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From Pong to Pac-Man, Asteroids to Zaxxon, more than 50 million people around the world have come of age within the electronic flux of video games, their subconscious forever etched with images projected from arcade and home video game systems.
Exuberantly written and illustrated in full colour, Supercade pays tribute to the technology, games and visionaries of one of the most influential periods in the history of computer science--one that profoundly shaped the modern technological landscape and helped change the way people view entertainment.
The book includes contributions from such commentators and participants as Ralph Baer, Julian Dibbell, Keith Feinstein, Joe Fielder, Lauren Fielder, Justin Hall, Leonard Herman, Steven Johnson, Steven Kent, Nick Montfort, Bob Parks, Carl Steadman and Tom Vanderbilt. --Miles Taylor --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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However, disapointment set in when I realised it was written from an american perspective. Supercade is still a great book for the hardcore computer fan, just too many items I didn't recognise to keep me interested.
The book is a good 50/50, perhaps 60/40 split between home consoles and arcade games from the periods in 1971-84. Each game from the era is given over to a 1 or 2 pages, in full colour, on average perhaps 500 words per game (some games only have a caption box) and a plethora of screenshots, and some nice pastiches of flyers, caboinet and packaging pictures, along with culture symbols and scenes from movies, adverts (heh, even the 1984 Apple ad gets in there plus the ubiquitous Flynn's from Tron!).
The book reaches its "alcoholic coffees and mints," with some very nice articles on current exhibitions, such as Videotopia, California Extreme plus a few more I'd never heard of, and hell, there's even a few pages put over to the collectors - yippee!! We're famous :P
This washes down what basically is a damned-fine, 400-course meal of arcade and console snippets - a veritable gourmet spread. There's nothing here you're not going to find on the net, nor indeed experience with emulators, but full marks for the effort and indeed the conceptual layout is splendid - somehow a thoroughly 2000's presentation of 1980's retro scene works to perfection somehow. This book is a graphical trip down video games - which is excellent seeing video games are a visual eye-candy - a fault I think other books fall into!
There must be 400 odd pages here so whilst the cover price is expensive, it really is a fantastic blast down memories past and I'd say its worth the money, especially as the whole book doesn't have a single black and white page (oh, I lie, the Apple Mac page is set out like a desktop :p).
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Perhaps some of the pages with caption boxes (Major Havoc, Qix) could of had more text. I think it a travesty that Space Invaders got lumped in this category with only a screenshot and caption - although, heh, it does get to appear twice as they repeat this for Part 2/Dexlue! I've never been one for home consoles either, but I have to say its interesting to see them integrated into a chronological order.
Domonic 'Rav' Escott,... (U.K. Video Arcade Collectors Club)
A tad expensive you may think ? It is worth it.
The only downer in my view is that it lends a bit too much ink to covering home consoles when to me they were much of a muchness, always woefully inferior to the arcade originals.
The book itself it HUGE and contains... Read more
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