The Encyclopedia of Game Machines

The Encyclopedia of Game Machines

Author: Winnie Forster

Publisher: Winnie Forster Gameplan

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783000153594

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From Atari to Sega, from Apple to Nintendo DS, this full colour book takes not a regional, or European, but a global view on 33 years of onscreen fun and interaction and presents hardware from Japan, USA, UK, France, Germany and Korea, along with classic software in its authentic, pixellated glory. Including over 600 pictures, exclusively shot for Game.Machines, the book contains extensive indices, as well as 20 pages of technical data and explanations. This greatly enhanced and revised edition provides a time journey across the video game era: from the 4-bit beginnings to the broadband future. More than 400 dream machines and million sellers, bizarre slip-ups and exotic variants are profiled in full colour chapters with extensive appendixes.


The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games

Author: Bill Kurtz

Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780764319259

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Arcade video games have become one of the hottest collectibles around and this book features over 600 photos of the machines that filled arcades during the 1970s and '80s. Includes information about the manufacturers who produced these classic games, a section about video game collectibles, and information on how to start your own collection. Beginning collectors and long-time game enthusiasts alike are sure to enjoy this nostalgic and informative look at the world of arcade video games.


The Sega Mega Drive & Genesis Encyclopedia

The Sega Mega Drive & Genesis Encyclopedia

Author: Chris Scullion

Publisher: White Owl

Published: 2021-12-08

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1526746603

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“An exhaustive, tremendous look back at one of the most beloved consoles of all time . . . an absolutely barnstorming recollection of a wonderful era.” —Finger Guns The third book in Chris Scullion’s series of video game encyclopedias, The Sega Mega Drive and Genesis Encyclopedia is dedicated to Sega’s legendary 16-bit video game console. The book contains detailed information on every single game released for the Sega Mega Drive and Genesis in the west, as well as similarly thorough bonus sections covering every game released for its add-ons, the Mega CD and 32X. With nearly a thousand screenshots, generous helpings of bonus trivia and charmingly bad jokes, The Sega Mega Drive and Genesis Encyclopedia is the definitive guide to a legendary gaming system. “The Sega Mega Drive and Genesis Encyclopedia is a must-buy for fans of the console and a perfect addition to any retro game fan’s library.” —Goomba Stomp Magazine


The Game Console 2.0

The Game Console 2.0

Author: Evan Amos

Publisher: No Starch Press

Published: 2021-09-08

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1718500610

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This revised and expanded second edition of the bestselling The Game Console contains brand new content, with coverage of 50 more consoles, variants, and accessories in 50 added pages. The Game Console 2.0 is a gorgeous coffee table book for geeks and gamers that brings together highly detailed photos of more than 100 video game consoles and their electronic interiors spanning nearly five decades. Revised and updated since the first edition’s celebrated 2018 release, The Game Console 2.0 is an even bigger archival collection of vividly detailed photos of more than 100 video-game consoles. This ultimate archive of gaming history spans five decades and nine distinct generations, chronologically covering everything from market leaders to outright failures, and tracing the gaming industry’s rise, fall, and monumental resurgence. The book’s 2nd edition features more classic game consoles and computers, a section on retro gaming in the modern era, and dozens of new entries — including super-rare finds, such the Unisonic Champion 2711, and the latest ninth-generation consoles. You’ll find coverage of legendary systems like the Magnavox Odyssey, Atari 2600, NES, and the Commodore 64; systems from the ‘90s and 2000s; modern consoles like the Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5; and consoles you never knew existed. Get a unique peek at the hardware powering the world’s most iconic video-game systems with The Game Console 2.0 — the perfect gift for geeks of all stripes and every gamer’s must-have coffee-table book.


Street Fighter World Warrior Encyclopedia

Street Fighter World Warrior Encyclopedia

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Publisher: Udon Entertainment

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781926778013

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Enter the world of Street Fighter, where fighters of every size, shape, and color collide in a global battle for supremacy. Combatants fight for reasons as diverse as their nationalities, each which their own unique moves and fighting style. Now you can learn the whole story behind the world's greatest fighters in The Street Fighter World Warrior Encyclopedia! Inside you will find detailed profiles of every Street Fighter character, including their histories, strengths, allies, enemies, and more! Each profile is accompanied by pulse-pounding artwork by top UDON artists like Alvin Lee, Jo Chen, Arnold Tsang, Jeffrey Cruz, Joe Ng, and Omar Dogan.


Sega Master System Encyclopedia

Sega Master System Encyclopedia

Author: Derek Slaton

Publisher: VGA

Published: 2016-04-11

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9781945294013

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The Sega Master System Encyclopedia aims to be the definitive publication on the USA releases for the system. Over the course of 435 pages you'll find that every game has an in depth review, multiple screen shots, and cover scans. The goal with this is to make sure that the memory of the games from this era lives on for future gaming generations. Granted not all of the games within these pages deserve to be remembered fondly, but they do deserve to be remembered nonetheless. The reviews are equal parts informative and entertaining. While the purpose of encyclopedias isn't to be entertaining, the purpose of gaming is, so there was a great effort to make reading about games fun.


Arcade Fever The Fan's Guide To The Golden Age Of Video Games

Arcade Fever The Fan's Guide To The Golden Age Of Video Games

Author: John Sellers

Publisher: Running Press

Published: 2001-08-21

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780762409372

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Arcade Fever is a full-color illustrated history of video arcade games, with tributes to more than 50 classic games like Pong, Space Invaders, Pac Man, Q-Bert, Frogger, and TRON. Learn which game caused a yen shortage in Japan -- and which games inspired breakfast cereals, Saturday-morning cartoons, episodes of Seinfeld,and #1 pop-music singles. Meet the visionary musicians, writers, animators, cabinet artists, and other unsung heroes of the video game industry. The perfect gift for anyone who spent their childhood in video arcades, Arcade Fever is a pop-culture nostalgia trip you won't want to miss! John Sellers writes for Entertainment Weekly, Premiere, TV Guide, and other national magazines. He is also the author of Pop Culture Aptitude Test: Rad, 80s Version. He was the World Champion of Donkey Kong in 1983 and appeared on the television show "That's Incredible!"


The Age of Spiritual Machines

The Age of Spiritual Machines

Author: Ray Kurzweil

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1101077883

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Bold futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity Is Near, offers a framework for envisioning the future of machine intelligence—“a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next” (The New York Times Book Review). “Kurzweil offers a thought-provoking analysis of human and artificial intelligence and a unique look at a future in which the capabilities of the computer and the species that invented it grow ever closer.”—BILL GATES Imagine a world where the difference between man and machine blurs, where the line between humanity and technology fades, and where the soul and the silicon chip unite. This is not science fiction. This is the twenty-first century according to Ray Kurzweil, the “restless genius” (The Wall Street Journal), “ultimate thinking machine” (Forbes), and inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era. In his inspired hands, life in the new millennium no longer seems daunting. Instead, it promises to be an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. More than just a list of predictions, Kurzweil’s prophetic blueprint for the future guides us through the inexorable advances that will result in: • Computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain (with human-level capabilities not far behind) • Relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers • Information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways Eventually, the distinction between humans and computers will have become sufficiently blurred that when the machines claim to be conscious, we will believe them.


The NES Encyclopedia

The NES Encyclopedia

Author: Chris Scullion

Publisher: Casemate Publishers

Published: 2019-03-30

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1526737825

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A comprehensive, colorful guide to every game ever released on the classic Nintendo Entertainment System. One of the most iconic video game systems, the NES is credited with saving the American video games industry in the early 1980s. The NES Encyclopedia is the first ever complete reference guide to every game released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo’s first industry-defining video game system. As well as covering all 714 officially licensed NES games, the book also includes more than 160 unlicensed games released during its lifespan, giving for the first time a definitive history of this important console's full library. Written by a retro gaming expert with 30 years of gaming experience and a penchant for bad jokes, TheNES Encyclopedia promises to be both informative and entertaining. The NES continues to enjoy a strong cult following among Nintendo fans and gamers in general with wide varieties of officially licensed merchandise proving ever popular. Nintendo’s most recent console, the Switch, is the fastest selling video game console of all time in the United States and Japan. Nintendo launched a variety of classic NES games for download on the system, meaning a new audience of gamers is due to discover the NES for the first time if they have not already. Praise for The NES Encyclopedia “As a catalog of all 876 NES games, this work is unique in its breadth of coverage and will be of great interest to old-school video gamers and collectors.” —Booklist “A definitive resource that is more than worthy of the title ‘Encyclopedia.’ ” —Nintendo World Report