The Comic Book Story of Video Games : The Incredible History of the Electronic Gaming Revolution

A whole, illustrated historical past of video video games–highlighting the machines, video games, and individuals who have made gaming a worldwide, billion-dollar business/artform–informed in a graphic novel format. Writer Jonathan Hennessey and illustrator Jack McGowan current the primary full-color, chronological origin story for this massively profitable, omnipresent artform and enterprise. Hennessey supplies readers with every thing they should find out about video video games–from their early beginnings throughout World Warfare II to the emergence of arcade video games within the 1970s to the rise of Nintendo to at this time’s app-based video games like Offended Birds and Pokemon Go. Hennessey and McGowan additionally analyze the evolution of gaming as an artform and its affect on society. Every chapter options spotlights on main gamers within the growth of video games and gaming that incorporates every thing that players and non-gamers alike want to grasp and admire this unbelievable phenomenon.