Arcade Classics Reloaded¡ All machine!

Enrique Segura Mayor returns to the load with Arcade Classics Reloaded. The exciting review of the history of recreational continues on this second volume of the Arcade Classics collection. The classics of our childhood, such as Spy Hunter, hang on or bomb Jack, come together in this book, along with the latest jewels that we enjoyed in recreational halls, such as The house of the dead 2 or crazy taxi.

Enrique's previous book, 1990-2000 The decade of the revolution in videogames, could not get hooked. The content, based mainly on interviews, contrasted with the idea that many expected a book with such a title. These interviews, most lacking interest, were not the appropriate format to cover such a remarkable stage. The videogames, authentic protagonists, were relegated by the experiences and personal projects of the interviewees.

Fortunately, this new delivery of Arcade Classics, takes up the usual style of the author. Segura, with the usual closeness and simplicity of him, he proposes another journey towards nostalgia and memory. The tour gathers a total of 50 mythical machines. From the first recreationals of history, to the powerful and lasting Naomi plate of Sega.

Arcade Classics Reloaded

This second volume also serves as a reminder to understand how we enjoyed at that time. The explosion of arcade culture in the 80s and 90 as a way of life. Recreational machines were for many of us the starting point, the origin of our passion for videogames. All those fortunate that we could live in the first person, we saw how recreational ones were evolving, making it more and more imposing, with larger and spectacular furniture. Finally, we also witness its extinction, provoked by the hardware improvement of domestic consoles.

Those wonderful years and the recreational, as we met them, they will never return. However, the book also shows associations and companies that perform great contributions and efforts to preserve this culture. Retro bytes Córdoba, Arcade Planet, Arcade Vintage, Arcade Game Murcia and the Arcade Temple are places of a must pilgrimage if you are a lover of recreational. Among these pages you can meet them, along with its founders and members.

This book also includes some interviews, on this occasion, in just measure. We find interesting topics, such as if it is comparable the experience of playing via emulation versus that of a recreational room. Capcom, Sega, Nintendo, Konami, Data East, Technos, SNK... Which company was the best of all times in recreational?

Arcade Classics Reloaded is a book that devours quickly. Recreational machines are described with MIMO, the curiosities and the original propaganda of each furniture manage to teleport to the time. With the style of him, redundant sometimes, Safe sign a new book that will not disappoint all those who spent the afternoons of his adolescence in recreation.

Those who are interested in acquiring the book, you can do it on the website of Dolmen Editorial, through this link.