The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokémon and Beyond—The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World (94 page)
Authors: Steven Kent
19.
Ibid., p. 115.
20.
Ibid., pp. 115–116.
21.
Ibid., pp. 116–117.
22.
Ibid., p. 120.
23.
Ibid., pp. 121–122.
24.
Ibid., p. 122.
25.
Ibid., p. 126.
26.
Ibid., p. 136.
27.
Ibid., pp. 140–144.
Chapter 30: Three Horses and a Pony28.
Ibid., p. 143.
1.
Taken from Game Developers Conference keynote address, delivered March 10, 2000.
2.
Takahashi, Dean, “How Four Renegades Persuaded Microsoft to Make a Game Machine,”
Wall Street Journal
(March 10, 2000).
3.
Shroddy, Eric, Larry Muggerud, and Lou Donaldson,
Jump Around
(Tommy Boy Records, 1992).
4.
2000 Games White Paper
, Computer Entertainment Software Association, July 2000.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kent, Steven L.
The ultimate history of video games : from Pong to Pokemon—the story behind the craze that touched our lives and changed the world / Steven L. Kent.
1. Video games—History. I. Title.
GV1469.3 .K45 2001
794.8′09—dc21 2001036497
eISBN: 978-0-307-56087-2
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