From Pong to Pac-Man, Asteroids to Zaxxon, over fifty million individuals have come of age within the electronic flux of the videogame evolution -- their subconscious forever etched with images projected from arcade and home videogame systems around the world.
Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984 by Van Burnham
Project Arcade: Build Your Own Arcade Machine by John St. Clair
build your very own arcade game. Construct joysticks, buttons, and trackballs; build the console and cabinet; install and configure the software; crank up the speakers; and wham! Step across the time-space continuum and enjoy all those classic games, plus dozens of new ones, whenever you like.Start HereIncludes diagrams, detailed instructions, essential software, and more 1. Plan for your space and budget
ARCADE FEVER The Fan's Guide to The Golden Age of Video Games by John Sellers
Interviews with programmers, musicians, animators, and other legends from the golden age of video games
A chronological history of video arcades—from the first coin-operated arcade game (no, it wasn't Pong) to obscure classics like Elevator Action, Crazy Climber, and Food Fight
o Tons of rad '80s spin-off products, including home systems, pajamas, alarm clocks, Saturday morning cartoons, sugar-coated breakfast cereals, and a really bad movie starring Jeff Bridges as a programmer who gets sucked into a computer
The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon--The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World by Steven L. Kent
Arcade Treasures With Price Guide: With Price Guide (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Today, a sense of nostalgia and the irresistible urge to play have combined to make arcade memorabilia and antique arcade games one of the hottest collectible fields of our time. This book is filled with 447 color photos of the greatest games ever to hit the arcade scene-the earliest arcades' strength testers and fortune tellers, perennial favorites like baseball games and SKEE-BALL, wild pinball games from the middle of the century, and modern electronic video game like PAC MAN and Q*BERT.
ARCADE BOOKS
