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Anne Ladyem McDivitt has succeeded in writing an exceptionally thoroughly researched and extremely readable book that will be an important foundation for the field of the history of digital games, for it deconstructs the founding myths of the US games industry around Nolan Bushnell and Atari. McDivitt has found and thoroughly prepared exciting new sources for her readers. It can be assumed that many subsequent researchers will gratefully draw on these research results. (translated from German) Eugen Pfister: Rezension zu: McDivitt, Anne Ladyem: Hot Tubs and Pac-Man. Gender and the Early Video Game Industry in the United States (1950s-1980s). Berlin 2021. ISBN 978-3-11-066446-1, In: H-Soz-Kult, 26.04.2021, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-95835>.

Anne Ladyem McDivitt has succeeded in writing an exceptionally thoroughly researched and extremely readable book that will be an important foundation for the field of the history of digital games, for it deconstructs the founding myths of the US games industry around Nolan Bushnell and Atari. McDivitt has found and thoroughly prepared exciting new sources for her readers. It can be assumed that many subsequent researchers will gratefully draw on these research results. (translated from German) Eugen Pfister: Rezension zu: McDivitt, Anne Ladyem: Hot Tubs and Pac-Man. Gender and the Early Video Game Industry in the United States (1950s-1980s). Berlin 2021. ISBN 978-3-11-066446-1, In: H-Soz-Kult, 26.04.2021, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-95835>.

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Anne Ladyem McDivitt, University of Alabama, USA.

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