title: Adventure: The Atari 2600 Game Journal
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  # Atari Age
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## The Emergence of Video Games in America
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Michael Z. Newman
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The MIT Press
  
  
  Cambridge, Massachusetts
  
  
  London, England
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  (C) 2017 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any
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  publisher.
  
  
  This book was set in Stone Sans and Stone Serif by Toppan Best-set Premedia
  Limited. Printed and bound in the United States of America.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Names: Newman, Michael Z., author.
  
  
  Title: Atari age : the emergence of video games in America / Michael Z.
  
  
  Newman.
  
  
  Description: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical
  
  
  references and index.
  
  
  Identifiers: LCCN 2016028476 | ISBN 9780262035712 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  
  
  eISBN 9780262338172
  
  
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