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"Andrew Ervin slaloms through their cultural and technological history, from physicist William Higinbotham's 1958 analog simulation Tennis for Two to Atari classics, arcade stalwart Pac-Man and the Warcraft franchise.

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Video games have seemingly taken over our lives. Whereas gamers once constituted a small and largely male subculture, today 67 percent of American households play video games. The average gamer is now thirty-four years old and spends eight hours each week playing-and there is a 40 percent chance this person is a woman. In BIT BY BIT, Andrew Ervin sets out to understand the explosive popularity of video games. He travels to government laboratories, junk shops, and arcades. He interviews scientists and game designers, both old and young. In charting the material and technological history of video games, from the 1950s to the present, he suggests that their appeal starts and ends with the sense of creativity they instil in gamers. As Ervin argues, games can be art because they are beautiful, moving, and even political.

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Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780465039708
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Author
Andrew Ervin
Publication Name
Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Computer Science
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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221mm
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143mm
Item Weight
416g

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Andrew Ervin
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United States

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