Screen Play

This book is a history and overview of the video game industy. From there rise in popularity to the design and manufacture of the games, it tells the story of how they grew in popularity to becoming one of the biggest businesses in the world, dominating arcades and home televisions. In the first chapter it looks at the rise of games from chess to dice to games that are downloaded to the Atari Video Coomputer System (VCS), through a phone line. Then looks at the teaching possibilties of these electronic games. The second section of the book tells how they work and the invention of the…