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Bitmap Books
The Game Boy Advance quickly established a stunning software, with games like Fire Emblem, The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap, Advance Wars and Final Fantasy Tactics. All those releases and…
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Bitmap Books is incredibly proud to present THE KING OF FIGHTERS: The Ultimate History.
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Enter a world of nostalgic bullet hell with Run 'n' Gun: A History of On-Foot Shooters, written by award-winning video game journalist and comic book author Dave Cook.
The Secret History of Mac Gaming draws on a combination of archive material and around 80 interviews with key figures from the era to tell the story of those communities…
The Games That Weren’t provides an illustrated snapshot of unreleased games dating from 1975 to 2015. is Bitmap Books’ It includes a wide range of titles from the Atari 2600…
Painstakingly researched and written - A Tale of Two Halves stays keenly on the ball as it shares the rich and influential history of video game football - or 'soccer'…
A Gremlin In The Works by Mark Hardisty features interviews and anecdotes from all of Gremlin’s key members, including Chris Kerry, Ben Daglish and Greg Holmes, along with stalwarts of…
PC Engine: The Box Art Collection celebrates the diversity, vibrancy, sophistication, and personality seen across the covers of the best and most interesting Japanese releases for NEC's undersized powerhouse.
Bitmap Books is proud to present Super Famicom: The Box Art Collection - a compilation of Japanese game packaging, professionally shot and presented as a glorious hardback edition. The book…
NEOGEO: a visual history is also a collaboration with some of the world’s most knowledgable and prolific NEOGEO collector’s. They have worked on the content alongside Bitmap Books to ensure…
Relive your mis-spent youth with artwork from dozens of coin-ops including Asteroids, Battlezone, Street Fighter II, Out Run, Moon Patrol, Q*Bert, Bubble Bobble and many more. Each marquee is faithfully…
Invented by Sir Clive Sinclair, the successor to the ZX80 and ZX81 home computers would come to de ne an age of video gaming, with a range of games as…
Metal Slug: The Ultimate History is the first officially-licenced book to document the lineage of one of gaming’s most beloved franchises.
A Tale of Two Halves: The History Of Football Video Games stays keenly on the ball as it shares the rich and influential history of video game football - or…
Get ready for the fight of your life in Go Straight: The Ultimate Guide to Side-Scrolling Beat-‘Em-Ups.
PC Engine: The Box Art Collection celebrates the diversity, vibrancy, sophistication, and personality seen across the covers of the best and most interesting Japanese releases for NEC's undersized powerhouse of…
Spread over 684 pages, The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games (Expanded Edition) reviews over 450 games from 1975 to 2019.
N64: a visual compendium tells the fascinating story of a console that changed the gaming world. Inside its pages you'll find a rich written history of a machine that marked…
With its cutting edge graphics and extensive catalogue of iconic games, the NES/Famicom played a huge part in the history of videogaming. Over the course of its 20-year lifespan the…
Created in collaboration with author Kurt Kalata, A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games is an ambitious project that aims to cover the entire history of Japanese role-playing games from 1982…
From Ants to Zombies is a showcase for the remarkable range horror gaming has achieved, across six decades, from the 1970s to the 2020s, and over 70 hardware platforms, from…
The Art Of The Box features 26 biographies of those artists who, at some point in their careers, found themselves illustrating video game packaging
Atari 2600/7800: a visual compendium aims to showcase the very best pixel art, cover art and product design on each system.
Micro but Many: an unofficial Micro Machines collection features over 500 beautifully photographed Micro Machines - the must-have miniature cars of our misspent youth. This book is a rare collection…
