Diver Mike
Diver Mike - The Console 50 Years Of Home Video Gaming - Hardcover
Diver Mike - The Console 50 Years Of Home Video Gaming - Hardcover
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Description: THE CON 50 LE is a comprehensive yet conversational account of 50 years of home video gaming history leaving no rarely sighted system unturned and providing a chronological account of the evolution of the biggest entertainment medium in the world. From the earliest consoles of the 1970s to the cutting - edge machines of the here and now a line is drawn from one man's eureka moment to the multi - billion - dollar global industry of today. All the well - known names and massive - selling consoles are here: the Nintendo Entertainment System the SEG a Mega Drive the Atari 2600, the Xbox 360, the Play Station 2. But there's plenty of room for hardware that many a gamer won t have heard of before from Japan - only releases and home computer conversions to ill - advised experiments with VHS and all manner of micro - console magic. Learn about the creators and their inspirations the games that made the biggest consoles eternal reputations and the failures and flops along the way. Even the consoles that came and went without notable commercial success left a mark an imprint on this compelling history and THE CON 50 LE unravels it explains it one fascinating machine at a time.
Title: The Console 50 Years Of Home Video Gaming
Author(s): Diver Mike
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781399040464
Pages: 192 Pages, 150 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 4/18/2024
Category: Digital Video: Consumer/User Guides
Description: THE CON 50 LE is a comprehensive yet conversational account of 50 years of home video gaming history leaving no rarely sighted system unturned and providing a chronological account of the evolution of the biggest entertainment medium in the world. From the earliest consoles of the 1970s to the cutting - edge machines of the here and now a line is drawn from one man's eureka moment to the multi - billion - dollar global industry of today. All the well - known names and massive - selling consoles are here: the Nintendo Entertainment System the SEG a Mega Drive the Atari 2600, the Xbox 360, the Play Station 2. But there's plenty of room for hardware that many a gamer won t have heard of before from Japan - only releases and home computer conversions to ill - advised experiments with VHS and all manner of micro - console magic. Learn about the creators and their inspirations the games that made the biggest consoles eternal reputations and the failures and flops along the way. Even the consoles that came and went without notable commercial success left a mark an imprint on this compelling history and THE CON 50 LE unravels it explains it one fascinating machine at a time.
Title: The Console 50 Years Of Home Video Gaming
Author(s): Diver Mike
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781399040464
Pages: 192 Pages, 150 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 4/18/2024
Category: Digital Video: Consumer/User Guides
