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XtraSmiley:

Few pics, but Game Over is an excellent book on Nintendo history.  Also, I think it is called Phoenix the Rise and Fall of Atari is fantastic.

RayB:

Arcade Fever's a good cheap book to get just to have. It didn't say much I didn't already know, and there's an annoying amount of photos of machines that are old, dirty and damaged, but it covers all the classics and has some humorous parts as well.


Singapura:

I've got the Arcade fever book but the writing style is very annoying.

PacMon:


--- Quote from: Singapura on November 20, 2008, 12:59:13 am ---I've got the Arcade fever book but the writing style is very annoying.

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I agree.  He seems like he's trying to "be cool" for a bunch of 12 year olds.  I did enjoy the pics.  The writing, not so much.

Matthew Fisher:


--- Quote from: PacMon on November 20, 2008, 12:21:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: Singapura on November 20, 2008, 12:59:13 am ---I've got the Arcade fever book but the writing style is very annoying.

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I agree.  He seems like he's trying to "be cool" for a bunch of 12 year olds.  I did enjoy the pics.  The writing, not so much.

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There are also some factual errors.  Off the top of my head, he repeats the myth that you can hide behind the scores in the first rev of Asteroids.  As for Tempest he says that word "Tempest" spins like the old CBS logo in the attract mode (maybe he was thinking of Star Trek) and that every level is a different shape, when, in fact, the shapes repeat.  Probably more that I didn't notice.  Would it be that tough to do a little fact-checking or at least play the games in MAME or something?   

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