HIGH SCORE! the illustrated history of electronic games

[Captain Vegetable]

Originally posted by Melf
I'll have to stop by the bookstore and pick up a copy. How much did it cost, Jeff?

USD$25.

[Low]

It also states that the Saturn is the first system to ship with a modem built-in. A few too many errors for me, the pictures are lovely though. *-neo

[Regus]

Originally posted by JefmcC

I'll go as far as to call this book the current "bible" of video games.

Wow, is it better than Phoenix?

And I'm amazed if anyone actually finished Game Over, I thought it became extremely dry and boring during all the Tetris stuff.

[Punky Skunk]

Originally posted by Regus

And I'm amazed if anyone actually finished Game Over, I thought it became extremely dry and boring during all the Tetris stuff.

Haha. I just finished the book a few days ago and I thought the same of a few sections. Any time a legal issue was brought up, it nearly put me to sleep with inane detail (while something a lot more interesting was glossed over). The Tetris part had to be the worst, though, with "OMG, who REALLY has the rights to Tetris!!?" for 100 pages. Cut to the chase, thanks.

I also hated how he jumped back and forth so much. Some of it couldn't be helped, but it seemed really disorganized at points, to where he'd make a transition from 92 back to 88 just like that. It was a pretty good book, however (I liked Andy Eddy's additional chapters more than the whole of the original book, I must say).

[Regus]

And I don't know about you, but I did not like how he would go indepth about people's past lives. It was as if whenever a new person came into the spotlight, he would go at length about their childhood or some other irrellevant info.

I want to learn about games, not the subtle intricacies of Minoru Arakara's marriage.

[Punky Skunk]

Originally posted by Regus
And I don't know about you, but I did not like how he would go indepth about people's past lives. It was as if whenever a new person came into the spotlight, he would go at length about their childhood or some other irrellevant info.

I want to learn about games, not the subtle intricacies of Minoru Arakara's marriage.

I agree. I know more about his marriage and drinking habits now than I ever cared to.

I really would like to see a book, you know, focus more on the actual games. The business side of things is cool to a point, but how many times I had wished they'd mention Kid Icarus or something. No author seems to want to go that deep into it, I guess. Even The First Quarter didn't mention games nearly enough for my liking.

[Stibbons]

High Score is a good read, but it's really dry and boring. Facts are just listed one after the other with no real passion or variety to the text.

I recommend the Ultimate History of Video Games. It doesn't cover the computer gaming scene, of which I am a fan of, but I'd rather a book not cover the topic at all than to bore the shit out of me like High Score.

Buy High Score for the pictures, not the text.

[NeoZeedeater]

I just took the book Supercade out of the library today. It has tons of pictures and it covers a lot of stuff from Higinbotham to 1984.

[Johnny Undaunted]

Originally posted by JefmcC
It also states that VF 3 was on Saturn, which is wrong. page 282.

VF3 was actually planned for the Saturn at some point along with an add-on for the Saturn. Not that it matters now.

[JefmcC]

Originally posted by Regus

Wow, is it better than Phoenix?

And I'm amazed if anyone actually finished Game Over, I thought it became extremely dry and boring during all the Tetris stuff.

I guess I take that bible comment back. I should have said something like, it fits nice with the other books out there on the same subject.

I haven't read Pheonix yet. I've been meaning to pick it up though.

Melf- Yeah, the book was $25 at Barnes & Noble.