1. Caetlin Benson-Allott, “VCR Autopsy,” Journal of Visual Culture 6, no. 2 (2007): 180.
2. Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost, Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009), 2. See also Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort, “Platform Studies: Frequently Questioned Answers,” Proceedings of Digital Arts and Culture 2009, University of California, Irvine.
3. MIT Press Platform Studies Series description, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/platform-studies.
4. Montfort and Bogost, Racing the Beam, 145–47.
5. Constance Penley, “Feminism, Film Theory, and the Bachelor Machines,” in The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989), 57–80.