Retro Game Programming: Unleashed for the Masses

By Earl John Carey

There are an estimated 500,000 retro computer and game enthusiasts who are absolutely fanatical about retro game machines. This number consists of four main groups: hardcore hackers, enthusiasts,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592009069
• ISBN13: 9781592009060
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Course Technology PTR
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

I understand what the guy was trying to do and I like it.

I understand what the guy was trying to do and I like it. I have tried learning this stuff on my own. I have tried scouring the Internet to find examples of how to program these machines and you know what. I still cannot do it. I am almost through the book and already I have a lot more confidence than I had before about my ability to program games. This book is helping me to understand the complete picture of what it takes to build my own games. I do not know if I am going to become a professional game programmer or not. What I do know is that I am having fun with this book and I consider it to be money well spent.

for nostalgia?

One ostensible motivation for programming using this book is to train yourself on games that are much simpler than the current bestsellers. Fair enough. But somehow one might get the feeling that the above is just the "respectable" reason. Perhaps a more realistic one is an appeal to the nostalgia of a reader that misspent his or her (mostly his) youth in those dim, crowded arcades of the 70s and 80s. Now, he might have the time to try his hand at something more creative, but which also harkens back to his vanished past. Some of you may thrill to coding in 8 and 16 bit assembler. Takes all kinds.