PC ENGINE: THE BOX ART COLLECTION, THE BOOK THAT CELEBRATES THE COVERS OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GAMES FOR THE NEC CONSOLE
If you love retro games and are fascinated by Japanese culture, you can't miss PC Engine: The Box Art Collection, the book that collects the covers of the most beautiful and interesting games for the NEC console, known as TurboGrafx-16 outside Japan.
PC Engine: The Box Art Collection is a 372-page work, published by the British publishing house Bitmap Books 1 , which celebrates the diversity, vibrancy, sophistication and personality of game covers for the PC Engine, a powerful and compact console which made gaming history in the 80s and 90s.
The book includes more than 300 covers, professionally photographed and accompanied by carefully reproduced screenshots, with a design-driven approach. Among the games featured in the book, there are some of the most famous and beloved titles from the PC Engine saga, such as Adventure Island, Darius Plus, Bomberman '93, YS I & II, Soldier Blade, PC Denjin (Air Zonk), Akumajō Dracula X: Chi no Rondo (Castlevania: Rondo of Blood), Devil Crash and Street Fighter II: Champion Edition.
PC Engine: The Box Art Collection is an indispensable book for longtime fans of NEC's console, retrogaming enthusiasts of all kinds, and anyone interested in the fascinating relationship that gaming, art, and popular culture share .
The book is available in two editions: a standard hardcover and a collectible one with a dust jacket illustrated by Wil Overton 3 , a famous artist who worked for magazines such as Super Play and Rare. Both editions also include a free PDF of the book.
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