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The NES Revolution: The NES Era Vol. III • NES and the Peak of 8-Bit By Jeremy Parish. This is an open pre-order for a limited time. This book will not be reprinted—this is your only chance to own it!
PRE-ORDERS CLOSE ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2025 AT 11:59 PM EASTERN TIME.
Features:
- Hardcover
- Full color
- English-language text
- 12x12”
- 240 pages
Covers more than 220 games from Nintendo, Atari, INTV, and Sega. A comprehensive photographic atlas of the American console market before the 16-bit console wars began!
PLEASE NOTE: There is no purchase limit on this item. This item is currently in manufacturing and artwork is subject to change.
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Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System with this third and final oversized hardcover coffee table book chronicling the console and its competitors! Explore the days when Nintendo’s first console and 8-bit systems from Sega and Atari ruled supreme with this collection of photos and screenshots. This book covers it all!
The Pinnacle of 8-Bit Gaming!
When people think “console wars,” they think back to the 16-bit era of Sega Genesis and Super NES. But before those systems arrived in America, the 8-bit console landscape was every bit as vibrant—not to mention contentious—as the 16-bit days. Relive the 8-bit console conflicts here as all the major and minor players alike mastered the nuances of their hardware and pushed the boundaries of game design forward. Did you side with refined NES masterpieces like Super Mario Bros. 2 and Mega Man 2, cutting-edge Sega adventures like Phantasy Star and Shinobi, or advanced Atari efforts like Desert Falcon and Dark Chambers? Were you a mail-order loyalist for the fading Intellivision? Or did you simply prefer to wait for the arrival of portable entertainment with the shiny new Game Boy? No matter what your 8-bit preferences, NES and the Peak of 8-Bit chronicles it all with vivid color photography and direct-capture screenshots!
This book covers all U.S. releases (Jan. 1988 through Aug. 1989) for the following systems:
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- Sega Master System
- Atari 7800
- Atari XE Game System
- Mattel Intellivision
- Atari 2600
- Nintendo Game Boy
Video Game History Like You’ve Never Seen It Before!
NES and the Peak of 8-Bit features high-quality original photography of the box art for more than 220 different games, as well as reference screenshots captured directly from original hardware. The 12x12” format means that nearly all of these boxes appear at larger-than-life sizes to capture the detailed art and vibrant design work that caught kids’ eyes in toy stores 40 years ago. You may know the NES’s story, but you’ve never seen the history of gaming presented like this before.
