A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME

I’m pleased to say that my first book, Curious Video Game Machines, is out now!

You can order it direct from the UK publisher right here, where there’s currently a hefty discount to celebrate the book’s launch. Alternatively, you can order the book through Amazon UK, WH Smith, Waterstones, Blackwell’s, Hive, and various other book stores.

If you’re in North America, you can order Curious Video Game Machines direct from the US publisher Casemate, and it’s also available through Amazon US and Barnes and Noble, among others.

It’s available as an eBook, too!

Curious Video Game Machines features deep dives on super rare and obscure consoles and computers such as the Casio Loopy, CUBO CD32, Daewoo Zemmix, Enterprise 64, RDI Halycon, Super Cassette Vision Lady’s, ActionMax, Interton VC 4000 and Galaksija, as well as slightly more familiar machines, such as the Virtuality VR systems of the early 1990s, early Atari VCS development kits and Namco’s beloved Prop Cycle arcade game. There’s even a chapter on holographic video games, like Sega’s Time Traveler, as well as the many bootleg versions of the Nintendo Famicom.

In short, there’s a lot of weird and wonderful stuff in there, and I think you will rather enjoy it. And if you want to find out more, then have a listen to me rambling on about Curious Video Game Machines on this episode of the Retro Asylum podcast.

You can follow me on Twitter for regular updates, and if you’re near York in the UK, it would be wonderful to see you at the Retro Gaming Quiz Night I’m hosting on 6th December to celebrate the launch of the book.

And if you do buy the book, please tell all your friends about it, and leave a review on Amazon if you can – it massively helps with discovery. If it sells well enough, I’m hoping I’ll get to write a sequel – there are plenty more curious video game machines out there to discover…

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