner, Katie (1994) ‘Will Crowther Interview’. The Internet Archive. [Online]
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Interview with Will Crowther

Jerz, Dennis G. (2007) ‘Somewhere nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther’s original Adventure in code and in Kentucky’.
Digital Humanities Quarterly.
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History of Will Crowther’s Adventure

Library Information Network (no date) ‘A bibliography of the Edwin A. Link Collection of the Evans Library at Florida Institute of Technology’. [Online]
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Background on Edwin A. Link

Microchess (no date) [Mail order form] Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Micro-Ware Ltd.

Information of Micro-Ware

O’Neill, Judy (1990) ‘An interview with William Crowther’. 12 March 1990. Charles Babbage Institute, Centre for the History of Information Processing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. [Online]
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Interview with Will Crowther about his non-game work

Poundstone, William (2006) ‘Game theory’. In: Salen, Katie and Zimmerman, Eric (editors) (2006)
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Background on Kriegsspiel

Rheingold, Howard (1991)
Virtual Reality.
1992 edition. London: Mandarin Paperbacks.

Background on flight simulation history

‘Sierra On-Line Inc.’ (1996)
International Directory of Company Histories
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History of Sierra On-Line

Smith, Steve (1994)
PC Pilot: The Complete Guide to Computer Aviation
. New York, New York: Avon Books

Background on early flight simulations

‘The Joy of Computer Gaming’ (1983) In:
The Best of 99’er Volume 1
(1983). Eugene, Oregon: Emerald Valley Publishing Co., pp223-225

Notes confusion about what to do with home computers

Thompson, Greg (2004) The amazing history of Maze – it’s a small world after-all. [Presentation] Vintage Computer Festival, Mountain View, California. 7 November 2004. [Online]
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History of Maze / Maze War

Wells, H.G. (1913)
Little Wars
. 2004 edition. Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger Publishing

The sci-fi author’s Kriegsspiel rule book

Wozniak, Steve with Smith, Gina (2006)
iWoz
. 2007 paperback edition. London, UK: Headline Review

Steve Wozniak’s account of Apple’s formation and the creation of the Apple II computer

6. High-Strung Prima Donnas

Amis, Martin (1982)
Invasion of the Space Invaders
. London, UK: Hutchinson & Co.

The success of Space Invaders. And yes, it is that Martin Amis

‘Ask Hal: Frequently asked questions to the Blue Sky Rangers’ (no date)
IntellivisionLives.com
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[Last accessed: 6 March 2010]

Details on Mattel’s move into home consoles

Atlas, Terry (1978) ‘Simon toy an elusive bestseller’.
Evening Independent
. St Petersburg, Florida. Thursday 21 December 1978. p5-C

Simon sells out

Baer, Ralph H. (2005)
Videogames: In the Beginning
. Springfield, New Jersey: Rolenta Press

The creation of Simon

Bloom, Steve (1983) ‘Parker Brothers strikes back’.
Video Games
, Volume 1, Number 4, January 1983. pp50-53 & 56

Parker Brothers’ involvement in the handheld business
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Cook, Wanda (1979) ‘Electronic games a real challenge’.
The Blade
. Toledo, Ohio. Thursday 6 December 1979. p41

The popularity of handheld games in the late 1970s

DeMaria, Rusel and Wilson, Johnny L. (2002)
High Score! The Illustrated History of Electronic Games
. Berkeley, California: McGraw-Hill/Osborne

Background on Space Invaders and early consoles

Edwards, Benj (2009) ‘Jerry Lawson, Black Video Game Pioneer’.
Vintage Computing and Gaming
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