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Title: Not just the games
Review: A beautiful, magnificent book chock full of sumptious photographs, not just of the games, but of the surrounding artifacts, too: advertisements, sell sheets, internal documents, Atari's trademark registration certificate, Ed Logg's design sketches for Asteroids, bits of design documents of unreleased games, Al Alcorn's hand-wired home Pong protoype...There are also plenty of behind-the-scenes anecdotes.Of course, text-wise, there's not as much detail here as you would find in books like Game Over or The Last Quarter, but it's a terrific (essential, even) visual companion to those two excellent books. Plus, it covers more of the *computer* gaming side of the industry than the other videogame history books I've read.The authors' love of the subject material shines brightly on every page. Highly recommended.
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