Title: Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book Of World Records; Second Edition, Arcade Volume
Description: This is a world records guide/reference book to various arcade games. About 2/3 of the book are related to Video Games, both original, and emulator versions of those games. The second 1/3 focuses on Pinball games. There is also a short section about "Novelty" arcade games. Scattered through the book are biographies of various record holders, each profile has a photograph of the person, and a blank place under their image, to receive a autograph, and a allow the date of the autograph to be recorded. There are also articles about various video game events, both these and the biography sections are listed as "Feature" in the books 'contents' pages. Three editions of this book were released. The "first edition" ISBN: 1887472258, was released in 1998, is the first book of this series, featured arcade, computer, and console video games, along with a shorter section on Pinball games. This "Second Edition" released in 2007, was originally meant to be part of a 3 volume set, with "Arcade Games" being the first of the three volumes. The planned second and third volumes were to focus on "Console Gaming", and "PC Gaming". However these do not seem to have been published. The "Third Edition" released in 2009, the final book released by Twin Galaxies, was also planned to be a 3 volume set. Both the "Second", and "Third" editions of the guide were available in Paperback, Hardcover, and eBook versions. The word "Edition" in the title, refers to the number in the series, and not the actual "versions"/editions of that each book. In 2008 the "Guinness World Records" released their "Gamer's Edition", in collaboration with Twin Galaxies from 2008-2013. The "Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition" has been released every since its first release.
Subjects: Curiosities & Wonders, Reference, Video & Electronic - General, Games / Reference, Games : Video & Electronic - General, Reference : Curiosities & Wonders, Games / Gamebooks, Zack Hample, Tai Kuang Neng, Eric Ginner, Rick Fothergill, Greg Mott, Donn Nauert, Mark Ahlers, Eric Ahlers, Ahlers Brothers, Mark Robichek, Gary Whelan, Anna Cram, David Palmer, Nick Ortakales, Yasuhiro Oda, Steve Harris, Tony Temple, April P. Simmonds, Rob Gerhardt, Todd Rogers, Pat Laffaye, Martin Bedard, Walter Day, Jonathan Koolpe, Greg Sakundiak, David Cruz, Jason Cram, Brandon Erickson, Cameron Feltner, Steve Sobe, Chris Eversole, Dean Liakakos, Graig Kinzler, Philip Britt, Mike Sullivan, David Dunn, Nick Hutt, Chris Emery, Gary Hatt, Michael Bangs, Jeff Peters, Steve Sanders, Jack Gale, Paul Dean, Wayne Folse, Takeo Ueki, James Vollandt, Leah Banks, Dennis Blechner, Sascha Blechner, Brian Kuh, Chris Ayra, Tim McVey, Fred Pastore, David Nelson, Ken Sweet, Perry Rodgers, Gary Vincent, William Carlton, John Zabel, Rodney Day, Darren Harris, Mr. Scott Safran, Derek Litton, Kelly Tharp, Christian Cram, David Demers, Jason Wilson, Dwayne Richard, J.C. Padilla, Greg Erway, Shawn Cram, Michael Sao Pedro, Robert Griffin, Neil Chapman, Jason Alexander, Jason Gilleece, Greg Bond, David Lowe, Steve Wiebe, Tom Asaki, Donald Hayes, Abdner Ashman, Jennifer Moore, Brien King, Mr. Kelly R. Flewin, Cristiano Assumpcao, Danny Rodriguez, Nelson Santa Maria, Bryan Wagner, Jason DeHeras, Kent Farries, Chris Steele, Larzrick Latiker, Tim Balderramos, Ben Gold, Joel Hedge, Mark Alpiger, Todd Walker, Terence O'Neill, Andrew Peter, Sebastien Giraud, Martin Rioux, Rodrigo Lopes, Ryan Sullivan, Tommi Tiihonen, George Strain, Valter Treib, Didier Senechal, Rudy J. Ferretti, Lyman Sheats, Bowen Kerins, Steve Epstein, Rick Stetta, Paul Madison, Kevin Martin, Jim Belsito, Neil Shatz, Trent Augenstein, Gary Stern, David Hegge, Donavan Stepp, Keith Elwin, Zach Sharpe, Josh Sharpe, Dan Wilson, Martin Pfeiffer, Franck Bona, John Miller, Glenn Wilson, Keith Johnson