Eugene Jarvis: King of the Arcade
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Availability:In StockContributor:Matthew Thomas Payne, Carly A. Kocurek (Editor), Jennifer Dewinter (Editor)Series:Influential Video Game DesignersPublish date:2025-02-20Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765113547UPC:9798765113547Book Category:Computers, Games & Activities, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Programming, Video & Mobile, Media StudiesBook Topic:GamesSize:8.45 x 5.65 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.7804Product ID:SC7C7M02HE
Eugene Jarvis: King of the Arcade
This book explores the influential work of Eugene Jarvis, designer of the wildly-successful arcade games Defender, Robotron: 2084, NARC, Smash TV, and Cruis'n USA, among others.
Embracing a variety of genres across decades, the video games of Eugene Jarvis offer a series of design lessons in how to craft coin-operated game machines that can survive and thrive even as the arcade was disappearing...Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765113547UPC:9798765113547Book Category:Computers, Games & Activities, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Programming, Video & Mobile, Media StudiesBook Topic:GamesSize:8.45 x 5.65 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.7804Product ID:SC7C7M02HE
Matthew Thomas Payne is Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, USA. He is author of Playing War: Military Video Games after 9/ 11 (2016), co-author of Ultima & Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game (2024) and is co-editor of How to Play Video Games (2019), Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence (2011)...
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Matthew Thomas Payne, Carly A. Kocurek (Editor), Jennifer Dewinter (Editor)
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