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200 10$aTempest $egeometries of play /$fJudd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister
205   $a1st ed.
210  1$aAnn Arbor :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$d2015.
215   $a1 online resource (167 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s)
225 1 $aLandmark video games
225 1 $aDigitalculturebooks
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311 08$aPrint version: 9780472072699 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aContents; List of Figures; Introduction; One: Reading Tempest; Two: A Genealogy of Tempest; Three: Contexts; Four: Life after Tempest; Five: Conclusion; Appendixes; Appendix A: Relevant Software and Hardware Companies Created between 1979 and 1982; Appendix B: Arcade Machines Released between 1979 and 1982; Notes; Works Cited; Index
330   $aAtari's 1981 arcade hit  Tempest  was a ?tube shooter? built around glowing, vector-based geometric shapes. Among its many important contributions to both game and cultural history,  Tempest  was one of the first commercial titles to allow players to choose the game's initial play difficulty (a system Atari dubbed ?SkillStep?), a feature that has since became standard for games of all types. Tempest  was also one of the most aesthetically impactful games of the twentieth century, lending its crisp, vector aesthetic to many subsequent movies, television shows, and video games. In this book, Ruggill and McAllister enumerate and analyse Tempest's landmark qualities, exploring the game's aesthetics, development context, and connections to and impact on video game history and culture. By describing the game in technical, historical, and ludic detail, they unpack the game's latent and manifest audio-visual iconography and the ideological meanings this iconography evokes.
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