Video Game Generations
Description
Video Game Generations! Digital experiences, whether on computers, tablets, smartphones or game consoles, have definitely entered our lives. Inexorably linked to technological progress, video games have developed at such a speed that they have left thousands of people overwhelmed by the complexity of their universe and the anglicisms inherent in their creation on the side of the road. A leisure activity of incomparable richness, video games are however much more than that .
Written by Régis Monterrin and divided into two parts, Générations jeux vidéo is a book suitable for beginners as well as specialists in controllers, touch screens or keyboard/mouse combinations. Through this book, GM Éditions wanted to demonstrate all the richness – historical and creative – of this modern art. In addition to the pioneers and events that shaped our world, there are the stories of men and women who made video games an essential platform for the years to come. And because nostalgia is never far away, the book traces, in a second part, several decades of games and machines. Consoles that have left their mark on players of yesterday – and today! Let's play!
The author
Editor/Author in the video game industry for about fifteen years, Régis Monterrin writes regularly for the Jeuxvideo.com website. He also contributes to numerous works on the History of video games, both old and new. A lover of paper, he also writes for Role Playing Game, a magazine specializing in Japanese and Western role-playing games.