David Kushner
Author
Language
English
Description
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in history- Doom and Quake- until the games they made...
3) Levittown: two families, one tycoon, and the fight for civil rights in America's legendary suburb
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 237 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
99 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A deep, nostalgic dive into the advent of gaming, Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master returns us to the emerging culture of Silicon Valley. At the center of this graphic history, dynamically drawn in colors inspired by old computer screens, is the epic feud that rages between Atari founder Nolan Bushnell and inventor Ralph Baer for the title of "father of the video game." While Baer, a Jewish immigrant whose family fled Germany for America, developed...
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
118 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A for Anonymous shows how a leaderless band of volunteers successfully used hacktivism to fight for the underdog, embarrass their rich and powerful targets--from Sony and Paypal to the Church of Scientology and Ferguson Police Department--all in the name of freedom of speech and information. Their exploits blurred the distinction between "online" and "reality," and help shape our contemporary world" --
6) Silk road
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ross Ulbricht launches the website Silk Road, a completely anonymous drug market, catching the focus of disgraced DEA agent Rick Bowden. As their private lives erode, they are trapped in an elaborate game of cat-and-mouse.
