"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!""
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John Sellers writes for Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, Details, Spin, GQ and other national magazines. His most recent full-time job was a staff writer for Who Wants to be a Millionaire? He is the author of one book (The Pop Culture Aptitude Test from Little Brown). In 1983, he was the World Champion of Donkey Kong and appeared on the television show That's Incredible!
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Parts is parts: Games came with their own circuitry and controls, and in all shapes and the arcade an anthropological funhouse. Read the first page
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
Although "Arcade Nation"'s text is scant and cheesy,what makes this book is the pornographic array of screen and cabinet shots-reducing the reader to the vegetative,slack-jawed state you experienced when watching an older kid clean up on "Gorf".If you want a book to "read"-get "Joystick Nation"-but if you just want to gaze at ace glossy colour pics then get this-not as exhaustive or expertly designed as "Electronic Plastic",but great all the same.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
well I thought this book was going to be great... the pics are great, but the text is quite painfull to read, the book is presnted like a kids video game magazine more than a quality book, e.g. there is an interview with nolan bushnall where he gets asked such insitefull questions as "did you have trouble saying "nutting associates" with a straigh face" yes hahaha...... another section that made me wince was "celluloid nightmares" - "a disturbing trend in the 1990's saw popular video games made in to awful movies, thankfully the following travesties never made it to the silver screen" then we get a list of imaginary films based on ms. pacman and others with cast lists....well I think you get the idea great pictures, and thats it a shorter more serious description might have been a better read...The book I would love to see, would consist of pictures of a machine from all angles, then an article about the game written by the programmer or someone who was closely involved in the project...this is a poor book on an underpopulated subject, so I would still say if you love retro games memorabilia that you should probably buy it!
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By R. Hazelby
Format:Hardcover
I've had this book on pre-order since April, so when it finally arrived I ripped the parcel open, and can thankfully say that I was not disappointed.
If you have other arcade related books in your collection already and are wondering why you should shell out on another, I'll explain.
Basically, this book is different to any of the others I have seen. The author, John Sellers doesn't try to provide the reader with an in-depth history of videogames, but instead devotes a page or two to each classic title.
Then there's the pictures. There are loads of them! Each page is a rainbow of colour featuring shots of the arcade machine in question along with game screens and more.
If you're over the age of 20 and names such as `Pacman`, `Donkey Kong` and `Dig Dug` send a shiver down your spine, you could do a lot worse than add this to your collection.
Top stuff indeed!
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