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The ultimate history of video games

Print Book, English, 2002
Random House International ; Hi Marketing, New York, London, 2002
History
528 pages ; 24 cm
9780761536437, 0761536434
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Forewordvii
Peter Molyneux
Acknowledgmentsviii
Timelinexi
The World Before Pong
1(14)
Forgotten Fathers
15(12)
Father of the Industry
27(10)
And Then There Was Pong
37(12)
The King and Court
49(10)
The Jackals
59(20)
``Could You Repeat That Two More Times?''
79(14)
Strange Bedfellows
93(22)
The Return of Bushnell
115(8)
The Golden Age (Part 1: 1979-1980)
123(28)
The Golden Age (Part 2: 1981-1983)
151(28)
The Battle for the Home
179(20)
A Case of Two Gorillas
199(20)
The Fall
219(22)
The Aftermath
241(18)
Album Covers
259(18)
We Tried to Keep from laughing
277(18)
The Seeds of Competition
295(36)
The Birth of Sega
331(14)
The New Empire
345(22)
The Legal Game
367(30)
The Year of Hardware
397(24)
Run for the Money
421(18)
The War
439(22)
Moral Kombat
461(20)
The ``Next'' Generation (Part 1)
481(18)
The ``Next'' Generation (Part 2)
499(28)
The Mainstream and All Its Perils
527(30)
And the Cycle Continues
557(16)
Three Horses and a Pony
573(19)
Source Notes592(5)
Index597