The Comic Book Story of Video Games: The Incredible History of the Electronic Gaming Revolution

A whole, illustrated historical past of video games–highlighting the machines, video games, and individuals who have made gaming a worldwide, billion-dollar business/artform–told in a graphic novel format.

Creator Jonathan Hennessey and illustrator Jack McGowan current the primary full-color, chronological origin story for this vastly profitable, omnipresent artform and enterprise. Hennessey offers readers with the whole lot they should learn about video games–from their early beginnings throughout World Battle II to the emergence of arcade video games within the Seventies to the rise of Nintendo to as we speak’s app-based video games like Indignant Birds and Pokemon Go. Hennessey and McGowan additionally analyze the evolution of gaming as an artform and its influence on society. Every chapter options spotlights on main gamers within the improvement of video games and gaming that incorporates the whole lot that players and non-gamers alike want to know and recognize this unimaginable phenomenon.