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best arcade coffee table book?

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DCsegaDH:

This one looks good:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4770030789/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0ZQGH4XZPKE2C8B5E87C&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

I'm more of a fan of 1990's arcade machines and candy cabinets.

wp34:


--- Quote from: Nephasth on June 21, 2011, 09:40:14 pm ---Anyone own this one?

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I own this book. I took a fresh look at it after making my earlier post. As the title says it is a history of video games and not just arcade games. The book starts off with Pong/Space War and works through early consoles up to arcade games. It is more comprehensive than I remembered.

There is a lot of good information in the book. For example there is a two-page spread on an obscure game called Warrior that I remember loving as a kid. The author gives a history of the development of the game as well as an interview with the developer Tim Skelly. He also designed Star Castle which I did not know.

Some of the pictures are a bit blurry but at over 400 pages it is worth the money. My only concern is the quality of the binding. The pages, while not quite loose, seem like they will fall out eventually.

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