Racing the Beam, The Atari Video Computer System, a book by Georgia Tech Associate Professor Ian Bogost, takes a look at the development of the first popular video game platform through the lens of six game cartridges to show how the developers of those games, for better or worse, laid the ground work for the industry Atari helped spawn. Those games are Combat, Adventure, Pac-Man, Yars’ Revenge, Pitfall! and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. The book is the third by Bogost on video games and the first he’s co-written with MIT’s Nick Montfort. With this book, the pair...
