ELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER GAMES.
The article examines the history and development of interactive computer games. It states that the earliest known computer games were developed in the early 1960s in U.S. computing institutions, using DEC microcomputers. Computer programmers known as hackers, were the first to exploit the use of com...
| Publicado en: | Screen Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 52 - 74 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Spring88
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