Retro Games: Profiling the best titles from the golden age of gaming

by Marty Allen

Discover over 40 of the best-loved video games from the 80s and 90s and relive those awesome moments from your childhood.



Discover over 40 of the best-loved video games from the 80s and 90s and relive those awesome moments from your childhood.

Packed with creativity and charm, classic video games provide endless fun—one press of the power button and you’re instantly in pixelated paradise. But what are the ultimate games from this hallowed chapter in gaming history? Were you a Nintendo die-hard and Mario loyalist or seduced by Sonic and SEGA? Maybe you obsessed over GoldenEye or perhaps Tekken 3 on the Playstation was more your scene? Retro Games celebrates some of the most influential shoot-em-ups, platformers, role-players, and more that ripped up the rule book for what we believed video games were capable of. It’s a must read for anyone who has fallen in love with this golden age of gaming. How many have you completed?

64 pages, Hardcover

Published November 13, 2018

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 1 out of 5]

I finished this book in about 15 minutes. The book is about retro video games and contains very very short entries (it's a very small book but has small pages too) that contain information about the year the game was released, the designers, as well as a very very brief description. The book did not sit well with me because it seems to have the most random of entries. For example, NO Final Fantasy games are chosen, including Final Fantasy 7 which was a pretty important title on the Playstation. I don't get why the author chose to focus on certain games over others, and why many systems were included but some were left out, and while other that were included only mentioned two or three games. It was almost as if the author had only X amount of pages to work with. This book just baffled me.