

Coin-operated machines-United States-History. Video games-Social aspects-United States. Includes bibliographical references and index. Coin-operated Americans : rebooting boyhood at the video game arcade / Carly A. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 1 (September 2012).Ĭopyright 2015 by the Regents of the University of MinnesotaĪll rights reserved. An earlier version of chapter 3 was published as “The Agony and the Exidy: A History of Video Game Violence and the Legacy of Death Race,” Game Studies 12, no.

London An earlier version of chapter 1 was published as “Coin-Drop Capitalism: Economic Lessons from the Video Game Arcade,” in Before the Crash: Early Video Game History (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012).University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis Coin-Operated Americans Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade Carly A.
