Title:
Video games : from Pong to the PS5
Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2024
Publication Information:
New York : Abbeville Press, 2024.
Physical Description:
223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
ISBN:
9780789214850
Abstract:
"A visual history of video games from 1958 to the present"-- Provided by publisher.
General Note:
"Published in collaboration with the Videogame Art Museum, Bologna"--Copyright page.
Includes index.
Translated from the Italian edition published in 2022.
Contents:
First generation 1972-1980: From the arcade to the living room -- Second generation 1976-1982: The heyday and collapse of the video game industry -- Third generation 1983-1990: 8-bits and the Far East -- Fourth generation 1987-1996: More detailed and realistic animation -- Fifth generation 1993-1999: The advent of the CD-ROM and the LAN Party -- Sixth generation 1998-2005: Polygons, textures, and multiplayer online games -- Seventh generation 2004-2012: The video game as art -- Eighth generation 2011-2021: Motion capture and virtual reality -- Ninth generation 2020-: Imagination becomes reality.
Subject Term:
Genre:
Language:
English
Additional Language:
In English. Translated from Italian.
