[game_preservation] Mainframe games resource

[Henry Lowood]

Devin,

at the risk of self-promotion:

"A Brief Biography of Computer Games," in: Playing Computer Games: 
Motives, Responses, and Consequences, eds. Peter Vorderer and 
Jennings Bryant. (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006): 25-41.

Henry

At 10:15 AM 4/9/2008, Captain Commando wrote:

>I'm working on a new historical document about early computer games 

>but don't have a lot of resources on the topic. Does anyone know of 

>a resource (book, website, database, etc) that documents computer 

>games from 1972 and earlier? There aren't too many resources I've 

>been able to find, but I know there had to have been some 

>influential games between 1962 and 1972 other than Spacewar and 

>Spacewar hacks (of course, documentation of these is appreciated as 

>well!). While I'm specifically interested in the period of 

>1962-1972, if the resource has interesting information that expands 

>beyond that time period, I would of course be interested!

>

>Thanks for any help!

>

>Devin Monnens

>

>--

>The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

>

>"Until next time..."

>Captain Commando

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Henry Lowood, Ph.D.
Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;
  Film & Media Collections
HRG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford CA 94305-6004
650-723-4602; lowood at stanford.edu; http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood 
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