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Author Topic: Supercade (a visual history of the videogame age 1971-1984)  (Read 916 times)

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Supercade (a visual history of the videogame age 1971-1984)
« on: January 08, 2005, 06:16:59 pm »
Yesterday I made the quarterly trip into Sydney. This involves going to my favourite HUGE bookstore, followed by lots of Guinness, then Yum Cha and then more Guinness.

Before the day turned blurry and before consuming too much chilli sauce, one of the purchases I made at THE bookstore was a book called Supercade (a visual history of the videogame age 1971-1984). I did some searches and couldn

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Re: Supercade (a visual history of the videogame age 1971-1984)
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2005, 07:51:56 pm »
I did a double-header review of Supercade and High Score a while back on RetroBlast if you are interested -

http://www.retroblast.com/reviews/superhighscore.html


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Re: Supercade (a visual history of the videogame age 1971-1984)
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2005, 09:45:43 pm »
it is a pretty cool book.  I've read quite a few of the books on gaming and so far my favorite is The Ultimate History of Video Games, it is pretty much all text, but the stories within are great.  It deals with everything from pinball, to arcade, to home gaming.