Book: The golden age of video games and the specialized press Edition - Geeks Line
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Video game journalist and editor-in-chief of some of the biggest video game magazines, J'm Destroy, through his personal experience, delivers a rich and original story on the genesis of video games and the specialized press that conquered millions of teenagers in the 1990s. The story of a generation, that of the video game generation.
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The Golden Age of Video Games and Specialized Press Edition - Geeks Line
With this third volume of the PlayStation Anthology, the story of the console that shook up the video game industry comes to an end. The arrival of new competition (Nintendo GameCube, Sega DreamCast) and Microsoft (Xbox) changes the situation for Sony, which must show even more creativity and brilliance to continue to establish the leading position of its favorite console, while planning for the future and sustainability of the PlayStation brand.
In this latest volume, the authors have focused on meeting the players who, through their talent, contributed to the success of the machine, on chronicling all the games released from 2000 to 2006, on presenting the "collector" versions that excite all collectors, on analyzing the impact of the new accessories and the PSOne on a rapidly changing market. A conclusion that does honor to the PlayStation epic.
SUMMARY - 404 pages:
- The Story of PlayStation: Final Act
Nintendo, Sega, Microsoft: competition on the move
A new revolution at Sony
A new millennium
It's raining games!
Million sellers baby
Between Two Worlds (2001)
The Phantom Menace
New harvest (2002)
Generation PlayStation (2003-2005)
- The interviews
Katsuhiro Harada (Namco)
Minoru Kidooka (ARC System)
Akitoshi Kawazu (Squaresoft / Square Enix)
Suda 51 (Grasshopper)
Akira Yasuda - Akiman (Capcom)
- The complete toy library
Introduction
Year 2000 (694 chronicles)
Year 2001 (390 chronicles)
Year 2002 (288 chronicles)
Year 2003 (107 chronicles)
Years 2004, 2005, 2006 (34 chronicles)
- Collector's & atypical versions
- The Hardware
- The index
- Collector Bonus
10 years of the most beautiful PlayStation covers
This collector's edition includes the classic version plus:
A luxury box, hot-stamped gold
A limited and numbered edition
24 additional unpublished pages
Specific and exclusive coverage
A unique copy
PAGINATION 404 pages
FORMAT 216x297 mm
COVER Cardboard, Pantone colors, selective varnish
BINDING Square back / glued, thread-edge
PAPER High density 135gr/m2
4-COLOR PRINTING