Secrets of Video Game Consoles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hart, Michael.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.) ill

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2022.

Summary:

If you want to fill your head with plenty of knowledge about your favorite video game consoles to amaze your friends with, then this book is for you!Did you know the Nintendo Wii had a medical condition named after it? Or that the Sega Saturn almost had the Nintendo 64's graphics chip? Did you realize the Atari Jaguar contained five different processors? Are you aware that a fake website about beekeeping was used to promote an Xbox game? Learn about all of this and more in this unique trivia book about the history of video game consoles that gives you the complete stories in detail!These facts cover a wide range of subjects, such as which console introduced certain technology and features, esoteric hardware oddities, marketing fails and successes, stories behind key games, how certain indispensable people shaped the whole industry, development history, court cases, peculiar events, weird relationships between companies and technical explanations. Plenty of these would be obscure facts that you may not know, but even if you are familiar with them, do you know the full story? 31 video game consoles stretching from 1972 to 2017 are covered, containing more than 235 in-depth facts, numerous other pieces of trivia and over 350 images to create a single package unlike any other that gamers of all ages will find interesting!If you want to fill your head with plenty of knowledge about your favorite video game consoles to amaze your friends with, then this book is for you!

Contents:

Cover

Book Title

Copyright

Contents

Fact count

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Magnavox Odyssey

Chapter 2 Fairchild Channel F

Chapter 3 Atari 2600

Chapter 4 Bally Astrocade

Chapter 5 Interton Video Computer 4000/Radofin 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System

Chapter 6 Magnavox Odyssey

Chapter 7 Mattel Intellivision

Chapter 8 Coleco ColecoVision

Chapter 9 Atari 5200 SuperSystem

Chapter 10 Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom

Chapter 11 Sega Master System/Mark III

Chapter 12 Atari 7800 ProSystem

Chapter 13 NEC TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine

Chapter 14 Sega Mega Drive/Genesis

Chapter 15 SNK Neo Geo AES

Chapter 16 Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom

Chapter 17 Atari Jaguar

Chapter 18 Sega Saturn

Chapter 19 Sony PlayStation

Chapter 20 Nintendo 64

Chapter 21 Sega Dreamcast

Chapter 22 Sony PlayStation 2

Chapter 23 Nintendo GameCube

Chapter 24 Microsoft Xbox

Chapter 25 Microsoft Xbox 360

Chapter 26 Sony PlayStation 3

Chapter 27 Nintendo Wii

Chapter 28 Nintendo Wii U

Chapter 29 Sony PlayStation 4

Chapter 30 Microsoft Xbox One

Chapter 31 Nintendo Switch

About the author

Bibliography

Back cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-3990-7092-4

1-3990-7090-8

OCLC:

1417758011