Check out this old videogames book I found!!!

[Subzero]

You'll like this...

I was emptying out the bookshelves getting ready to re-decorate, and I came across this book from 1982. Its called simply 'COMPUTER AND VIDEO GAMES' and was published by Childrens Britannica Electronics. I would have only been 11 or 12 when I got this book

I've scanned a few pages in for you to see:

Front Cover:


Inside Astro Wars:


And How Arcade Games Work:


Theres lotsa good old retro stuff in this book, and like most older books, only some of it is in colour

[Steve B]

excellent !
i am sure i have some old books like this some place .. i must have a look for them.

[Infamous]

Omg! I used to have that book aswell, which i um... "borrowed" from the school library indefinitely, ive still got around here somewere a learn to program your bbc type in manual somewere which was just funny, seeing as i didnt have a bbc but i had a spectrum, but it was a clever book in that it did the main programs in the bbc langauge and then at the bottom told you the different commands in spectrum/amstrad etc coding so you worked it out yourself.

i'll see if i can dig it up and scan it in here.

[Kenz]

Hehe, I've got a similar book called "The Beginners Computer Handbook" which was published by Usborne. That had black and white + colour pages too. I loved the funky paintings of "popular" computers (like the blue Speccy!) and the little pictures of robots dotted around the pages. Great memories! I'll have to scan in a few pages from that one for ya! It also had games programs at the end suitable for various micros (hey, I'm even using the old terminology now!) which required you to alter some of the lines of basic to suit your micr ... er, computer!

[Dumper]

Bloody hell, that brings back memories. I used to own a few of those machines, me and a mate used to spend ages playing the football game.

[Subzero]

I had a football game called 'JIMMY' seen it on ebay a couple of times too...

[Tonka]

'Galaxy Invader 1000' and Bandai's 'GO Wrestling' (lcd), were my first ever handheld video games. I got them for Christmas the same year, and played them both until my fingers bled!

[Analog-X64]

I have a Game & Watch somewhere... for Mr.Gamewatch the mascott used in many games.

The Premise of the game was robbing a bank and avoiding the police.

I have searched for an image but cant find one. One of these days I'll see if I can get it back into working condition.

[Subzero]

I have a Game & Watch somewhere... for Mr.Gamewatch the mascott used in many games.

The Premise of the game was robbing a bank and avoiding the police.

I have searched for an image but cant find one. One of these days I'll see if I can get it back into working condition.

An early beta of grand theft auto then

[FFRenzy]

I have a Game & Watch somewhere... for Mr.Gamewatch the mascott used in many games.

The Premise of the game was robbing a bank and avoiding the police.

I have searched for an image but cant find one. One of these days I'll see if I can get it back into working condition.

Safebuster, maybe ?