Platform Studies: Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System

from neuroklinik

A decent early effort in the platform studies genre, this book suffers a touch due to a disorganized feel and shortage of content. While there's a good mix of both technical and contextual/historical information, I believe this book could've easily been at least twice the length, going deeper int...

from phlll

When I was a kid, I wanted to make Atari games when I grew up.Stupid kid. :)This book goes through some high-level review of the challenges presented by trying to program the Atari 2600, and uses six specific games to tell about how the programmers figured out more of how to make the system into ...

from JonathanGorman

Pretty interesting, alternating between history and technical details. This is a little lopsided, as more of the technical details occur early on. If you're a gaming history buff, you might just want to skim the first chapter or two. I must admit, I like the fact they included a couple of my favo...

from JonathanGorman

Pretty interesting, alternating between history and technical details. This is a little lopsided, as more of the technical details occur early on. If you're a gaming history buff, you might just want to skim the first chapter or two. I must admit, I like the fact they included a couple of my favo...

from mrgan

A curious history of the Atari 2600 - highly technical at times, rather light on the surrounding history and drama.