01/03/2023 at 11:30 a.m. by Karsten Scholz – The well-known journalist and publisher Winnie Forster has published the 5th edition of his book Game Consoles and Home Computers. An “exciting journey through 50 years of gaming hardware” awaits you on 288 pages.
Anyone who has been leafing through games magazines for a long time should know the name Winnie Forster only too well. The German journalist and author has been hitting the keys for the computer and video game industry since 1990. Among other things, he was senior editor at the PowerPlay magazine of the “Markt & Technik” publishing house and co-founder of the video games and the multi-format magazine Man!ac. As a freelance author, he writes and writes regularly for various publications, and since 2002 he has headed the specialist book publisher GAMEplan.
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50 years of gaming hardware in one book
A little more than 20 years ago, GAMEplan Verlag published the specialist book “Game Consoles and Home Computers” for the first time, in which Winnie Forster illustrated 30 years of game hardware. The fifth edition of the work came off the press last December. The work now depicts a whopping 50 years, on 288 pages and with 800 exclusive photos.
“The greatly expanded and updated new edition of the popular specialist book on video game hardware shows all consoles, handhelds and computers from America, Japan and Europe, presents classic software in authentic pixels, provides background information and historical facts. 550 dream devices, million sellers from Atari VCS to Commodore Amiga and SNES to PS5 and Steam Deck, but also gaffes and exotic variants presents game consoles and home computers in colored chapters and detailed appendices – for everyone who wants to play, collect and know their whole life.A journey through the gaming epochs, from the electromechanical Prehistoric times to the Ultra HD present and from there to the VR future!”
We have already spent a few enjoyable hours with the new edition of “Games Consoles and Home Computers” and can recommend the book to every games enthusiast. You can expect a nostalgic, lovingly illustrated journey to your gaming beginnings, but also all kinds of informative, understandably prepared insights into exotic hardware that you didn’t know anything about before. The journey through time costs 32.90 euros and can be ordered on the official GAMEplan website. Here you can find some reading samples.
