Category: Books
UPDATE: April 9th – The price is now £1, which is still a good price for what it is. Just received my TPUG newsletter and was glad to see another great news. After the “The story of Commodore 64 in Pixels” giveaway we posted last month, Fusion Retro Books is back, now selling for £1 (USD 1.30) the Amiga counterpart:…
Author of the well-received The Secret History of Mac Gaming, Richard Moss is now working on a new book called Shareware Heroes: Independent Games at the Dawn of the Internet (working title) where he is writing about shareware games released from the late-1980s through the 90s. To fund the production costs, the author is running a crowdfunding campaign at https://unbound.com/books/shareware-heroes/. Looks to me an…
Martin Gamero Prieto’s new book charts the rise and fall of the once-dominant 3D graphics firm
Retrogamers looking to immerse themselves in the history of Atari video games should be interested to know that a new book dedicated to the subject has been announced. The Unofficial Atari Visual History is a new work from Darren “Greyfox” Doyle, also known for the ‘Atari Gamer‘ range of magazines. Available in hardback and paperback editions, the new book aims to cover a significant…
As promised, here is the official announcement of the new book by Brian Matherne covering 34 of the best homebrew games available for the Atari 2600. The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion: Volume 1 is now available on Amazon in paperback format for US$ 12.99. Here is the book’s description from Amazon’s page: The Atari 2600 is alive and well, with new…
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/commodore-the-final-years-book Brian Bagnall recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to secure funding for his new book, Commodore: The Final Years. This will be the third and final book in Bagnall’s Commodore trilogy (previous titles include Commodore: A Company on the Edge and Commodore: The Amiga Years), charting the computer giant’s golden years from 1987, starting with the launch of the Amiga…
Jamie Lendino, author of Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, has published an article at Extremetech.com telling how he found out his book was pirated and put for sale at Amazon, just next to his own. It seems an author named Steve S. Thomas has taken Jamie’s “Breakout” book and copied it word by word and made it available…
The campaign for Games for Atari: 1977 to 1995 is in its final days and might need more people in order to reach its goal. The project objective is to publish a book (or an Encyclopedia if you will) containing all games for all Atari consoles and 8-bit computers from 1977 to 1995. The project looks gorgeous and it is…
The Kickstarter for a new book called “Classic Game Covers, Confessions of An Art Junkie” has been 100% funded! With still 7 days to go there is still time to push it to the max to reach the stretch goals too. So head over to the project page to secure your copy now! https://ksr-video.imgix.net/assets/015/896/987/82ad0f2b0d6bf45cdc9b0c2147178a43_h264_high.mp4 Website: kickstarter.com
It’s Christmas 1982. You just got your very first home video game system and the most powerful one on the market, the ColecoVision. After plugging it and enjoying it for a while you begin to wonder: who is Coleco? Where is it located? Whose vision came to fruition to offer me this console? For the very first time, discover the…
