I adore video games, but at the tender age of 30, I’m well aware there are substantial gaps in my education.
My earliest memories are of the 2000Spider-ManandX-Men: Mutant Academyon the originalPlayStation. I know that when I tell this to some people, they turn to dust. Just as I feel the cruel hand of father time on my shoulder any time the younger members of the GAMINGbible team tell me the DS was their first console.
So for me, there aredecadesof history to catch up on. I’ve gone back and played many of the classics, of course, but what about the weirder and more obscure corners of gaming that helped shape the industry into what it is today?
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Mike covers all the major players, of course, and devotes plenty of space to the likes of theNintendo Entertainment System,PlayStation 2, andXbox 360. But even as we wander these well-trodden memories, Mike manages to weave in genuinely interesting tidbits you probably didn’t know.
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Naturally, Mike also delights in diving into some of the more obscure corners of gaming history. You can read all about some of the hardware that never left Japan, and failed experiments that’ll leave you wondering how video games ever managed to survive as long as they did. A video game console that used VHS tapes is, I discovered after reading this book, a very real thing.
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Topics:PlayStation,Xbox,Nintendo
