Game Studies Seminar

Spring 2011

Documents

• Syllabus, Policies, and Schedule - Updated January 17, 2011
• Academic Honesty

Assignment

• A Year in the History of Video Games (item 9 in the syllabus)

Resources

• Spacewar! - The 1962 original, now in JavaScript.
• AtariAge - Have You Played Atari Today?
• javAtari - An Atari 2600 emulator written in pure Java
• Atari 2600 ROMs - from AtariAge
• Atari 2600 Links and References from Ian Bogost
• Retrogaming Times
• International Game Developers Association

Articles

• All About Pac Man
• Exploring the actual Colossal Cove in code and in Kentucky
• NYT: Video Game Industry Seeks Political Clout
• Anda's Game by Cory Doctorow
• The Wii Loop Machine
• The Expurgation of Maniac Mansion for the NES
• Videogames & Futurama, Part 1: Raiders of the Lost Arcade
• Secrets of Enemy AI
• Adventure Classic Gaming
• Space War and Xerox PARC - 1972 Rolling Stone article

• Zelda's Early History
• The Story of Infocom from MIT
• A Long History of Infocom from MIT
• Some Atari History via the DadHacker Blog
  • Donkey Kong and Me
  • The Atari ST - part one
  • The Atari ST - part two

Books

• Racing the Beam - by Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost