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Racing the Beam
Platform Studies Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort, editors Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System, Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost, 2009
Page 4 and 5: Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost The MI
Page 6: Contents Series Foreword vii Acknow
Page 9 and 10: • an awareness of and discussion
Page 11 and 12: A shout-out goes to the bloggers an
Page 13 and 14: 1982 Atari 5200 introduced; Atari V
Page 15 and 16: eception and operation of computer
Page 17 and 18: specifi c machines can reveal the r
Page 19 and 20: important contributions as well. Ce
Page 21 and 22: game encourages continued play and
Page 23 and 24: 1.1 To play Atari’s Home Pong, th
Page 25 and 26: Design of the Atari VCS The enginee
Page 27 and 28: RAM, the memory programs use to sto
Page 29 and 30: of the basic hardware capabilities
Page 32 and 33: Combat 2 The Atari VCS console was
Page 34 and 35: ROM technologies that are not truly
Page 36 and 37: and the available VCS controllers.
Page 38 and 39: allows for bits 4 (left player, up)
Page 40 and 41: Where VCS Meets TV The processor is
Page 42 and 43: 2.3 The smallest vertical unit in t
Page 44 and 45: For Two Players Combat imitated the
Page 46 and 47: VCS programs. Even when the machine
Page 48 and 49: Game Variations The game’s variat
Page 50 and 51: .BYTE $24 ;Game 1: 0010 0100 TANK .
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Storing a large set of instructions
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two human players, as it had no AI.
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Adventure 3 What video game could b
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computer platforms of the early 198
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PF0 PF1 PF2 bits: bits: bits: 4 5 6
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merely press the joystick in a comp
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of Tank had been developed jointly
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Turning a missile on for the entire
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3.2 If Adventure had used bounding
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3.3 This map of the world in Advent
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why the cursor matches the walls an
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Today, there are perhaps a handful
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different perspective to let the pl
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Pac-Man did fairly well in Japan, b
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More important than the sheer amoun
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equirements of the TIA playfi eld,
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4K ROM provides greater fl exibilit
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Pac-Man would have been unrecogniza
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a very unusual production run, give
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4.3 The VCS Ms. Pac-Man has bonus f
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Yars’ Revenge 5 In 1981 Yars’ R
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power, graphics, and controller set
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Asteroids, on the other hand, makes
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some cases, as important as the ses
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up and down are both laid out in RO
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There are reasons for these intrica
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The Code Zone Yars’ Revenge featu
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Color port of Yars’ Revenge in 19
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mechanic), and up from the bottom (
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[100] our contribution to the compa
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hundred people. These teams are div
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Design Center. The company later ad
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(COLUP0/COLUP1) and graphics (GRP0/
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comprises Combat’s planes, Slot R
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that this idea would make an intere
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As stated here, the high bit of the
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contemplated all at once. It offers
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Another graphical detail can be see
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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
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tribution through Sears, the compan
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In U.S. toy industry reports and tr
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ships, and many other sorts of lucr
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movie are fairly clearly represente
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“original” concept needed to be
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andom in one of a few locations on
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VCS, including Bachelor Party, Beat
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Things could have come about very d
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like the NES, which had two action
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enjoyed so little success in the ma
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endering requirements, the sprite-m
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Afterword on Platform Studies As cr
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een applied to digital media as wel
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tational platforms, such as Ben Fry
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Notes We discuss the technologies u
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25. The discussion that followed th
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9. Alexander, “Video Games Go Cru
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21. Activision’s method is clearl
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Bibliography Texts Aarseth, Espen.
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Herman, Leonard, Jer Horwitz, Steve
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Williams, Geoff. “10 Businesses F
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Higinbotham, William. Tennis for Tw
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Coppola, Francis Ford. The Godfathe
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Alcorn, Al, 7 Amidar (VCS game), 12
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Combat (cont.) handicapping adjustm
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Journey Escape, 124 Joysticks, 22-2
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Pixels, 28, 29 Platforms, 16, 23, 4
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Sports-themed games, 65 Sprite grap
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Yars’ Revenge (VCS game), 81-97 a
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