Sinclair ZX Spectrum: a visual compendium | Retro Gaming Book by Bitmap Books

The entire Bitmap Books visual compendium range is worth picking up if you are a Retro Gaming fan - the content is visually excellent and the written content is engaging and fun to work through. Even experts stand to learn something new from a read. This ZX Spectrum focussed book (closely followed by the Amiga) book is my favourite in the series so far. The nostalgia is real - and spotting titles I played as a kid but couldn't remember by name just based on the screen shots was really exciting!

Great little tablet. It does everything my wife wants and more. Bought at a very good price.

This book is absolutely gorgeous. Bitmap books is becoming well known for producing great-quality highly enjoyable retro gaming books. With their current kickstarter campaign for the C64, they're steadily creating a line of wonderful coffee-table books. Now, I'm hoping they'll make some retro-themed coffee tables for me to put them on :) Every page is eye-poppingly vibrant. No stolid loading-screens or banks and banks of stodgy text. The imagery is interspersed wonderfully with the text, and the text is both enjoyable to read, and nostalgia-inducing to the max. The market is getting quite saturated of ZX Spectrum game books, but I'm very glad I got this one. I just wish it covered more of the games I used to love!

Great book. The speccy was THE games machine in the 80s. Great nostalgia

Nice book

Ah the nostalgia is strong with this one. This is the paperback version which is perfectly fine. I have uses scotch tape on the corners to protect but man....this takes me way back to my Spectrum days. A quality book, great details and the graphics just leave me in a daze :) If you owned a Spectrum, you need this in your library :)

The book is fantastic - high quality, interesting articles and game comments. I highly recommend the book but will be buying direct from Bitmap Books in the future: The packing by Amazon, not so good and resulted in dented corners of the book. I brought the SNES visual compendium direct from Bitmap Books and their packing is amazing - The best I have seen for a book.

Bitmap Books do a brilliant job of reflecting on what made the classics so good.

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Estupendo producto. Recomendado.

Godibilissime interviste ai molti che hanno in qualche modo partecipato alla creazione dei tanti giochi per zx spectrum negli anni del suo successo. É in lingua inglese come inglesi sono la maggior parte degli intervistati. Il volume é ricco di foto dei giochi e stampato su carta di buona qualità. Ottimo volume quindi, per chi ha posseduto uno spectrum.

Um livro essencial para todo fã da linha Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Muito bem feito, com capricho, e tem até mesmo um "easter egg". Vale cada centavo.

Der Bildband "Sinclair ZX Spectrum: A Visual Compendium" ist ein absolutes Must-have für Retro-Gaming-Enthusiasten, selbst für diejenigen, die nie einen Sinclair ZX Spectrum besaßen. Auf 304 Seiten wird ein beeindruckendes Stück Computergeschichte präsentiert, das besonders die Bedeutung des ZX Spectrum in der britischen Videospielkultur hervorhebt. Die hochwertige Verarbeitung des Buches unterstreicht dessen Sammlerwert. Die Druckqualität und die sorgfältig ausgewählten Bilder sind hervorragend und fangen den Charme der Ära perfekt ein. Auch wenn der ZX Spectrum in Deutschland weniger präsent war, ist dieses Werk ein echter Schatz für Fans klassischer Computer- und Gaming-Geschichte.