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Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master: Pong, Atari, and the Dawn of the Video Game

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The gripping origin story of Pong, Atari, and the digital icons who defined the world of video games.

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 raged 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 the first TV video-game console and ping-pong game in the 1960s, Bushnell, a self-taught whiz kid from Utah, put out Atari's pioneering table-tennis arcade game, Pong, in 1972. Thus, a prolonged battle began over who truly spearheaded the multibillion-dollar gaming industry, and around it a sweeping narrative about invention, inspiration, and the seeds of digital revolution.

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  • Title Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master: Pong, Atari, and the Dawn of the Video Game
  • Author Kushner, David
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition UsedGood
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bold Type Books
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4WILKM00NOCO
  • ISBN 9781568588766 / 1568588763
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.04 x 0.26 in (23.01 x 15.34 x 0.66 cm)
  • Category Graphic Novels
  • Library of Congress subjects Graphic novels, Atari computer
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2021951428
  • Dewey Decimal Code 338.477
  • Quantity available 1

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  • Booklist, 09/15/2022, Page 40
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/29/2022, Page 0

About the author

David Kushner is an award-winning journalist and author who has written eight books and two nonfiction graphic novels. A contributing editor for Rolling Stone and Outside, Kushner has written for publications including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, New York, and GQ. His work is featured in several "best of" anthologies. Many of his articles and books are being adapted for TV and film and he has taught as a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, and an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University.

Koren Shadmi is a Brooklyn-based illustrator and cartoonist. He studied illustration in the School of Visual Arts in NYC, where he now teaches. Koren's graphic novels have been published in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Israel, Korea, and the US.

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