Video games, from the first to the "next generation"
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Régis Monterrin publishes the book “Générations jeux vidéo” which traces the history of video games.
Credits: GM éditions
By: Jean-François Cadet Follow
50 min
Régis Monterrin looks back on the history of video games.
From the first pixels of Pac-Man to the planetary success of new generation consoles.
A very complete and entertaining encyclopedia on the history of the first cultural industry in the world.
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It is an industry which weighs more than a hundred billion dollars, and which is one of the big winners of the health crisis.
Boosted by successive confinements, video games are now part of the lives of millions of adults and children around the world, just like music, television and cinema.
Like them, it has really evolved from its emergence in the late 1950s to our time, where we dream of new virtual developments.
This is what
Régis Monterrin
tells us
,
in the book just published by this retro-gaming specialist, who shares his passion in several specialized media.
A book intended for the general public, which tells us the story of video games, "from Atari to Microsoft and from Pac-Man to Lara Croft".
“Générations video games” by Régis Monterrin has been published by GM Éditions.
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