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Service Games: The Rise and Fall of SEGA (Blog post)

Service Games: The Rise and Fall of SEGA (Enhanced Edition) is a book on the history of SEGA as a console manufacturer. After a brief introduction telling the birth of the company, this thick 480 pages book details the story of all its home consoles: SG-1000, Master System, Mega Drive / Genesis with its Sega CD and Sega 32X addons, Saturn and the Dreamcast.    While the beginnings of SEGA and its first two consoles are explained rather quickly over 30 pages, the main part of the bo [...]

Keywords : history of videogames, sega, genesis, sega cd, sega 32x, saturn, dreamcast

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Service Games: The Rise and Fall of SEGA (Enhanced Edition) (Book reference)

A book on the history of SEGA as a console manufacturer. After a brief introduction telling the birth of the company, this thick 480 pages book details the story of all its home consoles: SG-1000, Master System, Mega Drive / Genesis with its Sega CD and Sega 32X addons, Saturn and the Dreamcast. While the beginnings of SEGA and its first two consoles are explained rather quickly over 30 pages, the main part of the book details with high precision the story of its most famous consoles. About 150 [...]

Keywords : history, sega, master system, genesis, sega cd, sega 32x, saturn, dreamcast

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Joypads ! : Le design des manettes (Book reference)

As the title implies, this book tackles the history of videogames through a quite unique viewpoint: gamepads. This book analyses each and every gamepad released for a home console, from the Atari 2600 controllers to Xbox 360 ones. It is divided in five parts. The first one goes through the early beginnings of game controllers : it analyses the ones created for Spacewar! and Tennis for Two, among others. The second part is dedicated to the evolution of controllers handling, and details how the va [...]

Keywords : joypads, history, gamepads, game design

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