Title: Classic Home Video Games, 1985-1988
Subtitle: A Complete Reference Guide
First published: 2009
Description: This is a review reference guide to three videogame systems, released from 1985-1988, and tries to describe each game that was commercially released for that system. Despite it's title it doesn't only cover games released between those years, it reviews the systems that were released between those years, and the games that were released for it in the United States, some games for these systems were released after the dates in the books title, such as "Wario's Woods" released in 1994 for the NES. Each entry tells the games title, the publisher, and developer, the type of game it is, the number of players that can use it, and the year it was released. The review tells the story of each game, the games objectives, and what is usually the games best and weakest points. There are black and white photographs of the game systems, and occasional pictures of the box art, cartridges, and instruction booklets. This is the second volume of the Brett Weiss' "Classic Home Video Games" series, it contains one section from the pervious first volume "1972-1984". Pages 7-26 reprint the first volumes 'Atari 7800', section with the exception of the games "Klax", and "Sentinel", being removed from this book, and the 7800's games "F-18 Hornet", and "Fatal Run", being switched around. There are the following number of entries for each system; Atari 7800 59, NES 768 (including games for the "Aladdin Deck Enhancer"), SMS 114.
Subjects: Video games, Videogames, Games, Strategy, Puzzles, Passtimes, Hobbies, Nintendo Entertainment System, Atari 7800, Sega Master System, SMS, NES, History, Jeux vidéo, Histoire, Electronic games
Time periods: 1985-1988
LC classification: GV1469.3 .W472 2009