Arcade Fever: The Fan's Guide to the Golden Age of Video Games

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Overview

Do you remember the difference between playing 'singles' and 'doubles'? Have you mastered the delicate art of hyperspace? Can you say 'joystick' in polite conversation without blushing? If you¹ve answered 'yes' to any of these questions, then Arcade Fever is the book for you‹the world¹s first illustrated tribute to Asteroids, Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Q*bert, Gauntlet and many more of the mind-blowing games you played in your youth. You want to reminisce about the coolest Atari cartridges, the silliest-named arcade oddities, and the funkiest bass riff ever used in a video game? You want interviews with early arcade heroes like Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, Robotron designer Eugene Jarvis and 'Pac-Man Fever' composers Buckner + Garcia? You want to look at revealing pictures of Dragon¹s Lair hottie Princess Daphne? It¹s all in Arcade Fever, an infectious celebration of ¹70s and ¹80s arcade culture.
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Entertainment Weekly
Remember when Space Invaders ruled the planet and "Pac-Man Fever" was a top 10 hit? John Sellers does, and his illustrated history of the arcade's glory days will push any game geek's thrust button. Fever not only describes the joystick controls and strategies that turned millions of teens into addicts in search of a Berzerk fix but puts Frogger into pop-cultural context-as a Saturday-morning Supercade cartoon and Seinfeld sight gag. Sellers, a former Donkey Kong champion, would have won some free credits by including more interviews with game designers, and Dig Dug-ing up the back stories that make some fo the entries blast off. But anyone who longs for the cacophonous wokka-wokka-wokka of the local arcade will give this book a pretty high score. Grade: B.
Maxim Online
John Seller¹s Arcade Fever takes the reader back to the pre-PlayStation days by profiling virtually all of the classic (and not so classic) games, from the ubiquitous (Space Invaders) to the obscure and OCD-inducing (Bubbles). Each game examined not only gets a write-up, but has each of its vital statistics catalogued, with sidebars on cultural minutae like the Zaxxon board game and Pac-Man television shows, and even some interviews with key figures from video game history. Anyone who remembers a time when Mario wasn¹t yet ³super² and Moon Patrol was the height of technology will enjoy reliving their high score moments with Arcade Fever. If Arcade Fever is a disease, we don¹t need no cure.
Philadelphia Weekly
...Sellers' book is magnificently researched, with an enthusiasm for the subject matter that bubbles out through the pages like so many dangling pairs of cherries...Sellers, a onetime writer for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, has a conversational prose style, dotted with special bonus translations of game sound effects. As might well be expected, the book is filled with pop culture referecnes to Footloose, Battlesatar Galactica and Honeycomb breakfast cereal...It's the forgotten nuggets, like the fact that the rock group Journey was the subject of a game and that Captain
Time Out New York
Do you long for Pong? Does your heart belong to Ms. Pac-Man? If you're nostalgic for the early days of video games, check out Arcade Fever: The Fan's Guide to the Golden Age of Video Games, written by John Sellers. After you're a few pages into this fond tribute, suddenly vast hazy expanses of your youth will come back into focus.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780762409372
  • Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
  • Publication date: 7/28/2001
  • Pages: 160
  • Product dimensions: 8.08 (w) x 9.08 (h) x 0.41 (d)

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  • Posted April 27, 2009

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    This is Good

    If you like the classic arcade games of the 80's you will enjoy this book. Glossy full color pages. A trip down memory lane.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 19, 2003

    good novelty value, but not very in-depth

    This book is a lot of fun. there are many large, color pictures, with fun captions and nostalgia facts. There is no real depth here, and not much technical information. But if you want a trip down memory lane that is fun and easy to read, this is your book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 14, 2002

    Excellent reading for anyone who remembers a time when a quarter was worth something.

    An excellent book. I found this book, by accident, and once I read and started remembering those days when riding your bike 2 miles with only 1 quarter in your pocket to play a game of Super Pac-Man was not all that unusual, it was like being a kid again.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 1, 2001

    ARCADE FEVER

    There is truely nothing like the video arcade....It is a sanctuary for gamers of all ages to come together in friendly competition and spirited battle....Arcade Fever captures gaming knowledge and the atmosphere of the Arcade....Of all books on Arcades, Arcade Fever has truely become my Bible....

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