Download or read book Game Console Hacking written by Joe Grand and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-11-12 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worldwide video game console market surpassed $10 billion in 2003. Current sales of new consoles is consolidated around 3 major companies and their proprietary platforms: Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. In addition, there is an enormous installed "retro gaming" base of Ataria and Sega console enthusiasts. This book, written by a team led by Joe Grand, author of "Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty", provides hard-core gamers with they keys to the kingdom: specific instructions on how to crack into their console and make it do things it was never designed to do. By definition, video console game players like to have fun. Most of them are addicted to the adrenaline rush associated with "winning", and even more so when the "winning" involves beating the system by discovering the multitude of "cheats" built into most video games. Now, they can have the ultimate adrenaline rush---actually messing around with the soul of the machine and configuring it to behave exactly as the command. This book builds on the motto of "Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty" and will appeal to the community of hardware geeks who associate unscrewing the back of their video console with para-jumping into the perfect storm. Providing a reliable, field-tested guide to hacking all of the most popular video gaming consoles Written by some of the most knowledgeable and recognizable names in the hardware hacking community Game Console Hacking is the first book on the market to show game enthusiasts (self described hardware geeks) how to disassemble, reconfigure, customize and re-purpose their Atari, Sega, Nintendo, Playstation and Xbox systems

Download or read book The Game Console 2 0 written by Evan Amos and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and expanded second edition of the bestselling The Game Console contains brand new content, with coverage of 50 more consoles, variants, and accessories in 50 added pages. The Game Console 2.0 is a gorgeous coffee table book for geeks and gamers that brings together highly detailed photos of more than 100 video game consoles and their electronic interiors spanning nearly five decades. Revised and updated since the first edition’s celebrated 2018 release, The Game Console 2.0 is an even bigger archival collection of vividly detailed photos of more than 100 video-game consoles. This ultimate archive of gaming history spans five decades and nine distinct generations, chronologically covering everything from market leaders to outright failures, and tracing the gaming industry’s rise, fall, and monumental resurgence. The book’s 2nd edition features more classic game consoles and computers, a section on retro gaming in the modern era, and dozens of new entries — including super-rare finds, such the Unisonic Champion 2711, and the latest ninth-generation consoles. You’ll find coverage of legendary systems like the Magnavox Odyssey, Atari 2600, NES, and the Commodore 64; systems from the ‘90s and 2000s; modern consoles like the Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5; and consoles you never knew existed. Get a unique peek at the hardware powering the world’s most iconic video-game systems with The Game Console 2.0 — the perfect gift for geeks of all stripes and every gamer’s must-have coffee-table book.

Download or read book Game Boy Modding written by Greg Farrell and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete beginner's guide to all aspects of modifying the classic Nintendo Game Boy. Game Boy Modding teaches you how to purchase, refurbish, mod, and customize Nintendo handheld consoles. The consoles are widely available and the customizations are affordable, requiring only limited tools and know-how. Retro consoles are seeing a resurgence of popularity worldwide, and king among these throwback devices is the Nintendo Game Boy, which sold over 100 million units in its lifetime and introduced gamers to Mario and Pokemon. These consoles emanate pixelated 8-bit retro charm, but lack the modern technological enhancements that we take for granted in 2020. You'll learn basic soldering and hardware modification techniques; how to change speakers, buttons, and screen lenses; how to fix dead speakers and sticky buttons; and how to personalize your Game Boy to your heart's content.

Download or read book Vintage Game Consoles written by Bill Loguidice and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vintage Game Consoles tells the story of the most influential videogame platforms of all time, including the Apple II, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, Sony PlayStation, and many more. It uncovers the details behind the consoles, computers, handhelds, and arcade machines that made videogames possible. Drawing on extensive research and the authors’ own lifelong experience with videogames, Vintage Game Consoles explores each system’s development, history, fan community, its most important games, and information for collectors and emulation enthusiasts. It also features hundreds of exclusive full-color screenshots and images that help bring each system’s unique story to life. Vintage Game Consoles is the ideal book for gamers, students, and professionals who want to know the story behind their favorite computers, handhelds, and consoles, without forgetting about why they play in the first place – the fun! Bill Loguidice is a critically acclaimed technology author who has worked on over a dozen books, including CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy’s Underdog Computer, written with Boisy G. Pitre. He’s also the co-founder and Managing Director for the popular Website, Armchair Arcade. A noted videogame and computer historian and subject matter expert, Bill personally owns and maintains well over 400 different systems from the 1970s to the present day, including a large volume of associated materials. Matt Barton is an associate professor of English at Saint Cloud State University in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where he lives with his wife Elizabeth. He’s the producer of the "Matt Chat," a weekly YouTube series featuring in-depth interviews with notable game developers. In addition to the original Vintage Games, which he co-authored with Bill, he’s author of Dungeons & Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games and Honoring the Code: Conversations with Great Game Designers.

Download or read book The Game Console written by Evan Amos and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A photographic history of video game consoles and the hardware inside them"--

Download or read book Game Boy written by Brady Games and published by Bradygames. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is a collection of the best maps, cheats, tricks, codes and strategies for Nintendo's hand-held console game, including: Pokmon Red, Pokmon Blue, Legend of Zelda DX, Pokmon Pinball, Pocket Bomberman, Conker's Pocket Tales, Super Mario Land 2, Super Mario Brothers DX, Donkey Kong Land 3 and more.

Download or read book Ultra Massive Video Game Console Guide Volume 1 Signature Edition written by Mark Bussler and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate collection of game systems in the universe! From Atari to Nintendo and PlayStation, it's here. Reviews, photographs, and collecting advice for more than 20 retro and modern game systems.Celebrate the art and character of video game console design with this ultra massive collection of reviews, photographs and recommended games for game consoles past and present. The Ultra Massive Video Game Console Guide Volume 1 includes the following:- SEGA GENESIS- SEGA MEGA DRIVE- SEGA GENESIS NOMAD- ATARI 2600- NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM- VECTREX- SUPER NINTENDO- SUPER FAMICOM- NEO-GEO CD- PLAYSTATION 2- NINTENDO GAME BOY- MAGNAVOX ODYSSEY 2- NINTENDO FAMICOM- FAMICOM DISK SYSTEM- FAMICLONES- MATTEL INTELLIVISION- ARCADIA 2001- NEO-GEO POCKET COLOR- TEXAS INSTRUMENTS TI-99/4A- SEGA 32X- SEGA CDWritten and photographed by Mark Bussler, producer of Classic Game Room, the longest running Internet video game review show. Mark has collected more than 100 game systems and thousands of games since he started playing Atari 2600 in 1980.Contained within these pages is a fun, stylish look at game systems that aren't normally covered like the Famicom Disk System, Magnavox Odyssey 2 and Neo-Geo CD. Mark suggests recommended games to collect for each game console that deliver the best bang for the buck. For example, when collecting for Sega Genesis start out with The Revenge of Shinobi, Altered Beast, Super Monaco GP and Sonic the Hedgehog. For Atari 2600 you should always begin your library with Yars' Revenge, Berzerk, Super Breakout and Combat.Filmed in the studio and outside, Mark photographed videogame consoles in environments where we don't normally see them so that we may appreciate their styling and industrial design. This special Signature Edition is signed by the writer.

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Download or read book The Game Boy and Game Boy Color written by Christopher M. Shaw and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of children and adults alike have spent countless hours playing the Game Boy - take a closer look into the development, technology, and history of Nintendo's Game Boy and Game Boy Color.

Download or read book Who Are You written by Alex Custodio and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Game Boy Advance platform as computational system and cultural artifact, from its 2001 release through hacks, mods, emulations, homebrew afterlives. In 2002, Nintendo of America launched an international marketing campaign for the Game Boy Advance that revolved around the slogan “Who Are You?”—asking potential buyers which Nintendo character, game, or even device they identified with and attempting to sell a new product by exploiting players' nostalgic connections to earlier ones. Today, nearly two decades after its release, and despite the development of newer and more powerful systems, Nintendo's Game Boy Advance lives on, through a community that continues to hack, modify, emulate, make, break, remake, redesign, trade, use, love, and play with the platform. In this book Alex Custodio traces the network of hardware and software afterlives of the Game Boy Advance platform. Each chapter considers a component of this network—hardware, software, peripheral, or practice—that illuminates the platform's unique features as a computational system and a cultural artifact. Examining the evolution of the design and architecture of Nintendo's handhelds and home consoles, and the constraints imposed on developers and players, for example, Custodio finds that Nintendo essentially embeds nostalgia into its hardware. She explores Nintendo's expansion of the platform through interoperability; physical and affective engagement with the Game Boy Advance; portability, private space, and social interaction; the platformization of nostalgia; fan-generated content including homebrew, hacking, and hardware modding; and e-waste—the final afterlife of consumer electronics. Although the Game Boy Advance is neither the most powerful nor the most popular of Nintendo's handhelds, Custodio argues, it is the platform that most fundamentally embodies Nintendo's reliance on the aesthetics and materiality of nostalgia.

Download or read book Secrets of Video Game Consoles written by Michael Hart and published by White Owl. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know the Nintendo Wii had a medical condition named after it? Or that the Sega Saturn almost had the Nintendo 64's graphics chip? Did you realize the Atari Jaguar contained five different processors? Are you aware that a fake website about beekeeping was used to promote an Xbox game? Learn about all of this and more in this unique trivia book about the history of video game consoles that gives you the complete stories in detail! These facts cover a wide range of subjects, such as which console introduced certain technology and features, esoteric hardware oddities, marketing fails and successes, stories behind key games, how certain indispensable people shaped the whole industry, development history, court cases, peculiar events, weird relationships between companies and technical explanations. Plenty of these would be obscure facts that you may not know, but even if you are familiar with them, do you know the full story? 31 video game consoles stretching from 1972 to 2017 are covered, containing more than 235 in-depth facts, numerous other pieces of trivia and over 350 images to create a single package unlike any other that gamers of all ages will find interesting! If you want to fill your head with plenty of knowledge about your favorite video game consoles to amaze your friends with, then this book is for you!

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Download or read book Ultra Massive Video Game Console Guide Volume 2 Signature Edition written by Mark Bussler and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultra Massive Volume 2 continues the never-ending saga of celebrating the failed, forgotten and groundbreaking video game consoles from the past, present, and future.This book includes collecting advice, photographs, and reviews of more than 20 game systems from across the ages including:- ATARI 5200- ATARI 7800 PROSYSTEM- COLECOVISION- MAGNAVOX ODYSSEY- MATTEL HYPERSCAN- MICROSOFT XBOX- MSX COMPUTER- NEC PC-ENGINE- NINTENDO 64- NINTENDO GAME BOY ADVANCE- NINTENDO GAMECUBE- SEGA DREAMCAST- SEGA GAME GEAR- SEGA MASTER SYSTEM- SEGA SG-1000- SEGA MARK III- SNK HYPER NEO-GEO 64- SONY PLAYSTATION- SONY PSP- TIGER GAME.COM- TIGER R-ZONEWritten and photographed by Mark Bussler, producer of Classic Game Room, the longest running Internet video game review show. Mark has collected more than 100 game systems and thousands of games since he started playing Atari 2600 in 1980.Contained within these pages is a fun, stylish look at game systems that were killed off too soon like the Sega Dreamcast and Atari 7800. Enjoy a look at failed technology like the Tiger R-Zone and Mattel Hyperscan. Underrated gems like the Sega Master System, Hyper Neo-Geo 64, and Nintendo GameCube are covered with stunning imagery and recommended games. The mega-popular Sony PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance and Microsoft Xbox are showcased here.Mark suggests recommended games to collect for each game console that delivers the best bang for the buck. For example, when collecting for Sega Dreamcast start out with Chu Chu Rocket, Crazy Taxi and Hydro Thunder; games that are insanely fun and extremely easy to collect.If you love video games, Pong, and spaceships, you'll love the Ultra Massive series and may find yourself inspired to begin collecting for something new! In addition to playing Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One you may find yourself immersed in the world of Sega Mark III and Magnavox Odyssey!The special Signature Edition is signed by the author.

Download or read book The Video Games Textbook written by Brian J. Wardyga and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Video Games Textbook takes the history of video games to the next level. Coverage includes every major video game console, handheld system, and game-changing personal computer, as well as a look at the business, technology, and people behind the games. Chapters feature objectives and key terms, illustrative timelines, color images, and graphs in addition to the technical specifications and key titles for each platform. Every chapter is a journey into a different segment of gaming, where readers emerge with a clear picture of how video games evolved, why the platforms succeeded or failed, and the impact they had on the industry and culture. Written to capture the attention and interest of students from around the world, this newly revised Second Edition also serves as a go-to handbook for any video game enthusiast. This edition features new content in every chapter, including color timelines, sections on color theory and lighting, the NEC PC-98 series, MSX series, Amstrad CPC, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Milton Bradley Microvision, Nintendo Game & Watch, gender issues, PEGI and CERO rating systems, and new Pro Files and quiz questions, plus expanded coverage on PC and mobile gaming, virtual reality, Valve Steam Deck, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5. Key Features Explores the history, business, and technology of video games, including social, political, and economic motivations Facilitates learning with clear objectives, key terms, illustrative timelines, color images, tables, and graphs Highlights the technical specifications and key titles of all major game consoles, handhelds, personal computers, and mobile platforms Reinforces material with market summaries and reviews of breakthroughs and trends, as well as end-of-chapter activities and quizzes

Download or read book Curious Video Game Machines written by Lewis Packwood and published by White Owl. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of video games is often told as the successive rise of computers and consoles from famous names like Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, Sega, Sony and Microsoft. But beyond this familiar tale, there’s a whole world of weird and wonderful gaming machines that seldom get talked about. Curious Video Game Machines reveals the fascinating stories behind a bevy of rare and unusual consoles, computers and coin-ops – like Kimtanktics, a 1970s wargame computer made out of calculator parts, or the suite of Korea-exclusive consoles made by car manufacturer Daewoo. Then there’s the Casio Loopy, a 1990s console that doubled up as a sticker printer, the RDI Halcyon, a 1985 LaserDisc-based machine that could recognize your voice, and the Interton VC 4000, a German console made by a hearing-aid company, as well as a range of bizarre arcade machines, from early attempts at virtual reality to pedal-powered flying contraptions. There are tales of missed opportunities, like the astonishingly powerful Enterprise 64 computer, which got caught in development hell and arrived too late to make an impact on the British microcomputer market. And there are tales of little-known triumphs, like the Galaksija DIY computer kit that introduced a whole generation of Yugoslavians to computing before the country became engulfed by war. Featuring exclusive interviews with creators, developers and collectors, Curious Video Game Machines finally shines a light on the forgotten corners of video-game history.

Download or read book The Games Machines written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: