Before the Crash: Early Video Game History

by Mark J.P. Wolf and Jessica Aldred

Following the first appearance of arcade video games in 1971 and home video game systems in 1972, the commercial video game market was exuberant with fast-paced innovation and profit. New games, gaming systems, and technologies flooded into the market until around 1983, when sales of home game systems dropped, thousands of arcades closed, and major video game makers suffered steep losses or left the market altogether. In Before the Crash: Early...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814334504
• ISBN13: 9780814334508
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"