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The Art Of Video Games: From Pac-Man To Mass Effect (2012)

by Chris Melissinos(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

159962110X (ISBN13: 9781599621104)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Welcome Books

review 1: Nice coffee-table book tied to an Smithsonian exhibition of video game art. I enjoyed the games chosen and the interviews, but the layout doesn't *quite* work for the earlier games -- blown up on the page, they look even rougher than they did on the TV screens of their time. It's not a big problem, I just feel like they needed more inset pictures so readers can see the games as we did at the time.
review 2: I bought this at the museum exhibit in DC this spring. I heavily skimmed it when I bought it but will now go through and read it.Very enjoyable. Lots of critiques about how it is incomplete (games represented, industry figures interviewed). That may be true, as there are many games I'd have liked to see here. However, it was well done and resonates well ... morefor anybody that started playing Atari and now plays the current generation of consoles. less

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