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With over 200,000 followers on YouTube as "The Nostaligia Nerd", Peter Leigh is well known to his loyal fans for his in-depth videos about the software, hardware, games, toys, programs and magazines of the 70s, 80s and 90s. He has no shame admitting his addition to retro tech (indeed it would be hard to hide).
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Product details
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Ilex Press (November 6, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1781575703
ISBN-13: 978-1781575703
Product Dimensions:
6.2 x 1.1 x 8.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.3 out of 5 stars
19 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#40,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I purchased this on a bit of a whim because of an Amazon's $5 off of $20 in book holiday deal and the net result is that I wasted my money. I like retro video/computer gaming and am a bit of a sucker for this kind of stuff and in this case I was definitely a sucker.This book is a bit on the small size. It's about 220 pages of content, but they are small (roughly 8.5" x 5.5") pages. That would be fine if the content was solid (we'll get to that in a sec) but there seems to be an awful lot of white/empty space on the pages. The pages that introduce a platform have roughly 1/5 of the page blank along the outer edge (which contains just a page number) and the pages with game titles that are recommended have plenty of space between each of the 3 entries. This book is certainly not overflowing with content its 220 pages.But if the content was solid for a $22 retail price tag I'd still be ok, but the content appears to have plenty of errors. I just received the book today and in flipping through it for an hour or so I've noted that:Page 132... the title which is supposed to be TurboGrafx is misspelled (yes, the big bold faced title at the top of the page [fortunately it's correct in the index]).In the Atari 400/800 section... 4 pictures of an Atari 400 (different angles), 1 of an 800 XL, but none of the Atari 800. The caption is 400/800, but there's an 800XL and not an 800?? Nitpicky? Maybe.Then there's the TRS-80 section... uhm, I'm pretty sure there were multiple models of TRS-80 computers such as the Model I, III, and IV. To just lump them together is ignorance and certainly not worthy of a book on retrogaming. However, they did break out the TRS-80 Color Computer... yet decided to picture computers other than the TRS-80 CoCo in that section.Then in the Sinclair Spectrum section there's a random photo of a ZX-81 with a printer along with a side view on the ZX-81. Shouldn't those be in the ZX80/81 section. But no... that section is just for the ZX-80 (and the reality is the ZX-80 and ZX-81 are two distinct computers and each should have their own section).Then there's mobile gaming which is left as a footnote in the back of the book.. and I've lost interest in this book.One thing I usually like about these books is getting tips on games that I've missed... especially on other hardware (as I was an Atari guy in the 80s, but am now interested in the various other platforms). Now opinions are opinions, but I just don't get some of the author's opinions. That doesn't mean they are wrong, but hear me out. For a start K-razy Shoot-out is listed as the game to avoid on the Atari 5200. K-razy Shoot-out is a great game and a solid Berzerk clone... that's why it, as the author notes, won an award from EGM magazine. And then the MUST PLAY title on the Commodore Amiga is Secret of Monkey Island?? Yes, a great game, but one that hardly shows off what makes the Amiga special... I'd just as soon play that on any platform. And now even as I am writing this I note that "Oil's Well" as a ColecoVision Must Play title is misspelled. I'm just finding way too many errors.In a nutshell, this looks like a rush job of a book meant to cash in on the popularity of retro gaming. It has some nice pictures, but certainly shouldn't be your #1 choice for a retro book... and probably should be your #2 either. You can do much better.
I got this book to remind me of my old days of computing and games consoles when I was a kid. Physically this is a very well made book, with nice colorful card stock like pages, and with a layout that almost anyone can read and enjoy.However the book which is set out as a time line does have a several errors and absent systems in it.Note that I ordered this book released for deliver on November 6 for $19.99. On November 6 the priced was changed to $17.99 so I apparently paid that. Then later that day I got a partial refund because the book was reduced to $13.51. The on November 7 the same hardback book was showing a price of only $9.47 (for new) which I did not get a refund. Now when I look for this it is showing it again for $13.15.
Peter Leigh has done a great job at describing all of the major gaming consoles and computers from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. For each system he gives a detailed description, basic stats, pictures, and three representative games - the "must see", "must play", and "must avoid". Peter's descriptions are funny and spot on. He also brings a unique UK perspective, and describes gaming systems that were widespread not just in North America but also in Europe and Asia.As other have noted, the book did suffer from a few spelling mistakes, missing words, a duplicated paragraph (p.70), and a misplaced photo (p. 130). It feels like a second pass by an editor could have caught all of these. Perhaps a second printing could be done that corrects these boo boos. But aside from these, the book is an excellent reference that I'm sure I'll be using over and over again.
First impressions: great, solid, colorful little tome nails the aesthetics. Content strikes me as an excellent swath of the market for the beginner, and for anyone who has a passing interest in history, tech, or business, there is a lot to learn here. Obviously a labor of love and surprisingly heavy on content; easily could have taken up a solid 60+ pages with no images and tight literary formatting. A bargain for hardcover at this price, and well packed.One does get the feeling with the font size and layout that a large format coffee table treatment was the original intent and would be the best fit. Perhaps if it sells well, we can get that along with the usual editing fixes etc.
I follow Nostalgia Nerd's YouTube videos about retro computing . He is very informative and funny. When he mentioned his book, I wanted to support his efforts and bought one .As a start, the book is quite good and contains a number of retro computers and consoles all the way to X-Box. Each entry has a story and three sections about games must see, play and avoid .However, the size of book is small ( not that of a coffee table ) and the fonts used describing the games are very tiny (and usually in a dark background.)There are some computers not mentioned in the book. For example - Tangerine Oric1!/Atmos, Tatung Einstein, Grundy Newbrain, Memotech MTX, Enterprise 64/128 to name a few. I hope some of these will be included in the second edition.Overall a nice reference book , but not definitely for your coffee table.
So, this is a well done and written book. For the quality, I felt the price was acceptable. My only gripe, which shouldn't effect the score, I was hoping to get an entire systems list. For example, Sega Saturn has general American and Asian versions of their console, then they have versions that were manufactured by Hitachi. I would've wanted to see All known versions of all of the systems mentioned. Other then that, it's a great book. Way better for collectors or people with a lack of video game system knowledge. For someone like me who's in between, it's a hit or miss.
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