I Am Error
The Nintendo Family Computer / Entertainment System Platform
$70.86
- Paperback
440 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2017
Summary
The complex material histories of the Nintendo Entertainment System platform, from code to silicon, focusing on its technical constraints and its expressive affordances. In the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System videogame Zelda II- The Adventure of Link, a character famously declared- I AM ERROR. Puzzled players assumed that this cryptic mesage was a programming flaw, but it was actually a clumsy Japanese-English translation of “My Name is Error,” a benign programmer’s joke. In I AM ERROR Nat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262534543 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262534541 |
| Author: | Nathan Altice |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 440 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Platform Studies |
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About The Author
Nathan Altice
Nathan Altice received his doctorate in Media, Art, and Text from Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a writer, musician, and independent scholar who currently teaches media theory, sound, and game design.
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