# Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality

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- Authors: [Melanie Swalwell](https://www.bookquiver.com/melanie-swalwell)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6204-477-6
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2021-08-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

The overlooked history of an early appropriation of digital technology: the creation of games though coding and hardware hacking by microcomputer users. From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, low-end...