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Contact: Brett Weiss
brettw105@sbcglobal.net
10th Anniversary of the “Classic
Home Video Games” book series.
June 7, 2017
This summer marks the 10th anniversary
of the critically acclaimed "Classic Home Video Games" series,
written by longtime gamer and author Brett Weiss.
“I can’t believe it’s already been a
decade,” Weiss said, reflecting on his magnum opus. “There were very few books
on retro gaming at the time. Now you could fill four or five tall bookshelves.”
The original hardcover version of Classic Home Video Games: 1972-1984 was
published in July of 2007, around the time such YouTubers as The Angry Video
Game Nerd were getting popular, and shortly after the debut of the Wii Virtual
Console, which brought old video games into modern gamers’ homes.
A key publication in the retro gaming
boom of the last decade, Classic Home
Video Games: 1972-1984 was the first video game book published by McFarland
(which now has an entire line of video game books), and it was the first book in
the history of publishing to fully catalog and describe every U.S. release for
such consoles as the Atari 5200, ColecoVision, Intellivision, Odyssey 2, and
Vectrex.
The "Classic Home Video Games"
series, which was awarded several official Twin Galaxies Trading Cards, also
features the first books to catalog and describe every game for the NES,
TurboGrafx-16, Neo Geo, Sega Genesis, Sega Master System, Atari 7800, Adventure
Vision, APF MP1000, Astrocade, Fairchild Channel F, MicroVision, Odyssey, RCA
Studio II, and Telstar Arcade.
What the experts have said about Classic
Home Video Games 1972-1984:
“a labor of love...comprehensive...recommended”
--Library Journal
“thoroughly researched” --Game Informer
“A must-read...both fun and informative,
a highly recommended purchase.” --Video Game Collector
“Weiss's deep familiarity with his
chosen subject matter is an asset of the text, and as a writer he conveys information
clearly and without pretension...Weiss's reviews of obscure games make the book
a treasure...impressive and fun book...valuable...the breadth of coverage here
is astounding...a fun read and a nostalgic trip supreme...undeniably smart,
historically valuable and wide-ranging in coverage.” --GameCulture Journal
Author Brett Weiss is available for
interviews:
817-247-0500
brettw105@sbcglobal.net
brettweisswords.com
@BrettWeissCHVG
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