Game On! An Illustrated History of Video Games from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario and Minecraft
19.99 €
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Game On! An Illustrated History of Video Games from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario and Minecraft
19.99 €
Video games are a huge and integral part of modern culture. They surround us from all sides and come in many different forms: from cell phones, which you can use to kill time in a queue, to online games, where professional cyber sportsmen fight. And sometimes games even spill over into other formats - books and movies are based on them.
This book is entirely filled with interesting facts about famous video games that are on everyone's lips. Bet you don't know all of them, do you?
For example:
- The developers of Halo 2 drank over 24,000 gallons of soda during the creation of the game;
- Mario was named after the man who rented out office space to Nintendo's US office;
- the ghosts in Pac-Man are the first example of artificial intelligence in a video game;
- NFL players not only played Madden, but also used it as a training aid;
- Tetris' theme song is a 19th century Russian folk song;
- It took Markus Persson about a week to develop the first version of Minecraft.
And that's just a small part of it. Inside you will find a historical overview of the development of video games from the first arcade machines to modern technology - detailed, but written in simple and engaging language. Fascinating facts, stories about the creation of games, passwords and many illustrations will allow you to truly immerse yourself in the world of video games and learn a lot about this fascinating industry.
This book is entirely filled with interesting facts about famous video games that are on everyone's lips. Bet you don't know all of them, do you?
For example:
- The developers of Halo 2 drank over 24,000 gallons of soda during the creation of the game;
- Mario was named after the man who rented out office space to Nintendo's US office;
- the ghosts in Pac-Man are the first example of artificial intelligence in a video game;
- NFL players not only played Madden, but also used it as a training aid;
- Tetris' theme song is a 19th century Russian folk song;
- It took Markus Persson about a week to develop the first version of Minecraft.
And that's just a small part of it. Inside you will find a historical overview of the development of video games from the first arcade machines to modern technology - detailed, but written in simple and engaging language. Fascinating facts, stories about the creation of games, passwords and many illustrations will allow you to truly immerse yourself in the world of video games and learn a lot about this fascinating industry.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Legendary computer games