The Spectrum of Adventure: A Brief History of Interactive Fiction on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Softcover

Christie, Thomas A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0993493211 ISBN 13: 9780993493218

Verlag: Extremis Publishing Ltd., 2016

Inhaltsangabe

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was one of the most popular home computers in British history, selling over five million units in its 1980s heyday. Amongst the thousands of games released for the Spectrum during its lifetime, the text adventure game was to emerge as one of the most significant genres on the system. The Spectrum of Adventure chronicles the evolution of the text adventure on the ZX Spectrum, exploring the work of landmark software houses such as Melbourne House Software, Level 9 Computing, Delta 4 Software, the CRL Group, Magnetic Scrolls, and many others besides. Covering one hundred individual games in all, this book celebrates the Spectrum’s thriving interactive fiction scene of the eighties, chronicling the achievements of major publishers as well as independent developers from the machine’s launch in 1982 until the end of the decade in 1989.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Thomas A. Christie has a life-long fascination with films and the people who make them. A member of the Royal Society of Literature and the Society of Authors, he holds an M.A. in Humanities with British Cinema History from the Open University of Milton Keynes, and a Ph.D. in Scottish Literature awarded by the University of Stirling. Thomas Christie is the author of Liv Tyler, Star in Ascendance: Her First Decade in Film (2007), The Cinema of Richard Linklater (2008), John Hughes and Eighties Cinema (2009), Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Pocket Movie Guide (2010) and The Christmas Movie Book (2011), all of which are published by Crescent Moon Publishing. For more information about Tom and his books, visit his website at www.tomchristiebooks.co.uk.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Extremis Publishing Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0993493211
• ISBN 13: 9780993493218
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 674
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland