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Atari Design
Impressions on Coin-Operated Video Game Machines
Taschenbuch von Raiford Guins
Sprache: Englisch

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Drawing from deep archival research and extensive interviews, Atari Design is a rich, historical study of how Atari's industrial and graphic designers contributed to the development of the video game machine.

Innovative game design played a key role in the growth of Atari - from Pong to Asteroids and beyond - but fun, challenging and exciting game play was not unique to the famous Silicon Valley company. What set it apart from its competitors was innovation in the coin-op machine's cabinet. Atari did not just make games, it designed products for environments.

With "tasteful packaging", Atari exceeded traditional locations like bars, amusement parks and arcades, developing the look and feel of their game cabinets for new locations such as fast food restaurants, department stores, country clubs, university unions, and airports, making game-play a ubiquitous social and cultural experience. By actively shaping the interaction between user and machine, overcoming styling limitations and generating a distinct corporate identity, Atari designed products that impacted the everyday visual and material culture of the late 20th century.

Design was never an afterthought at Atari.
Drawing from deep archival research and extensive interviews, Atari Design is a rich, historical study of how Atari's industrial and graphic designers contributed to the development of the video game machine.

Innovative game design played a key role in the growth of Atari - from Pong to Asteroids and beyond - but fun, challenging and exciting game play was not unique to the famous Silicon Valley company. What set it apart from its competitors was innovation in the coin-op machine's cabinet. Atari did not just make games, it designed products for environments.

With "tasteful packaging", Atari exceeded traditional locations like bars, amusement parks and arcades, developing the look and feel of their game cabinets for new locations such as fast food restaurants, department stores, country clubs, university unions, and airports, making game-play a ubiquitous social and cultural experience. By actively shaping the interaction between user and machine, overcoming styling limitations and generating a distinct corporate identity, Atari designed products that impacted the everyday visual and material culture of the late 20th century.

Design was never an afterthought at Atari.
Über den Autor
Raiford Guins
Zusammenfassung
Includes over 120 original images from the archives of Stanford University and the Strong National Museum of Play
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Images
List of Plates
Prologue: Not on Display
Acknowledgements

Ignition: Advanced Electronics and Styling
Zero to 60 in 25¢
Design History of Video Games
1. Game Design is Inadequate
2. Platform Studies Doesn't Scratch These Surfaces
3. Coin-op Video Games Machines are Complex Artifacts
4. Cabinet Design is Design
Taking Anonymous History for a Spin

Chapter I: Start With a Clean Piece of Paper
Man, that thing needs some help
BEAUTIFUL SPACE-AGE CABINET: A Plasticine Moment
Low Key Cabinet, Suitable for Sophisticated Locations: The Veneer of Game History
Never Leave Well Enough Alone.

Chapter II: Come and Play Me
Far Out
More Than a Box
Independent Functionality, or Designing "Atari Style"
2 Game Module, or On the Importance of Not Shitting in the Punchbowl
Project Development, or Everything You Wanted to Know About Video Pinball (But Never Thought to Ask an Industrial Designer)

Chapter III: Happy Stuff
Uncabinet
Good Design is Good for (the Coin-Op) Business
Cabinets as Graphically Design Products

Chapter IV: A Kinesthetic World of Shapes and Color
Bold Impact
As you get Excited you Start to Hug the Game
Environmental Communication
Communicative Environments

Chapter V: Shifting Gears

Parking Brake: Look Beyond Finished Form
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Innenarchitektur & Design
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781474284554
ISBN-10: 1474284558
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Guins, Raiford
Redaktion: Lees-Maffei, Grace
Fallan, Kjetil
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Maße: 247 x 192 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Raiford Guins
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.12.2020
Gewicht: 0,635 kg
Artikel-ID: 117502965
Über den Autor
Raiford Guins
Zusammenfassung
Includes over 120 original images from the archives of Stanford University and the Strong National Museum of Play
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Images
List of Plates
Prologue: Not on Display
Acknowledgements

Ignition: Advanced Electronics and Styling
Zero to 60 in 25¢
Design History of Video Games
1. Game Design is Inadequate
2. Platform Studies Doesn't Scratch These Surfaces
3. Coin-op Video Games Machines are Complex Artifacts
4. Cabinet Design is Design
Taking Anonymous History for a Spin

Chapter I: Start With a Clean Piece of Paper
Man, that thing needs some help
BEAUTIFUL SPACE-AGE CABINET: A Plasticine Moment
Low Key Cabinet, Suitable for Sophisticated Locations: The Veneer of Game History
Never Leave Well Enough Alone.

Chapter II: Come and Play Me
Far Out
More Than a Box
Independent Functionality, or Designing "Atari Style"
2 Game Module, or On the Importance of Not Shitting in the Punchbowl
Project Development, or Everything You Wanted to Know About Video Pinball (But Never Thought to Ask an Industrial Designer)

Chapter III: Happy Stuff
Uncabinet
Good Design is Good for (the Coin-Op) Business
Cabinets as Graphically Design Products

Chapter IV: A Kinesthetic World of Shapes and Color
Bold Impact
As you get Excited you Start to Hug the Game
Environmental Communication
Communicative Environments

Chapter V: Shifting Gears

Parking Brake: Look Beyond Finished Form
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Innenarchitektur & Design
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781474284554
ISBN-10: 1474284558
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Guins, Raiford
Redaktion: Lees-Maffei, Grace
Fallan, Kjetil
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Maße: 247 x 192 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Raiford Guins
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.12.2020
Gewicht: 0,635 kg
Artikel-ID: 117502965
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