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Arcade Fever: The Fan's Guide to the Golden Age of Video Games [Paperback]

John Sellers (Author)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Running Press,U.S.; illustrated edition edition (1 Aug 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0762409371
  • ISBN-13: 978-0762409372
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 20.2 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 529,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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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4.0 out of 5 stars Pixel Porn, 31 Dec 2001
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This review is from: Arcade Fever: The Fan's Guide to the Golden Age of Video Games (Paperback)
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.
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3.0 out of 5 stars book for kids!!!, 2 Oct 2001
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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!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Retro Fantastic, 11 May 2007
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Ahhhh those where the days.

While not a nobel prize winner (which is not a bad thing in my book) this book is done in the perfect style for all of us who hung around the arcades in the 1980's (or even earlier). Makes me want to get an original Gauntlet console.
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4.0 out of 5 stars An good book for retro game geeks.
This book is a must for anyone who is interested in retro gaming. It contains lots of colorful pictures of game cabinets and game screenshots. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A light-hearted romp through the classics of yesteryear
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. Read more
Published on 22 Aug 2001 by R. Hazelby

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