Download free comics » Graphic Novels » Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master: Pong, Atari, and the Dawn of the Video Game

Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master: Pong, Atari, and the Dawn of the Video Game

Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master: Pong, Atari, and the Dawn of the Video Game
Publisher: Graphic Novels / Others
Language: English
Date: 2022
Number of pages: 106
Format: EPUB
00
The gripping origin story of Pong, Atari, and the digital icons who defined the world of video games.

A deep, nostalgic dive into the advent of gaming, Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master returns us to the emerging culture of Silicon Valley. At the center of this graphic history, dynamically drawn in colors inspired by old computer screens, is the epic feud that raged between Atari founder Nolan Bushnell and inventor Ralph Baer for the title of “father of the video game.”

While Baer, a Jewish immigrant whose family fled Germany for America, developed the first TV video-game console and ping-pong game in the 1960s, Bushnell, a self-taught whiz kid from Utah, put out Atari’s pioneering table-tennis arcade game, Pong, in 1972. Thus, a prolonged battle began over who truly spearheaded the multibillion-dollar gaming industry, and around it a sweeping narrative about invention, inspiration, and the seeds of digital revolution.

Download Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master: Pong, Atari, and the Dawn of the Video Game




EPUB (62.0 MB)
Information
Users of Guests are not allowed to comment this publication.
RSS
2020-2024. All comics on the site are laid out only for informational purposes.