Before the Crash

Contributors examine the early days of video game history before the industry crash that ended the medium's golden age.

Mark J.P. Wolf is a professor in the communication department at Concordia University Wisconsin. His books include Abstracting Reality: Art, Communication and Cognition in the Digital Age; The Medium of the Video Game; Virtual Morality: Morals, Ethics, and New Media; The Video Game Theory Reader; Myst and Riven: The World of the Dni; The Video Game Explosion: A History from PONG to Play Station and Beyond; The Video Game Theory Reader 2; and the two-volume Encyclopedia of Video Games. He is also founder of the Landmark Video Game book series and the Video Game Studies Scholarly Interest Group within the Society of Cinema and Media Studies.