The original edition became available as a free download from a site maintained by Washington State University, Pullman in 1997.

In 2011 the free download was removed and the text is currently available as a Kindle e-book.

Crawford in 1981 and 1982 coauthored a series of technical articles in BYTE on developing games for the Atari 8-bit computers.

[2] In December 1982 he published an article in BYTE on abstract aspects of game design, using Legionnaire as example.

[4] Orson Scott Card was less favorable, writing in Ahoy!