A Note on Translations and Pronunciation

For the sake of readability, I use English translations to refer to games, magazines, and book publications. The original Czech or Slovak titles can be found in the references and bibliography. All quotes from material are presented in my own translations from Czech or Slovak into English. Many of these quotes are taken from some of the earliest Czechoslovak writings on microcomputers and computer games, before a discourse about these topics was even established. Others feature the unwieldy jargon of Communist-era bureaucracy. If they sounded stilted in the original, I strove to preserve their stiltedness.