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Join us the first Wednesday of the month at 5:00 to 7:30pm for a night of fun and games for all ages!
We will meet at the Downtown Library and the East Flagstaff Community Library on alternate months.
1) Video Games
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Video games evolved over decades from simple consoles to cutting-edge entertainment in homes and arcades. In the twenty-first century, they've also become some of the world's most popular apps. Find out more about the technological innovations, major players, and controversies that have made video-game history. And from the role of game cartridges to the power of the internet, learn how new inventions keep taking gaming to the next level.
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Learn Python with Pygame, and create a full pacman game without the headachessPython is a great programming language; however, most people spend too long trying to learn how to code and create games with Python the hard way. This book is the only one that will get you to learn Python fast without wasting so much time. This book is the second book in the series "Learn Python By Coding Games" where you will learn to code fast and be able to create your...
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Remember when video games were just used as entertainment? You would open the game and play it for hours and repeat ad nasum. Times have changed! Now almost every game and system are collectible. Buying and selling are common place. Tens of thousands of transactions are happening daily. This is even more so from the advent of third party grading and authentication. Games are even selling at large auction houses! The goal of this book is for you to...
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The phenomenal growth of gaming has inspired plenty of hand-wringing since its inception--from the press, politicians, parents, and everyone else concerned with its effect on our brains, bodies, and hearts. But what if games could be good, not only for individuals but for the world? In Power Play, Asi Burak and Laura Parker explore how video games are now pioneering innovative social change around the world.
As the former executive director and now...
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In this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part of the same fan experience. Editors Robert Alan Brookey and Thomas P. Oates trace this development back to the unexpected success of Atari's Pong in the 1970s, which provoked a flood of sport simulation games that have had an impact on every sector of the...
6) Guess About the Origin of Video Games and Their First Golden Age: 100 Questions – 3 Options – 1 Expl
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HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF VIDEO GAMES AND THEIR FIRST GOLDEN AGE? In this book you will test your knowledge about the first video games and the rise of their popularity to become a million-dollar industry while you have fun and enjoy learning about the different successful video games and consoles of the 70s and early 80s. You will find a hundred questions about the first successful arcade machines such as Pong, Space Invaders, Asteroids...
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