This revised and expanded second edition of the bestselling The Game Console incorporates brand new content, with coverage of 50 more consoles, variants, and accessories in 50 added pages. The Game Console 2.0 is a beautiful coffee table book for geeks and gamers that brings together highly detailed photos of more than 100 video game consoles and their electronic interiors spanning nearly five decades.
Revised and up to date since the first edition’s celebrated 2018 release,
The Game Console 2.0 is an even bigger archival collection of vividly detailed photos of more than 100 video-game consoles. This ultimate archive of gaming history spans five decades and nine distinct generations, chronologically covering the whole thing from market leaders to outright failures, and tracing the gaming industry’s rise, fall, and monumental resurgence.The book’s 2nd edition features more classic game consoles and computers, a section on unfashionable gaming in the brand new era, and dozens of new entries — including super-rare finds, such the Unisonic Champion 2711, and the contemporary ninth-generation consoles. You’ll find coverage of legendary systems like the Magnavox Odyssey, Atari 2600, NES, and the Commodore 64; systems from the ‘90s and 2000s; brand new consoles like the Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5; and consoles you never knew existed.
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The Game Console 2.0 — the very best gift for geeks of all stripes and each and every gamer’s will have to-have coffee-table book.
