Art of Atari
I stumbled across this while looking for pictures of spaceships. It's a nice, coffee-table sized hardcover book. I checked out some reviews to make sure it wasn't 300 pages of text and then just 20 glossy centerfolds or something.
But it does NOT disappoint! This book is AWESOME. It is stuffed, and I mean jam packed with Atari art. And not just the box art, but rejected concepts, patent pictures, old promo shots, and instruction book art.
I got it because they just don't do video game art like this any more, probably because the graphics are, to be honest, better than the box art could be. But that wasn't always the case. In the beginning our imaginations had to help out the graphics quite a bit. And this art was there to help fuel the imagination.
If you are into this kind of thing, this book is really worth it. It's forty bucks from the publisher, but I got it new from Amazon for thirty something.
Art of Atari
I stumbled across this while looking for pictures of spaceships. It's a nice, coffee-table sized hardcover book. I checked out some reviews to make sure it wasn't 300 pages of text and then just 20 glossy centerfolds or something.
But it does NOT disappoint! This book is AWESOME. It is stuffed, and I mean jam packed with Atari art. And not just the box art, but rejected concepts, patent pictures, old promo shots, and instruction book art.
I got it because they just don't do video game art like this any more, probably because the graphics are, to be honest, better than the box art could be. But that wasn't always the case. In the beginning our imaginations had to help out the graphics quite a bit. And this art was there to help fuel the imagination.
If you are into this kind of thing, this book is really worth it. It's forty bucks from the publisher, but I got it new from Amazon for thirty something.