Download or read book Hardcore Gaming 101 Digest Vol 1 Strider and Bionic Commando written by Kurt Kalata and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNOFFICIAL AND UNAUTHORIZED! The first digest from video game website Hardcore Gaming 101 covers several topics for retro enthusiasts! Included are full reviews of the Bionic Commando and Strider series, two of Capcom's legendary franchises. Also included are reviews of several Strider-like games such Osman/Cannon Dancer, Run Saber and Moon Diver, as well as various grappling hook themed games like Umihara Kawase, Ninja Five-O and ChainDive. Also included is a look at Famicom games that were ported from Western home computers but not re-imported back for the NES, and capsules reviews of 80 import Japanese PlayStation games!
Download or read book Bionic Commando written by J. B. Stamper and published by Hippo Bks. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bionic Commando written by Stephen Stratton and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: · Bionically-Enhanced Training – It’s been ages since Spencer last took up his bionic arm – long enough that our hero has forgotten more about being a Bionic Commando than most operatives will ever know. Fortunately, Prima’s in-depth training section (pg. 6-13) breaks down all of Spencer’s most basic and advanced moves and abilities, showing how to perform each one with fluid grace. · Tactical Walkthrough – BioReign’s WMD strike has transformed Ascension City into a perilous warzone filled with raging fires, trigger-happy terrorists, and dense pockets of radiation. Only a true Bionic Commando could hope to navigate this mess without perishing – and even the most gifted of operatives would be wise to bring along our huge, strategy-packed walkthrough (pg. 20-134) to ensure they never swing into a hotzone unprepared. · Multiplayer Mastery – The world of onlineBionic Commandois filled with expert operatives who make it look easy as they swing circles around their prey. Learn to do the same and get an arm up on the competition by perusing our nearly 20 pages of multiplayer content (pg 135-152), where you’ll discover an array of multiplayer tactics and advanced, stage-specific strategies. · Extras Revelations (pages 153-160) –Bionic Commandois stuffed with goodies and secrets, and the final pages of Prima’s guide (pg. 152-160) give full disclosure on each and every one. From quick-reference collectibles checklists to insights on how to unlock super-secret content through playingBionic Commando Rearmed, you’ll find a wealth of hardcore knowledge in these last few pages!
Download or read book Bionic Commando written by F. X. Nine and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the adventures of the Nintendo game character as he blasts into action against the forces of Generalissimo Killt, who are set to take over the world once they discover the secrets of Albatros.
Download or read book Game Feel written by Steve Swink and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-10-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Game Feel" exposes "feel" as a hidden language in game design that no one has fully articulated yet. The language could be compared to the building blocks of music (time signatures, chord progressions, verse) - no matter the instruments, style or time period - these building blocks come into play. Feel and sensation are similar building blocks whe
Download or read book The NES Endings Compendium Years 1985 1988 written by Rey Esteban and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented by The Video Game Museum, The NES Endings Compendium presents the endings of Nintendo Entertainment System games from 1985 and 1988. Revisit the memories of completing games like Super Mario Bros., Contra. Castlevania, Blaster Master, Bionic Commando, and many others, all presented in a nostalgic style patterned after 1980s video game magazines!
Download or read book Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman written by Rob Strangman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-06 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join veteran gamer, video game fansite webmaster, and born storyteller, Rob Strangman as he takes you on a tour of some of the most defining moments in video game history as seen through his eyes. From the fall of Atari to the emergence of the Sony PlayStation and beyond, Rob relates tales of the adventures that were had during the golden age of gaming. Rob also discusses his experiences with importing, the ""gamer"" stereotype, and shares his opinions on the current state of gaming. While Rob may have been the original ""Virtual Caveman,"" he certainly wasn't the only one. Included here are many other stories and contributions from gamers both young and old. Also within these pages you will find interviews with many of the gaming industry's veterans: David Crane, Howard Scott Warshaw, Martin Alessi, Yuzo Koshiro, Kouichi ""Isuke"" Yotsui and more.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music written by Melanie Fritsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video game music has been permeating popular culture for over forty years. Now, reaching billions of listeners, game music encompasses a diverse spectrum of musical materials and practices. This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of video game music by a diverse group of scholars and industry professionals. The chapters and summaries consolidate existing knowledge and present tools for readers to engage with the music in new ways. Many popular games are analysed, including Super Mario Galaxy, Bastion, The Last of Us, Kentucky Route Zero and the Katamari, Gran Turismo and Tales series. Topics include chiptunes, compositional processes, localization, history and game music concerts. The book also engages with other disciplines such as psychology, music analysis, business strategy and critical theory, and will prove an equally valuable resource for readers active in the industry, composers or designers, and music students and scholars.
Download or read book Best Before written by James Newman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite record sales and an ever-growing global industry, the simple fact is that videogames are disappearing. Most obviously, the physical deterioration of discs, cartridges, consoles and controllers means that the data and devices will crumble to dust and eventually will be lost forever. However, there is more to the disappearance of videogames than plastic corrosion and bit rot. Best Before examines how the videogames industry's retail, publishing, technology design, advertising and marketing practices actively produce obsolescence, wearing out and retiring old games to make way for the always new, just out of reach, 'coming soon' title and 'next generation' platform. Set against the context of material deterioration and the discursive production of obsolescence, Best Before examines the conceptual and practical challenges faced within the nascent field of game preservation. Understanding videogames as rich, complex and mutable texts and experiences that are supported and sustained by cultures of gameplay and fandom, Best Before considers how - and even whether - we might preserve and present games for future generations.
Download or read book Vintage Game Consoles written by Bill Loguidice and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vintage Game Consoles tells the story of the most influential videogame platforms of all time, including the Apple II, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, Sony PlayStation, and many more. It uncovers the details behind the consoles, computers, handhelds, and arcade machines that made videogames possible. Drawing on extensive research and the authors’ own lifelong experience with videogames, Vintage Game Consoles explores each system’s development, history, fan community, its most important games, and information for collectors and emulation enthusiasts. It also features hundreds of exclusive full-color screenshots and images that help bring each system’s unique story to life. Vintage Game Consoles is the ideal book for gamers, students, and professionals who want to know the story behind their favorite computers, handhelds, and consoles, without forgetting about why they play in the first place – the fun! Bill Loguidice is a critically acclaimed technology author who has worked on over a dozen books, including CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy’s Underdog Computer, written with Boisy G. Pitre. He’s also the co-founder and Managing Director for the popular Website, Armchair Arcade. A noted videogame and computer historian and subject matter expert, Bill personally owns and maintains well over 400 different systems from the 1970s to the present day, including a large volume of associated materials. Matt Barton is an associate professor of English at Saint Cloud State University in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where he lives with his wife Elizabeth. He’s the producer of the "Matt Chat," a weekly YouTube series featuring in-depth interviews with notable game developers. In addition to the original Vintage Games, which he co-authored with Bill, he’s author of Dungeons & Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games and Honoring the Code: Conversations with Great Game Designers.
Download or read book Ultimate Nintendo written by Pat Contri and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimate Nintendo: Guide to the NES Library 1985-1995 is an expansive and thorough look at one of the greatest video game libraries of all time - the Nintendo Entertainment System. This nearly 450-page book covers all 800+ licensed and unlicensed games released during the system's lifespan, and features information and reviews for these classic (and not so classic) 8-bit games.
Download or read book I Am Error written by Nathan Altice and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex material histories of the Nintendo Entertainment System platform, from code to silicon, focusing on its technical constraints and its expressive affordances. In the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System videogame Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, a character famously declared: I AM ERROR. Puzzled players assumed that this cryptic mesage was a programming flaw, but it was actually a clumsy Japanese-English translation of “My Name is Error,” a benign programmer's joke. In I AM ERROR Nathan Altice explores the complex material histories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (and its Japanese predecessor, the Family Computer), offering a detailed analysis of its programming and engineering, its expressive affordances, and its cultural significance. Nintendo games were rife with mistranslated texts, but, as Altice explains, Nintendo's translation challenges were not just linguistic but also material, with consequences beyond simple misinterpretation. Emphasizing the technical and material evolution of Nintendo's first cartridge-based platform, Altice describes the development of the Family Computer (or Famicom) and its computational architecture; the “translation” problems faced while adapting the Famicom for the U.S. videogame market as the redesigned Entertainment System; Nintendo's breakthrough console title Super Mario Bros. and its remarkable software innovations; the introduction of Nintendo's short-lived proprietary disk format and the design repercussions on The Legend of Zelda; Nintendo's efforts to extend their console's lifespan through cartridge augmentations; the Famicom's Audio Processing Unit (APU) and its importance for the chiptunes genre; and the emergence of software emulators and the new kinds of play they enabled.
Download or read book The Video Games Guide written by Matt Fox and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Video Games Guide is the world's most comprehensive reference book on computer and video games. Presented in an A to Z format, this greatly expanded new edition spans fifty years of game design--from the very earliest (1962's Spacewar) through the present day releases on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and PC. Each game entry includes the year of release, the hardware it was released on, the name of the developer/publisher, a one to five star quality rating, and a descriptive review which offers fascinating nuggets of trivia, historical notes, cross-referencing with other titles, information on each game's sequels and of course the author's views and insights into the game. In addition to the main entries and reviews, a full-color gallery provides a visual timeline of gaming through the decades, and several appendices help to place nearly 3,000 games in context. Appendices include: a chronology of gaming software and hardware, a list of game designers showing their main titles, results of annual video game awards, notes on sourcing video games, and a glossary of gaming terms.
Download or read book The Archives written by Aa. Vv. and published by Mimesis. This book was released on 2015-04-21T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital age has witnessed the development of a new kind of archive: immaterial, “living and moving,” largely user-generated, and conceived for managing a wide variety of audio-visual materials, besides traditional films and videos. The first part of this anthology investigates the ways in which media forms like web-documentaries, video art and digital art, web series, amateur productions, and also mobile films can be stored and preserved withinthe new digital repositories. The second part focuses on archival and preservation practices of the video game. This approach understands the archive not simply as a “memory box,” but as a fully contemporary practice that locates new media objects in the present and acknowledges their changing cultural and social configurations. The democratic, often immaterial, living, mobile nature of contemporary archives forces us to question whether or not the traditional notion of “the archive” still has a heuristic value. Or if it would be perhaps better to reject any “conventional” idea of archive and embrace the notion of anarchive.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music written by Melanie Fritsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging survey of video game music creation, practice, perception and analysis - clear, authoritative and up-to-date.
Download or read book Gaming Globally written by N. Huntemann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video games are inherently transnational by virtue of industrial, textual, and player practices. The contributors touch upon nations not usually examined by game studies - including the former Czechoslovakia, Turkey, India, and Brazil - and also add new perspectives to the global hubs of China, Singapore, Australia, Japan, and the United States.
Download or read book Doing Things with Games written by Lindsay D. Grace and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a contemporary foundation in designing social impact games. It is structured in 3 parts: understanding, application, and implementation. The book serves as a guide to designing social impact games, particularly focused on the needs of, media professionals, indie game designers and college students. It serves as a guide for people looking to create social impact play, informed by heuristics in game design. Key Features Provides contemporary guide on the use of games to create social impact for beginner to intermediate practitioners o Provides design and implementation strategies for social impact games Provides wide ranging case studies in social impact games Provides professional advice from multiple social impact industry practitioners via sidebar interviews, quotes, and postmortems Provides a quick start guide on creating a variety of social impact engagements across a wide variety of subjects and aims
