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BrentRadio:
Arcade Fever has lots of great pics and descriptions of each of the games. It basically talks about the top 50 classic games of all time with each page dedicated to each game. Very colorful, insightful, funny and just a great book. Just buy it, you will not regret it.
Brent
Texasmame:
--- Quote from: nukedawg on July 18, 2007, 04:28:15 am ---I recently purchased a nice book on arcades and gaming called "Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, 1971-1984". http://www.supercade.com/
There are 2 versions, 1 hardcover (439pages) and the other is softcover (448pages). I grabbed the softcover one. It is in interesting mix of cool stories and great in your face graphics from some of the best known and some lesser known games. There are TONS of full color images in there! Check out the index here http://www.supercade.com/content/index.html
Hardcover
Best Price: $55.12
List Price: $55.00
http://product.half.ebay.com/Supercade_W0QQprZ1836828QQtgZinfo
Softcover
Best Price: $16.07
List Price: $32.95
http://product.half.ebay.com/Supercade_W0QQprZ5906974QQtgZinfo
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I have that one fur just that purpose. :cheers:
vidmouse:
Ended up getting Supercade and Arcade Fever.
From the looks of them, I think Arcade Fever was
what I was originally looking for, but after reading
parts of Supercade I am equally pleased w/ both,
although the typesetting/format of Supercade
could've been better (the writing makes up for it).
Awesome. Never had such an interest in Crazy
Climber before I read the description of it
in Supercade...
Q-bert (or anyone else)... does that encyclopedia have
pictures of cabs and screenshots or just cabs?
DefJam:
The encylopedia does have pictures of the cabs and screenshots. I think it leans more heavily to the cabs though. Good book.
Other books for your consideration:
There is an encyclopedia of game machines (consoles) that is really good. Amazing how many console machines are out there.
Some nice Pinball books out there.
I am 8 bit.
And finally, there was a book of poetry.... I think it was called Blue Wizard must die. That is very cool. No pics...
Smack:
I just bring my laptop in with me when I go to the crapper... ;)
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