The History of Video Games

This guide is a potted historical past of video video games, telling all of the curler coaster tales of this fascinating younger business that’s now twice as massive globally than the movie and music industries mixed. Every chapter explores the historical past of video video games by way of a special lens, giving a uniquely well-rounded overview.

Filled with footage and stats, this guide is for video players nostalgic for the nice previous days of gaming, and younger players interested in the way it all started. In the event you’ve ever loved a online game, otherwise you simply need to see what all of the fuss is about, this guide is for you.

There are tales concerning the experimental video games of the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties; the arrival of dwelling gaming within the Seventies; the explosion – and implosion – of arcade gaming within the Eighties; the console wars of the Nineties; the expansion of on-line and cell video games within the 2000s; and we get proper updated with the 2010s, together with such cultural phenomena as twitch.television, the Gamergate scandal, and Fortnite.

However fairly than telling the entire story from starting to finish, every chapter covers the historical past of video video games from a special angle: platforms and know-how, folks and personalities, corporations and capitalism, gender and illustration, tradition, neighborhood, and at last the video games themselves.

Writer ‏ : ‎ White Owl (August 12, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 120 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1526778971
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1526778970
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 kilos
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.43 x 0.63 x 11.73 inches