In The Comic Book Story of Video Games, author Jonathan Hennessey and artist Jack McGowan reverse engineer the fascinating and often off-the-wall true history of video games — from their improbable origins among occultist scientist monkeying with glass tubes in the late 1800s to the AAA blockbusters of today whose graphics and gameplay blow our minds and whose DLC clog our bandwidth.
As in no other book, the graphic novel format whisks readers to the times and places where it came together... And sets us face to face with the people who made it all happen: television tinkerers, striving Japanese businessmen, steel-jawed Cold War military men, provocateurs with Ph.D.s., and modders up all night scripting their latest overhaul on a heart-pounding sugar rush.
Too many gamers don't know their own story. And this is a story about them. The Comic Book Story of Video Games is the patch we have all been waiting for to reconnect gaming's past with its present.
As in no other book, the graphic novel format whisks readers to the times and places where it came together... And sets us face to face with the people who made it all happen: television tinkerers, striving Japanese businessmen, steel-jawed Cold War military men, provocateurs with Ph.D.s., and modders up all night scripting their latest overhaul on a heart-pounding sugar rush.
Too many gamers don't know their own story. And this is a story about them. The Comic Book Story of Video Games is the patch we have all been waiting for to reconnect gaming's past with its present.