From the (e)Bookshelf: They Create Worlds Volume 1

Via The Digital Antiquarian, I picked up a while ago on another weblog looking at old computer games, but with a wider scope encompassing arcades and video game consoles as well and in even more detail. Even if I’ve never owned a game console and became familiar with arcade games through limited-palette knockoffs for our family home computer, the thought of knowing a bit more did interest me. Just as the narrative at “They Create Worlds” was approaching “Pong,” though, the updates there ceased. Then, one day the RSS reader I hadn’t stopped tracking the weblog with through a “just in case” laziness reported a new entry, explaining its author Alexander Smith had converted his work into a genuine book covering far past where he’d left off online. The wrinkle was that he’d gone through an academic publisher (CRC Press, who had brought out a book about the Radio Shack Color Computer some years ago), and the volume was pretty pricy.
( Created worlds )