TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dillon,Roberto
TI  - The golden age of video games: the birth of a multi-billion dollar industry 
SN  - 9781439873236 (pbk.)
U1  - 794.8 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Boca Raton, FL
PB  - CRC Press
KW  - Video games
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic games
KW  - Computer games
KW  - Video games industry
N1  - "With a foreword by Ted Dabney"--on cover; Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Part I -- The Beginning -- The Firs: Commercial Game and the First Home Console -- Atari, Pong, and the Jackals -- Pong Goes Home -- Home Consoles -- Meanwhile, in Japan... -- Computers Go Home Too! -- Games That Pushed Boundaries I -- Part II -- 1983: The Crash -- Computers, Computers, Computers -- Atari and Commodore: from Here, Where? -- Nintendo Gives Consoles an Extra Life: the NES, ROB, and Super Mario -- New Competition: the Sega Master System -- Games That Pushed Boundaries II -- Part III -- The Beginning of a New Era -- New Generations with Some of the Same Old Problems -- 1991: Sony and Nintendo? -- The PC Becomes Gaming Mature -- Games That Pushed Boundaries III -- Epilogue -- Game Over -- Press Start to Continue
ER  -