Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Nick Ferguson" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: paper and ink Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 18:41:23 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 46 Message-ID: <72hvs3$5bg17@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <72hpk7$5bg15@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <364c6b4e.22816931@news.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup137-41.saqnet.co.uk X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3115.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 >>'Re:play Ultimate Games Graphics' (ISBN 1-85669-140-3) >> >>Basically, this is a book full of screenshots. It showcases graphics from >>many of history's finest videogames including goldeneye, pong, tekken, >>wipeout 2097, sim city 2000, 1080 snowboarding, streetfighter 2, outrun, and >>donkey kong, to name but a few. >> >I've seen that book and it looks very interesting. Definitely going on >the purchases list. Yay! I bought it last weekend - I'd heard about it a few months ago and it looked v. interesting. Upon discovering it was a graphic design/ coffee table kinda thing with a bit of industry history thrown in among the (superb) pretty pictures, I had to buy it. Games are fast gaining credibility, and a book of this quality and maturity (and price - £20 - erp!) can only help matters. If you don't want to buy it, at least look it up. I was disturbed to see how many of the games in the book I own, or used to own. Hem. In keeping with the other theme of this thread, I buy EDGE regularly (actually, I susbscribe) and CVG still manages to make it onto my purchase list now and again. Arcade looks pretty interesting, tho' I haven't seen the first issue yet. EDGE is certainly my favourite mag, and being an EDGE journalist would be my dream job come the end of uni next summer. FYI, I also read Empire, Neon, The Face (ponce alert!) and Arena on a fairly regular basis. Oh, and Private Eye! If anyone wants to read an entertaining book on the games industry, try JC Herz's "Joystick Nation", or the book "Game Over" which gives a (rather dated) history of Nintendo... Later! Nick --------------------------- http://www.saqnet.co.uk/users/nickf http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~rookie1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Safe!" - Tanvir Khan, 1998