I Am Error by Nathan Altice - ISBN: 9780262534543
Paperback
The complex material histories of the Nintendo Entertainment System platform, from code to silicon, focusing on its technical constraints and its expressive affordances.

I Am Error

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    440 pages

  • Release Date

    8 September 2017

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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
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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