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Astrosmash, Snafu, Star Strike, Utopia—do these names sound familiar to you? No? Maybe? They were all videogames created for the Intellivision videogame system, sold by Mattel Electronics between 1979 and 1984. This system was Atari’s main rival during a key period when videogames were moving from the arcades into the home. In Intellivision, Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman tell the fascinating inside story of this overlooked gaming system. Along the way, they also analyze Intellivision’s chips and code, games, marketing and business strategies, organizational and social history, and the cultural and economic context of the early US games industry from the mid-1970s to the great videogame industry crash of 1983.
While many remember Atari, Intellivision has largely been forgotten. As such, Intellivision fills a crucial gap in videogame scholarship, telling the story of a console that sold millions and competed aggressively against Atari. Drawing on a wealth of data from both institutional and personal archives and over 150 interviews with programmers, engineers, executives, marketers, and designers, Boellstorff and Soderman examine the relationship between videogames and toys—an under-analyzed aspect of videogame history—and discuss the impact of home computing on the rise of videogames, the gendered implications of play and videogame design at Mattel, and the blurring of work and play in the early games industry.
Astrosmash, Snafu, Star Strike, Utopia—do these names sound familiar to you? No? Maybe? They were all videogames created for the Intellivision videogame system, sold by Mattel Electronics between 1979 and 1984. This system was Atari’s main rival during a key period when videogames were moving from the arcades into the home. In Intellivision, Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman tell the fascinating inside story of this overlooked gaming system. Along the way, they also analyze Intellivision’s chips and code, games, marketing and business strategies, organizational and social history, and the cultural and economic context of the early US games industry from the mid-1970s to the great videogame industry crash of 1983.
While many remember Atari, Intellivision has largely been forgotten. As such, Intellivision fills a crucial gap in videogame scholarship, telling the story of a console that sold millions and competed aggressively against Atari. Drawing on a wealth of data from both institutional and personal archives and over 150 interviews with programmers, engineers, executives, marketers, and designers, Boellstorff and Soderman examine the relationship between videogames and toys—an under-analyzed aspect of videogame history—and discuss the impact of home computing on the rise of videogames, the gendered implications of play and videogame design at Mattel, and the blurring of work and play in the early games industry.
Series Foreword
Notes on Orthography, Terms, Abbreviations, and Style
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Intelligent Visions
Part I: Formations
1 From Toys to Technology at Mattel
2 The Master Component
3 The Keyboard Component
4 Mattel’s Marketing Magic
Part II: Practices
5 Ladders of Game Production
6 Becoming a Videogame Programmer at Mattel
7 Constraints, Trade-Offs, and Affordances
8 Boom
Part III: Extensions
9 Intellivoice
10 The ECS
11 PlayCable
12 Transplatform
13 Crash
Aftercrash
Appendix: Intellivision Hardware Timeline
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | EDV |
| Genre: | Importe, Informatik |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Thema: | Lexika |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780262549509 |
| ISBN-10: | 0262549506 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: |
Soderman, Braxton
Boellstorff, Tom |
| Hersteller: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 228 x 154 x 32 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Braxton Soderman (u. a.) |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 05.11.2024 |
| Gewicht: | 0,522 kg |
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