Vintage Game Consoles: An Inside Look at Apple, Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, and the Greatest Gaming Platforms of All Time

ISBN-13: 9781138428386 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Bill Loguidice

Opis

Vintage Game Consoles is an exploration and celebration of the fascinating and diverse history of videogame platforms; the consoles, computers, handhelds, and arcade machines that have powered the industry.

Spis treści

1. Generation One?(1971 – 1984)











1. Arcade (1971)











2. Apple II (1977)











3. Atari 2600 VCS (1977)











4. Atari 8-bit (1979)











5. Mattel Intellivision (1979)











6. PC DOS Computers (1981)











7. Commodore 64 (1982)











8. Coleco ColecoVision (1982)












2. Generation Two?(1985 – 1994)














1. Nintendo Entertainment System (1985)











2. Commodore Amiga (1985)











3. Sega Genesis (1989)











4. Nintendo GameBoy (1989)











5. Nintendo Super NES (1991)












3. Generation Three?(1995 – 2001)














1. PC Windows Computers (1995)











2. Sony PlayStation (1995)











3. Nintendo 64 (1996)











4. Sega Dreamcast (1999)











5. Sony PlayStation 2 (2000)











6. Microsoft Xbox (2001)











7. Nintendo GameCube (2001)

O autorze

Bill Loguidice is a critically acclaimed technology author who has worked on over a dozen books, including CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy’s Underdog Computer, written with Boisy G. Pitre. He’s also the co-founder and Managing Director for the popular Website, Armchair Arcade. A noted videogame and computer historian and subject matter expert, Bill personally owns and maintains well over 400 different systems from the 1970s to the present day, including a large volume of associated materials. Matt Barton is an associate professor of English at Saint Cloud State University in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where he lives with his wife Elizabeth. He’s the producer of the Matt Chat, a weekly YouTube series featuring in-depth interviews with notable game developers. In addition to the original Vintage Games, which he co-authored with Bill, he’s author of Dungeons & Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games and Honoring the Code: Conversations with Great Game Designers.