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portada Shareware Heroes: The Renegades Who Redefined Gaming at the Dawn of the Internet
Type
Physical Book
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Publisher
Year
2022
Language
English
Pages
352
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.6 x 12.7 x 3.0 cm
Weight
0.34 kg.
ISBN13
9781800181748
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Shareware Heroes: The Renegades Who Redefined Gaming at the Dawn of the Internet

Richard Moss (Author) · Unbound · Paperback

Shareware Heroes: The Renegades Who Redefined Gaming at the Dawn of the Internet - Moss, Richard

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Synopsis "Shareware Heroes: The Renegades Who Redefined Gaming at the Dawn of the Internet"

Shareware Heroes is a comprehensive, meticulously researched exploration of an important and too-long overlooked chapter in video game historyShareware Heroes: Independent Games at the Dawn of the Internet takes readers on a journey, from the beginnings of the shareware model in the early 1980s, the origins of the concept, even the name itself, and the rise of shareware's major players - the likes of id Software, Apogee, and Epic MegaGames - through to the significance of shareware for the 'forgotten' systems - the Mac, Atari ST, Amiga - when commercial game publishers turned away from them.This book also charts the emergence of commercial shareware distributors like Educorp and the BBS/newsgroup sharing culture. And it explores how shareware developers plugged gaps in the video gaming market by creating games in niche and neglected genres like vertically-scrolling shoot-'em-ups (e.g. Raptor and Tyrian) or racing games (e.g. Wacky Wheels and Skunny Kart) or RPGs (God of Thunder and Realmz), until finally, as the video game market again grew and shifted, and major publishers took control, how the shareware system faded into the background and fell from memory.

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