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    Digital Games Cultures Week 5: PC Games and Gamers Marshall McLuhan's 1964 work is summarized, noting that games are extensions of social reactions to culture and incorporate both actions and reactions of populations in a single dynamic image. The rise of domestic computing from 1975-1980 is discussed, highlighting kits like the Altair 8800 that could be assembled at home. The eras of the IBM PC in 1981, Apple Macintosh in 1983, and Commodore 64 in 1982 established personal computing. MMOs, Steam, Peggle, and Dwarf Fortress are noted as representative games of the eras from the 2000s onwards. Klastrup's 2007 work on the importance of death

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    Digital Games Cultures Week 5: PC Games and Gamers Marshall McLuhan's 1964 work is summarized, noting that games are extensions of social reactions to culture and incorporate both actions and reactions of populations in a single dynamic image. The rise of domestic computing from 1975-1980 is discussed, highlighting kits like the Altair 8800 that could be assembled at home. The eras of the IBM PC in 1981, Apple Macintosh in 1983, and Commodore 64 in 1982 established personal computing. MMOs, Steam, Peggle, and Dwarf Fortress are noted as representative games of the eras from the 2000s onwards. Klastrup's 2007 work on the importance of death

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    DIGC201 Week 530032010

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    Digital Games Cultures Week 5: PC Games and Gamers Marshall McLuhan's 1964 work is summarized, noting that games are extensions of social reactions to culture and incorporate both actions and reactions of populations in a single dynamic image. The rise of domestic computing from 1975-1980 is discussed, highlighting kits like the Altair 8800 that could be assembled at home. The eras of the IBM PC in 1981, Apple Macintosh in 1983, and Commodore 64 in 1982 established personal computing. MMOs, Steam, Peggle, and Dwarf Fortress are noted as representative games of the eras from the 2000s onwards. Klastrup's 2007 work on the importance of death

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    Digital Games Cultures

    Week 5:
    PC Games and Gamers
    "Games are popular art, collective, social reactions to the
    main drive or action of any culture. Games, like institutions,
    are extensions of social man and the body politic, as
    technologies are extensions of the animal organism. Both
    games and technologies are counter-irritants or ways of
    adjusting to the stress of the specialised actions that occur in
    an social group. As extensions of the popular response to the
    workaday stress, games become faithful models of a culture.
    They incorporate both the action and the reaction of whole
    populations in a single dynamic image." (McLuhan 1964: 316)

    Marshall McLuhan 1964 'Games: The Extensions of Man', Understanding


    Media, 2003 edition, Ginko Press, Corte Madera.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewdill/33202327/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobb/43826727/
    Domestic computing (1975-
    1980)

    The Altair 8800 advertised in 1975 by


    Popular Electronics the kit was distributed
    via the mail for hobbyists to assemble at
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800
    home.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pc#1981.E2.80.931985:_Lisa_and_Macintosh

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC

    The IBM Personal Computer


    (1981)

    The Apple Macintosh 1983

    Commodore 64 1982
    Circuit of Capital Accumulation

    Kline, Dyer-Witherford and De Peuter (2003: p. 51)


    http://www.users.muohio.edu/wilmsce/circuit_culture.jpg
    Three Circuits of Interactivity

    (Kline, Dyer-Witherford and De Peuter (2003: p. 54)


    http://www.flickr.com/photos/juanpol/8232431/

    MMO

    Thottbot.Com Curse.Com
    Allakhazam.com WOWUI.COM
    http://wow.allakhazam.com/mediabox/dopeopleacutallyreadtheagreement.jpg
    Steam (2003)

    Steam Hardware Survey: March 2009


    Peggle (2007)
    Dwarf Fortress (2006)
    Klastrup, Lisbeth 2007, 'Why
    Death Matters: Understanding
    Gameworld Experience', Journal of
    Virtual Reality and Broadcasting,
    vol. 4, no. 3,
    by Sevensheaven.nl - illustrator

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