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Casual Game Design
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Casual Game Design

by Gregory Trefry
January 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
400 pages
9h 6m
English
CRC Press
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Whac-A-Mole : 30 Seconds of Primal Pleasure
Hitting as a mechanic finds an almost primal expression in the family arcade game
Whac-A-Mole ( Figure 8.2 ).
Aaron Fletcher created Whac-A-Mole back in the early ’70s. Fletcher sold the
game to a carnival operator who later sold the game to Bob’s Space Racers who
continue to manufacture the game and other similar arcade machines to this day.
In 1980, Fletcher helped co-found Showbiz Pizza Place, which became one of the
main buyers of his old game Whac-A-Mole . Showbiz eventually merged with Nolan
Bushnell’s Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theatre (he of Pong and Atari fame).
Whac
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ISBN: 9780123749536