Reviews

This book... wow! I (almost) regretted clicking buy (as it was a tad expensive)... until it arrived. All my doubts vanished! It is of the highest quality, and really really big! OVer 400 pages of full color (Atari spelling of 'Color' intentional - us brits usually spell 'Colour' with an extra U!). It really is a fantastic book. If you had an Atari 400, 800, XL or XE and you loved the games... you need this book on your coffee table!

This book is something special. As a big fan of "everything retro-gaming" related - I've backed this project on Kickstarter. And to be honest, I didn't expect anything special from it. Though it would be another "Some great pictures from some old games, you've probably heard about earlier and a bunch of descriptive text" type of encyclopedia, but I was terribly wrong. Unofficial Atari: a Visual History is a glorious example of how you do a proper retro-gaming book: the quality is absolute, the topics covered (history, interviews, reviews, etc.) are made with passion. The illustrations (game screenshots, cover arts, photos) are brilliant. I expected the book to be two times thinner, but this big boy really delivers you with package of nostalgia on Atari era of gaming. Great stuff over here.

This is an amazing book, I maybe biased here but watching Darren go through the ups and downs of creating this book was something I will not forget but to actually have one in my possession after that long hard slog, I have to say, wow what a fantastic book it really is. Huge respect to all those that helped get this done. Thumbs up Darren.