Book Review - The Video Games Guide

The Video Games Guide, Matt Fox

Bought this book a while back from the Book Clearance Centre. It's actually a giant collection of reviews of some classic (and not so classic) video games from Pong to whatever you can get on the Playstation 3. Pity there weren't many images but it's a useful guide for ROM gamers.

The most useful bit of the book was the appendix which had some major game designers and a glossary of famous games from each year. There's also a useful list of 'generation' categorised consoles.

For my game, I will be particularly taking inspiration from Grand Theft Auto 2 (PS) and Legend of Zelda 3 (SNES) [which got four and five star ratings respectively in the book] in the top-down perspective and collection/exploration aspects of the game. The graphical element will be more akin to early SNES than anything due to the limitations of the game. I'll look to post some development screenshots.