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About this Artwork:

This artwork celebrates the Atari 2600 and the Space War game. At the top-right front of the artwork is a complete Space War game cartridge. Below it is a New Old Stock (NOS) Space War Read Only Memory (ROM) chip. This chip is a custom Signetics 2KB ROM; it was made in the 29th week of 1978. Most game chips simply have a stock number on them. This ROM chip is extremely unusual in that it has the game name on the chip. The picture to the right is the electronic circuit board found inside the Space War game cartridge. Attached to the board is the gray Signetics 2KB ROM used to store Space War. These chips had to be extra rugged because of the mechanical and electrical stress of being inserted and removed from the game console, even with the power still on.
While Space War was heir to the Spacewars! legacy, it was not one of the best Atari games. The gameplay did not evolve with the technology available with the Atari 2600. Space War did not do much more than Spacewars!, which was written for technology that was then 15 years old. Other than the game cartridge artwork, which borrowed heavily from the recently released Star Wars movie (1977), the game did not feel much like the future.

Framing:

The artwork is framed in an 11"x14" black shadow box frame, with glass. All framing materials are acid free. A narrative about the artwork that includes the artist’s signature is placed on the back of the artwork.

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General Information:

These artworks are the creation of ChipScapes_TM artist Steve Emery. ChipScapes_TM are photographs taken of computer chips, boards, and other computer artifacts. They are sort of chip landscapes, or ChipScapes_TM for short. Most often a macro-lens or microscope is used with special lightning to achieve these unique artworks.
Intel, IBM, Fairchild, DEC, Signetics, Intersil, AMD, Zilog, Motorola, MOS, NEC, Texas Instruments, are some of the great chip making companies. Chips like the Intel 4004, MOS 6502, Zilog Z80, AMD 2901, IBM PowerPC and others have changed the way people work and play. ChipScapes_TM are dedicated to preserving and sharing these computing and communication technologies that changed the world. ChipScapes_TM artworks are fine collectible artworks. ChipScapes_TM come is a variety of shapes sizes and colors. Clusters of my artwork make for stunning displays! A ChipScape_TM would make a great gift for the nerd, geek, engineer, programmer, IT executive, or just that technology savvy person in your life.
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