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Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution Hardcover - 2000

by Steven Poole


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For many, videogames are still viewed as a minor form of entertainment, shallow at best, harmful at worst. In this groundbreaking book, Steven Poole draws on movies, painting, history, and literature to analyze what he calls the "inner life" of videogames. Traveling to Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Cannes, he interviews leading figures in the industry, including Jeremy Smith, head of Core Design (home of Lara Croft) and Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari. Tracing their history in order to predict where they are headed, he argues that videogames are a revolutionary force in popular culture. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, videogames are where movies were at the dawn of the twentieth. With increasing investments of talent, capital, and technological creativity, they will become an art form in their own right.Hailed as "eloquent," "essential reading," and "a seminal work" Trigger Happy provides every reader with a thoughtful, witty, and insightful analysis of what makes videogames work. For the uninitiated, it offers an eye-opening and highly instructive look at an entertainment phenomenon that will become more and more a part of our everyday world.

From the publisher

The Edge calls "Trigger Happy" a "seminal piece of work". For the first time ever, an aficionado with a knowledge of art, culture, and a real love of gaming takes a critical look at the future of our videogames, and compares their aesthetic and economic impact on society to that of film. Thirty years after the invention of the simplest of games, more videogames are played by adults than children. This revolutionary book is the first-ever academically worthy and deeply engaging critique of one of today's most popular forms of play: videogames are on track to supersede movies as the most innovative form of entertainment in the new century.

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  • Title Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution
  • Author Steven Poole
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Arcade Publishing, New York, NY
  • Date September 29, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781559705394 / 1559705396
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.56 x 6.39 x 0.96 in (24.28 x 16.23 x 2.44 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Video games, Video games - Social aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00044799
  • Dewey Decimal Code 794.809
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