DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THE ORIGIN OF VIDEO GAMES AND THEIR EXPLOSIVE POPULARIZATION THROUGH THE DECADES OF THE 70'S AND 80'S?

In this compilation of 2 books in 1 of the collection The history of video games through the most interesting anecdotes, curiosities and facts you will enjoy and learn the highlights of the early years of video games, from its origin to 1989.

Virtual games were created in the 1950s, but it was in the 1970s when their commercial power was discovered with the first arcade machines such as Galaxy Game or Computer Space, although it would be the success of Atari's Pong that finally launched the industry.

Subsequently, games like Space Invaders, Galaxian, Asteroids or Pac-Man took arcades to their first golden age while first and second generation consoles began to spread video games in homes, especially through the Atari 2600... until the arrival of the video game crisis in 1983.

Nintendo's 8-bit console relaunched and massified the market through a glorious catalog (Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Mega Man, Castlevania, Punch-Out!!!) while arcade machines continued their success, with computers threatening with their first hit titles.

In this book you will discover:

- The first video game, programmed even before the existence of computers.

- The influence of World War II on the development of video games.

- The first candidates for the first video game in history and why they didn't become so.

- The first female video game designer

- How the first arcade machine and the beginning of the video game industry originated

- The relationship between the Nazi holocaust and the appearance of the first console

- The most controversial games of the arcades

- The first successes of glorious companies like Sega, Taito or Namco

- Racial segregation and the invention of game cartridges

- The origin of the Pac-Man idea and its explosive success in arcades

- The first color video games and their impact on the industry

- The first portable video game systems and their variable reception

- The rebellion of developers against video game console companies

- The first appearance of Super Mario in virtual games, before his own saga

- Beyond fun: games for the army and psychological testing

- The explosion of cooperative games: Joust, Bubble Bobble, Contra, Double Dragon...

- The end of Atari in the video game console environment

- The first relationship of video games with Walt Disney

- The video game crisis of 1983 and its subsequent recovery.

- The beginning of the fight between Nintendo and Sega through the third and fourth generation consoles...

- The numerical mess in the first releases of Super Mario Bros.

- The explosive fame of a Tetris whose author was slow to see the first profits

- The golden age of Namco and the emergence of legendary companies such as Konami and Capcom.

- The daring universe of fantasy with The Legend of Zelda, Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.

- The beginning of the success of fighting games: Double Dragon, Final Fight, Punch-Out!!, Street Fighter...

- The first successes on computers and the threat of a new system for consoles and arcades.

All this and much more in a selection of eye-catching and interesting facts to enjoy learning about the early years of video games!