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Video Games You Will Never Play: Black and White Paperback – August 30, 2016

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How many video games have you played during your life? Do you think games are a form of art that should be preserved? What if we told you that there are thousands of interesting games you'll never play, all of which could be lost forever? It’s true, there are many cancelled titles that are often lost to video game history. While video games may not be largely considered to be on par with paintings and statues, they are still art on their own, just like books, movies, and music, and like other works of art, video games have their own lost works. Games that were cancelled, never released, and often not even known by the general public. Unfortunately, there is no proper museum dedicated on saving them. Unseen64 is an online archive to preserve articles, screens and videos for cancelled, beta & unseen videogames. Every change and cut creates a different gaming experience: we would like to save some documents of this evolution for curiosity, historic and artistic preservation. Over the course of almost 500 pages, the 45+ writers and editors of this crowdsourced book hope to educate the gaming world on the history of video games as an ephemeral art form, by showcasing more than 200 lost games that could have been forgotten. Starting from early '90s PC titles, to 8-bit games for the NES and Sega Master System, and all the way through to the 7th generation of consoles with PS3, X360 and Wii, there are many unseen games that you will discover in this book. Also included are essays about the preservation of cancelled games, how to research for these unseen titles, and 20 interviews with museums and developers who worked on lost games. In this book there’s plenty of examples of what gaming history is losing every day. Hopefully, by reading this book, more gamers, developers, youtubers, gaming journalists and historians can look back at what could have been and as a result raise awareness on the preservation of lost games: to see the hidden stories that played a part in leading gaming culture to where it is now. This is the black / white version of the book, the content is identical to the full-color version, the only difference is the cover and the interior color. Before to read this book, please keep in mind that: - The lost games featured in this book are just a small sample of all the titles we will never play. It would be impossible to list them all in just one book. - We are a collective of gamers from all around the world. - This book is fully in English, but most articles were written by Italians and people from other non-English countries. Each article was proofread by English native speakers, but there could still be typos and random engrish. - This book was made with love and sleep deprivation.

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August 30, 2016
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7 x 1.09 x 10 inches
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1537643797
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978-1537643793
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1st edition (August 30, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1537643797
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1537643793
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.83 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.09 x 10 inches

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Hey! I'm Luca, I was born in Italy in 1983, the same year in which the legendary videogame crash reset the gaming industry in North America. Many years passed and I’m currently living with my girlfriend near Lake of Como (still in Italy), trying to live doing what i love the most: playing videogames, listening to spastic music, reading interesting books and manga, watching weird movies, scratching my hands while skateboarding, cultivating our home garden, helping people with their websites, drawing comics no one will ever read, researching about less known topics i like and sharing what i found with the world. With efforts, patience and downshifting I'm trying to find my way to live free from a traditional job, to spend my (short) time in this world following what really makes me happy. As wrote by Guy Debord in 1953 on a wall on the Rue de Seine: “Ne Travaillez Jamais”.
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Nom de Plume

Big, but a dry read

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2016

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I get its hard to find pictures lost to time and talk about games very few people got to play, but it wasn't as interesting to read as I hoped. Perhaps something happened in proof, but some of the delivery is more dry, wikipedia entry than motivated video game researcher. It does serve as a very decent compendium for some of the many cancelled games in history, with a robust selection across platforms.

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Daddy Kuma

Great Informative Product

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2018

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Excellent product. It features plenty of fascinating information regarding cancelled games for various platforms. I have only two major gripes with this product. The book has a long section about preserving games. While this may be interesting to some I personally don't have an interest in it. Also, I think more modern cancelled games like the Avengers game that was planned by THQ should be covered. Besides these two small gripes the book is excellent and is very informative.

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Diana Barnett

He loves trivia items and this was just perfect for him

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2017

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This was just what my grandson wanted. He loves trivia items and this was just perfect for him.

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2017

As a guy who makes videos on video game betas (Jango's Game Betas) with the help from Unseen64 and many other sources, Im glad to help out the ones who are talented enough to go though coding and notice the smallest of details that were changed or cut from games that have come out to games that were never released. Unseen64 is a great website to learn about the most interesting mysteries of games we love and would have loved if not cancelled. This book is great.

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2017

Daniel Fox is an especially talented contributor.

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A. Millinger

Sehr gutes Buch, aber...

Reviewed in Germany on April 9, 2020

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Das Thema interessiert mich sehr - Videospiele, die aus irgendwelchen Gründen nie erschienen sind, obwohl sie schon lange in Arbeit und zum Teil auch schon komplett fertig gestellt waren. Was sind die Geschichten dahinter? Eine kleine Auswahl aus den vermutlich zigtausenden Beispielen wird in diesem Buch mit ausführlichem Text und Bildmaterial vorgestellt. Dazu werden die verschiedenen Hardware-Plattformen vorgestellt und einige Interviews mit Entwicklern und Videospiel-Historikern gibt es auch.

Das Buch wurde auch sichtlich mit Begeisterung geschrieben. Es gibt aber so einige Sachen, die mich stören und wegen denen ich hier nur 3 1/2 Sterne (aufgerundet auf 4) geben will:

1) Mehr Korrekturlesen - viel mehr - hätte nicht geschadet.
2) Wenn man das Buch von vorne bis hinten durchlesen will, wie ich es gewöhnlich mache, stört doch, dass alle Interviews am Anfang stehen statt zur Auflockerung zwischen den Kapiteln. Nach über 100 Seiten wird dann endlich das erste Spiel besprochen.
3) So fällt auch auf, dass die größten Teile der Interviews aus den immer gleichen Fragen bestehen. Da wurde ein Standard-Katalog abgearbeitet, statt auf den Interviewpartner einzugehen. Nicht professionell.
4) Mein Hauptkritikpunkt: Es gibt keine Absätze oder Leerzeilen in den Beiträgen. Bis zu 6 Seiten pro Spiel, zwar mit Bildern, aber sonst als eine einzige "Wall of Text" ohne irgendwelche Gliederung. Sehr anstrengend zu lesen, zumal die Schrift auch recht klein ist. Klar, die Seitenzahl war begrenzt und so kann man mehr Text ins Buch quetschen, aber der Lesespaß leidet darunter.

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Daniel Wendorf

Großartiges Buch - mit kleinen Fehlern

Reviewed in Germany on November 14, 2016

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Happiger Preis? iwo! Für die gut 65 Euro bietet "Videogames You Will Never Play" in Vollfarbe einen sehr, sehr guten Überblick über allerlei Kuriositäten, die nie das Licht der Videospielwelt erblicken würden. Na, fast! Es fehlen - leider, leider - Amiga und C64, auch das Master System ist mit nur einem Titel vertreten. Kurios ist die Auswahl auch deshalb, weil einige Spiele wie "Ruff 'n Tumble/40 Winks" auf N64 fehlen - obwohl von diesem Titel sogar eine fast fertige Version existiert.

Vom Druck und der Aufmachung her ist dem Buch kaum etwas vorzuwerfen. Der Umschlag ist hübsch gestaltet, die Bilder in Farbe machen richtig etwas her. Woran es mangelt, ist die Sorgfalt im Detail. So wäre es schön gewesen, wenn die Titel nicht nur nach Konsolenplattform und -generation sortiert würden, sondern im Kapitelkopf auch den Beginn der Entwicklung und deren Abbruch mit einer Jahreszahl angeben. Zudem sind einige Umbrüche extrem unglücklich. Ein Kapitelkopf am Ende einer Seite, wo der Artikel doch erst auf dem nächsten Blatt beginnt, ist dem Lesefluss nicht zuträglich.

Kleine Details, an denen man sich stören könnte. Komplettiert wird der sehr gute Überblick durch Interviews mit Machern aus der Branche und einem Abriss der Seite unseen64.net, auf der die Autoren seit unzähligen Jahren Beta-Versionen und gecancelte Spiele zusammentragen. Eine klare Kaufempfehlung.

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Gabriele

Una perla che permette di scoprire i videogiochi mai pubblicati!

Reviewed in Italy on January 24, 2018

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Un volume importante, imponente per formato e "quantità", nonché un interessantissimo testo per fare luce su una parte meno nota del mondo videoludico, ovvero quella dei videogiochi mai pubblicati!
Un'occasione straordinaria per conoscere tutti quei titoli che non giocheremo mai...
Scritto e pubblicato dal team del sito Unseen64.

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Isatis Angel

Passionné et passionnant

Reviewed in France on February 18, 2017

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Un très bel ouvrage par des fans pour des fans de jeux vidéo. Si la structure est un peu trop condensé visuellement (l'auteur explique lui-même avoir dû gagner de la place pour l'imprimeur), on suit avec plaisir les histoires chaotiques des très nombreux jeux proposés. Le catalogue est très varié, en termes de types de jeux et de machines. J'apprécie le sérieux et l'amour communicatif pour les jeux perdus qui se dégagent du livre. Ces projets avortés ont parfois des histoires drôles, souvent tragiques ou regrettables, et éclairent d'un nouveau jour tout un pan de la machine vidéoludique dont on n'a pas forcément conscience en temps que joueur.
L'iconographie est limitée par contre (par manque de place), donc le site internet Unseen64 reste tout à fait complémentaire du livre (il contient plus de matériel vidéo et photographique). Je recommande toutefois la version couleurs malgré tout car on profite mieux des screenshots et artworks proposés.

Attention, très important, il faut avoir un bon niveau d'anglais pour profiter pleinement de l'ouvrage !

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Mr.R

Un livre par des fans pour des fans

Reviewed in France on December 30, 2016

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Livre tout en anglais. Pour moi cela ne me pose pas de soucis, car bilingue. Un livre par des fans pour des fans et cela se ressent dans les pages.
RAS de plus, mis à part que la version couleur est un plus pour les yeux :)

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