September 24, 2008

Coming in Early 2009: Racing the Beam

by Nick Montfort · , 5:48 pm
Coming soon from MIT Press

8 Responses to “Coming in Early 2009: Racing the Beam”


  1. J. Robinson Wheeler Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

    Excellent! I’m looking forward to this book.

    I imagine that the Apple II and Commodore 64 would make interesting platform studies as well.

  2. Nick Montfort Says:
    September 25th, 2008 at 7:42 am

    Definitely, Rob. We’re hopeful that we’ll get some proposals for books on these platforms soon. Anyone (or any group of collaborators) interested in penning a book on a particular platform for the Platform Studies series should get in touch with me and/or Ian as a first step.

  3. Jim Whitehead Says:
    September 25th, 2008 at 11:43 am

    Congratulations! You must be excited to see this project coming to completion.

    Excellent cover design, very nice.

  4. Mark Nelson Says:
    September 27th, 2008 at 1:01 am

    Excellent! I might actually pre-order a book for once. I must say that I liked the retro-geeky mock-up cover, but the real cover/title are nicely evocative too, and relevant since racing the beam is one of the most unique and pervasively-influential-in-game-programming features of the platform.

  5. Kevin Says:
    September 29th, 2008 at 8:02 am

    I like the personification of the technology in Racing the Beam. “If the VCS could speak, what would it say?”

    And, of course, you can’t go wrong with cover art that conjures Yar’s mighty Revenge!

    Congratulations!

  6. Nick Montfort Says:
    October 7th, 2008 at 12:48 pm

    The book is now listed in the online MIT Press catalog, and the listing includes some snazzy endorsements. Thanks to Alex Galloway, Matt Kirschenbaum, and Chris Crawford for those.

  7. William Patrick Wend Says:
    October 26th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    Congrats, Nick, I am looking forward to reading this! An Apple II book would be really great.

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    January 23rd, 2009 at 7:45 pm

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