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Vintage Game Consoles tells the story of the most influential video game platforms of all time, including the Apple II, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, Sony PlayStation, and many more. Discover the details behind the consoles, computers, handheld devices and arcade machines that made video games possible. Drawing on extensive research and the authors' lifelong experience with video games, Vintage Game Consoles explores each system's development, history, fan community, major games, and information for collectors and game enthusiasts. emulation. It also includes hundreds of exclusive full-color screenshots and images that help bring each system's unique story to life. Vintage Game Consoles is the ideal book for gamers, students, and professionals who want to know the history behind their favorite computers, handheld devices, and consoles, without forgetting why they play in the first place: fun!
There are 400 captioned images and 348 total pages packed with content. The main platforms covered are: arcade, Apple II, Atari 2600 VCS, Atari 8-bit, Mattel Intellivision, DOS PC computers, Commodore 64, ColecoVision, NES, Commodore Amiga, Sega Genesis, GameBoy, Super NES, Windows PC computers, PlayStation . , Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube. Of course, many other platforms (and games) are also discussed along the way, as well as some of the variations from other regions outside of the book's North American focus. The cover is by home artist Nathan Strum and is inspired by the classic video game magazine Electronic Games.
About the authors:
Bill Loguidice is a critically acclaimed technology author who has worked on more than a dozen books, including CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer, written with Boisy G. Pitre. He is also the co-founder and CEO of the popular website Armchair Arcade. A noted video game and computer historian and subject matter expert, Bill personally owns and maintains over 400 different systems from the 1970s to the present, including a large volume of associated materials.
Matt Barton is a professor of English at Saint Cloud State University in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where he lives with his wife Elizabeth. He is the producer of “Matt Chat,” a weekly YouTube series featuring in-depth interviews with prominent game developers. In addition to the original Vintage Games, which he co-authored with Bill, he is the author of Dungeons & Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games and Honoring the Code: Conversations with Great Game Designers.
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