Appendix A

Profiles of Historical Video Games

This appendix profiles many of the commercial and non-profit games available for PCs running Windows XP, Vista, and 7—and Macintoshes (though far fewer are available for Macs). The profiles are current as of November 2010; all commercial games listed are currently available through online vendors and many through retail stores. Likewise, the URLs for web-based games are accurate at the time of publication, but if a link no longer works, try finding the game using a search engine. Fortunately, the rise of online digital distribution of software has made it increasingly likely that most, if not all, of the commercial games listed below will continue to be made available for the foreseeable future. As ...

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