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Platform studies / Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort, editors

Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware

the Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Dominic Arsenault

The MIT Press

2017

9780262036566

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Title	Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware : hard the Super Nintendo Entertainment System Platform studies / Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort, editors
Author	Dominic Arsenault
Publisher	The MIT Press
Pub. Date	2017
Price	4,103
Page	x, 226 p.
Size	24 cm
ISBN	9780262036566
Notes	Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-220) and index Summary: "While there have been a great many triumphs written about video games (the first game developed jointly by MIT and Harvard; the wild success of Pong at a rather seedy bar in Sunnyvale, CA; the Golden Age of Videogames; and the growing prominence of video games over screen-based entertainment mediums), there of course had to be failures and the Nintendo SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) was the beginning of Nintendo's downfall. This is a book about Nintendo, and how it lived the "16-bit console wars" that saw it go from being the undisputed industry leader in the 8-bit generation of consoles with more than a 90% market share in 1989 to a marginally leading top player with a 60% share of the video game market at the end of the 16-bit console war, and all the way down to its Nintendo 64 selling a little less than one-third as many units as Sony's dominating PlayStation console. (Malik 1997) Ultimately, it is a critical history of Nintendo's fall from grace, from the height of a period I dub th
Subjects	Nintendo video games -- History Nintendō Kabushiki Kaisha Nintendo of America Inc Video games industry -- History

Contents Note 1	Introduction: Welcome to the Dark Side
Contents Note 2	Establishing the Nintendo Economic System (NES)
Contents Note 3	Minutes to midnight : devising and launching a platform
Contents Note 4	Now You're Playing with Power of Super Power
Contents Note 5	Beyond Bits and Pixels: Inside the Technology
Contents Note 6	The Race to 3D

Contents Note 1	The American Video Game Renessance
Contents Note 2	The CD-Rom That Would Not Be
Contents Note 3	Conclusion: Silver Linings and Golden Dawns

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