Rare collector’s item, retro-futuristic cases, bright logos, elaborate packaging and a generous helping of wistful nostalgia – in Electronic Plastic, a fascinating journey into the product design of the 80’s, Lopetz (Narita Inspected, Buero Destruct) and author Jaro Gielens present more than 380 of the prettiest and craziest handhelds and tabletops from the stone age of consumer electronics in this comprehensive homage.
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Over the last 5 years 28 year old Dutch Jaro Gielens collected more than 400 boxed Electronic Games. He lives and works as an interactive designer in Düsseldorf/ Germany.
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Forgotten art?,
By Hiland Hall (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Electronic Plastic (Paperback)
This book covers the art and design of those crappy little handheld games that were so popular in the 1980s...we're talking pre gameboy. I remember owning a few of these machines and also remember seeing a few in the stores that I wanted....this book really brings back a lot of memories and shows that we really have come very far in video game design.
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Don't forget the design,
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What's so striking about this book is its wonderful graphic design. Every gadget is layed out with its own full page graphic design treatment. I'm normally pretty tired of this whole 80's retro thing.... but this is the best of the best of it.
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For those with 30 to 38 years,
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This a book about nothing, really. Hundreds of eletronic pre- video-game-era games photographed sometimes with its original boxes, fully illustrated, colored and detailed. But what is it about? It's about when you had 8 to 16 years, wasting hours, days maybe of your childhood trying to get Mario upstairs where Donkey Kong lives. It's about making 999 points in each and every "game and watch" adventure. It's about dream with the lights and sounds of those games. Maybe it's a book about remembering old friends.
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