# Gaming the Iron Curtain

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- Book: [Gaming the Iron Curtain](https://www.bookquiver.com/jaroslav-svelch/gaming-the-iron-curtain) ([Gaming the Iron Curtain.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jaroslav-svelch/gaming-the-iron-curtain.md))
- Authors: [Jaroslav Svelch](https://www.bookquiver.com/jaroslav-svelch)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6254-928-8
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2023-09-19
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

How amateur programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia discovered games as a medium, using them not only for entertainment but also as a means of self-expression. Aside from the exceptional history of Tetris,...