Sinclair ZX Spectrum: compendio visual

by Bitmap Books

Sinclair ZX Spectrum: compendio visual presenta, página a página, un despliegue de juegos clásicos en los que se retrata el inimitable estilo gráfico de Spectrum. De mano de tan icónicas imágenes, hallarás un botín de anécdotas y recuerdos de los artistas y desarrolladores que confeccionaron los juegos, con citas de los hermanos Stamper, Dave Perry, Bo Jangeborg, los gemelos Oliver, Matthew Smith, Dawn Drake, Andrew Hewson y muchos más.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum: compendio visual también incluye entrevistas con los artistas principales y perfiles de los mayores editores de videojuegos, además de un vistazo al mercado de clones de Rusia y Europa del este, junto con la escena “homebrew”, que aún hoy produce nuevos juegos de ZX Spectrum.

Genres: Nonfiction, Gaming

304 pages, Hardcover

Published November 1, 2024

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

In the early 80ies Sir Clive Sinclair created the legendary ZX Spectrum. A bare processor with 48K of memory it became the symbol of the 8bit era together with the Commodore 64 and the Amstrad CPC. Notoriously bad to use colour with due to its colour clash issues the Spectrum became the symbol of artistic ingenuity through limitations.
As it was mentioned in the book pixel art was not a style back then but an attempt to create the absolutely most realistic graphics with the limited means available.

[Binni Erlingsson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought this would be a book collecting Spectrum art but it was far more actually. Detailed interviews, features and interesting comments, along with the great art. It’s a hefty, meaty book that takes multiple hours to go through.

I for one loved every minute with it.

Note thay my softcover version fell apart while reading, but I want to celebrate great work like this so I’m planning to pick up the hardcover at some point. Will also check out more books in the series.

[Natxo Cruz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Competent i enèsim resum/revisió històrica d'una de les màquines icòniques dels 80 que dibuixa un somriure entre aquells que en vam tenir una. Molt ben editat i traduït i apte tant per a qui vol evocar records del passat i per a qui vol aprofundir una mica més en la temàtica.