The biography of Alain Huyghues -Lacour, a famous french journalist specialized in videogames, better known as "AHL." This book tells us the quite unusual life of a young musician who ended up being a videogame journalist, with unique in-between jobs such as being the personal secretary of the singer Demis Roussos. This book is divided in very short chapters (4-8 pages) detailling both the musical career of Alain, and the career of AHL in the world of french videogaming press. And it's
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Keywords : AHL, biography, press, france, joystick, joypad, console+, tilt
The biography of Sébastien Pissavy, founder of the famous french gaming news website "jeuxvideo.com." The author tells us about the birth of this website and the company behind it, "l'Odyssée Interactive." It all began with the "ETJAV", the french videogames cheat codes encyclopedia, which was distributed to friends and through some magazines. Then came the ETAJV minitel service, alongside with the founding of a company that will later create a website
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Keywords : jeuxvideo.com, sébastien pissavy, biography, etajv, france, odyssee interactive
This bible is dedicated to the Super Nintendo home console (also known as Super Famicom and SNES). The first part of the book tells the history of this console through a quite detailed chapter featuring a lot of pictures. The second and main part of the book is dedicated to a list of every game ever released for this console. Each one of the 2000 games is presented through a couple of screenshots alongside with a small description text. The book then details a selection of "coll
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Keywords : bible, history, encyclopedia, super nintendo, super famicom, snes
This book unveils the story of a very important home console: the Sony PlayStation. Thanks to the interviews of more than twenty people who worked on this project, the author, also a member of the team, invites us to a journey behind the scenes of the creation process of this console. By mixing these various interviews, each chapter of the book details the different stages of the PlayStation project: an awkward beginning when Sony partnered with Nintendo to create a CD-Rom drive for the Super NE
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Keywords : playstation, revolution, sony, men in the shadows, industry, home console
This book unveils the story of a very important home console: the Sony PlayStation. It focuses on Ken Kutaragi, the key person in this project, who is today acknowledged as the "father of the Playstation." The author tells us how this visionary engineer lead Sony to tackle the home video game console market, in spite of the vigorous opposition shown by many other people in the company. Each chapter of the book details the different stages of the PlayStation project: the initial inspi
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Keywords : playstation, revolution, sony, ken kutaragi, industry, home console
This bible is dedicated to the PC Engine home console (also known as TurboGrafx 16). This second volume starts by telling you the story of how this console arrived in France, alongside with the story of studio RED, the creators of the famous "PC Kid" game. But the main part of the book is a full listing of every game ever released for this console on the CD-ROM format (more that 400 games). Each game is presented with a screenshot alongside with a small text describing it. A refere
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Keywords : history, pc engine, turbografx 16, cd-rom, bible
The biography of Yoshihisa Kishimoto, a japanese game creator unknown by the general public, although he created one of the most famous videogame series: "Double Dragon". This well written book is full of pictures and starts by telling you the childhood of this little-known genius, alongside with his thug-like youth where he was always eager to fight inside and outside of school. He hopefully changed his lifestyle before becoming a real criminal. Fond of movies, he then started to crea
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Keywords : yoshihisa kishimoto, double dragon, kunio-kun, renegade, thunder strom, road avenger, vier, biography
The autobiography of Ralph Baer, the inventor of home video game consoles. Released in 1972, the Magnavox Odyssey is one of the starting points of the history of video games. First of all, it's the first video console solely dedicated to games. Moreover, one of its titles, Ping-Pong, was a direct source of inspiration for Atari to create Pong. Through a book featuring many pictures, Ralph Baer details us the process he followed to invent this first console ever. As a natural-born engineer,
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Keywords : ralph baer, magnavox odyssey, first video game, simon, lawsuit, biography
This bible is dedicated to the Amiga computer. The first part of the book tells you the story of this computer through a detailed history featuring several interviews with creators of Amiga games and demos. The second and main part of the book is dedicated to a listing of the most interesting games ever released for this computer. Each one of the 1200 games is presented through a couple of screenshots alongside with a small text describing it. A reference book for anyone interested in the A
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Keywords : history, amiga, commodore, bible
An analysis book dedicated to the "Metal Gear" game series. This text-only book is divided in two main parts. The first one, which represents about 3/4 of the book pages, begins with a quick presentation of each title in the series (from "Metal Gear" to "Metal Gear Solid : Peace Walker"). It then tells you the scenario of the whole series, rewritten as a one-piece story. This story is very interesting, and is greatly rewritten to be as entertaining as any good thril
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Keywords : metal gear solid, analysis, story, hideo kojima