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Author: Jack Railton

Genre: Popular Culture
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780749082062
Pages: 288
Rights: World
Pub. Date: 2005-09-01

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Price: £12.99

Format: Hardback

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A pot pourri of memorable games from yesteryear, an assembly of computers and consoles, and lots of data on the more bizarre and well-loved pieces of paraphernalia, attitudes and add-ons that helped define the glory years of the computing scene.  A quick flick through will bring forth dormant memories of your own gaming years and make you remember how great and fabulous it was to be growing up in the age of the silicon chip. 

From PacMan to PingPong, The A-Z of Cool Computer Games is the ultimate compendium of all the great (and not so great) games of the Eighties and Nineties:

The Games:  From the banal (Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time) to the anal (Strip Poker), all the most important and best-remembered titles are lovingly recalled and humorously dissected. 

Amusement Arcades:  The best games; the most frightening boys and the rules of engagement.

The Social Mores: Dads believing they should be the family expert; the parlance of pirated games; computer fads.

The Computers:  The systems of yore from Acorn to the ZX Spectrum; which consoles were corkers and which were just plain rubbish.

The Paraphernalia: Joysticks, Tape boxes, manuals, computer characters, colour protection codes, TV ads, magazines and loads of other ancillary ephemera.