Books

17 results found
Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Ken Uston's Home Video '83 Ken Uston's Home Video '83 Ken Uston This is a review, hints, tips, and strategies guide to 25 video games. It also reviews the video game consoles that were available at the time, the Atari 5200, Atari VCS, {Atari Video Computer System… OL17845930W
Ken Uston's Home Video '83 Ken Uston's Home Video '83 Ken Uston This is a review, hints, tips, and strategies guide to 25 video games. It also reviews the video game consoles that were available at the time, the Atari 5200, Atari VCS, {Atari Video Computer System… OL17845933W
Electronic Games Electronic Games Walter H. Buchsbaum,Robert Mauro This is a detailed electronics how-to, educational, programming, and design book. The book describes how computers work, and offers detailed schematics, and diagrams, of how electronic components can… OL17890407W
Zap, The Rise and Fall of Atari Zap, The Rise and Fall of Atari Scott Cohen This is a history, and retrospective book, detailing the history of the company "Atari" from it's founding, until the video game crash in 1983. It also gives historical context about other computer a… OL279987W
Video Games Video Games Daniel Cohen This book looks at the history of video games and some of the games that became popular. The first chapter tells how they became popular, and how they were made. The second chapter tells how video ga… OL3678561W
Mastering Pac-Man Mastering Pac-Man Ken Uston This is a tips and strategy guide to the arcade video game Pac-Man. It has many illustrations of the game screen, (not screenshots). It is designed to help players get better scores or simple play lo… OL4117049W
Scoring Big at Pac Man Scoring Big at Pac Man Craig Kubey This is a tips, hints, and strategy book to the arcade video game, "Pac-Man." It has three pages of screen illustration mapping out three different routes through the mazes the reader can use. The fi… OL4453413W
The Winners' Book of Video Games The Winners' Book of Video Games Craig Kubey This is a history, review, hints, tips, and strategy book for arcade and home video games. It has 6 game screen illustrations, and 7 comic type drawings. It described the history of the industry, and… OL4453416W
Video Invaders Video Invaders Steve Bloom This is a history and review book for videogames. It's 'Introduction' tells how the author came to play pinball games, and traces these games back to 1871 and other coin operated electronic games. In… OL4506904W
Electronic Games Electronic Games Fred D'Ignazio This is a history, and explanation, and tips book, describing various aspects of electronic games. From early computers to handheld devises, pinball machines, arcade and home video games. The book's … OL4989670W
The Vid Kid's Book of Home Video Games The Vid Kid's Book of Home Video Games Rawson Stovall This is a video game reveiw and tips book. The 83 reviews in this book are a collection of newspaper columns titled "The Video Beat", by the "Vid Kid" {Rawson Stovall}. The book is text only, with no… OL5609016W
How to Beat Atari, Intellivision, and Other Home Video Games How to Beat Atari, Intellivision, and Other Home Video Games Michael Blanchet This is a hint, tips, and strategy, and review guide for home console video games, for the Atari Video Computer System, and the Intellivision, and Odyssey 2 game systems. There are illustrations of e… OL5895765W
The Video Player's Back-Pocket Guide to The Video Player's Back-Pocket Guide to Fred Goldstein,Stan Goldstein This is a series of hints, tips, and strategy guides to arcade video games. They features illustrations of the games screen by Bob Lyons, showing the games screens, and levels, as well as various ite… OL6377237W
The Sparrow Book of Video Games The Sparrow Book of Video Games Frank Webb This book covers games for the Atari Video Computer System, (VCS)/Atari 2600, arcade video games, and handheld stand along games. Each game is reviewed and it's playing style described, then for most… OL7721661W
How to Win at Video Games How to Win at Video Games George Sullivan This book is a history, tips and strategy guide to video games. The first chapter examines video games popularity, how they are made, how to pick and study a game to understand how to play, and the… OL7965687W
How to Master Home Video Games How to Master Home Video Games Tom Hirschfeld This is a hint, tips, and strategy guide for the 15 home video games, for the Atari Video Computer System, and the Intellivision, game system. There are illustrations of each game, and explanations a… OL8367264W
Official Video Game & Pinball Book Of World Records Official Video Game & Pinball Book Of World Records Walter Day This is a book of records, a history of the Twin Galaxies' Arcade, and the author's efforts to create video game competitions for skilled players to make game playing a sport. It has scores, best tim… OL8905547W