Just as the video game console market was about to crash into the New Mexico desert in 1983, musician and sociologist David Sudnow was unearthing the secrets of "eye, mind, and the essence of video skill" through an exploration of Atari\'s Breakout, one of the earliest hits of the arcade world.
While its earliest critic.
Originally released under the title Pilgrim in the Microworld, Sudnow\'s groundbreaking longform criticism of a single game predates the rise of serious game studies by decades.
Just as the video game console market was about to crash into the New Mexico desert in 1983, musician and sociologist David Sudnow was unearthing the secrets of "eye, mind, and the essence of video skill" through an exploration of Atari\'s Breakout, one of the earliest hits of the arcade world
