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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.

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.

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.