Book: The golden age of video games and the specialized press Edition - Geeks Line
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Video games journalist and editor-in-chief of some of the biggest video game magazines, J'm Destroy, through his personal experience, delivers a rich and unpublished story on the genesis of video games and the specialized press which has conquered millions of teenager in the 1990s. The story of a generation, that of the video game generation.
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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 foreseeing the future and sustainability of the PlayStation brand.
Through this last volume, the authors have endeavored to meet the actors who, through their talent, collaborated in the success of the machine, to chronicle all the games released from 2000 to 2006, to present the "collector" versions which enthuse all collectors, to analyze the impact of 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's sellers baby
Between Two Worlds (2001)
The Phantom Menace
New harvests (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 game 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 & atypical versions
Hardware
The index
Bonus Collector
10 years of the most beautiful PlayStation covers
This collector's edition includes the classic version plus:
A luxury box, hot-gilded
A limited and numbered print
24 additional unpublished pages
Specific and exclusive coverage
A unique copy
FEATURES :
Format: 216x297 mm
Pagination: 404 pages
Cover: cardboard, pantone, selective varnish
Paper: high density 135gr/m2
Binding: square/glued spine, edge trimmer
Printing: four-color process