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Tim Lapetino has been a fan of Atari art since childhood. An award-winning Creative Director and graphic designer, his design and branding work has been published in more than a dozen books and magazines. He co-authored the design inspiration book Damn Good: Top Designers Discuss Their All-Time Favorite Projects, and has written for HOW, Geek Monthly, RETRO, and other publications. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Museum of Video Game Art (MOVA), and is dedicated to chronicling the intersection of design and pop culture. He resides in Chicago with his wife and two kids.
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Product details
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment (October 25, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1524101036
ISBN-13: 978-1524101039
Product Dimensions:
9.5 x 1.2 x 11.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.8 out of 5 stars
167 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#45,297 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Children of the '80s, you're going to love this book! If you're like me, middle-aged, with fond memories of playing video games on the classic Atari 2600 console, you are going to love perusing Tim Lapetino's beautiful coffee-table book Art of Atari. This book is a nostalgia trip that took me back to some long, lazy days in front of the TV playing video games.This large, colorful volume includes sections on the history of Atari, console games, industrial design, and some of the little-known and never-released concepts Atari produced. But the meat of the book, about 3/4 of the content, is the art work of the many Atari games. As Ernest Cline points out in the Foreward, "Even though the crude graphics of the games themselves were never quite as colorful or realistic as the illustrations depicted, that artwork had an almost magical way of elevating your gameplay experience, by helping your imagination bridge the gap between the crude pixelated shapes dancing across your TV screen and the fantastic images they could conjure in your mind's eye."To say the actual games did not measure up to the fanciful box cover art is an understatement. I looked through the book with my 15-year-old son, who has grown up with Wii and PS3. He was roaring with laughter at the screen images of the games. And it's true; the graphics were truly horrid. Art of Atari is a great reminder that even a game with terrible graphics and a simple one-button joystick can be loads of fun.But the real focus of Art of Atari is the art and the artists. Lapetino presents page after page of box cover art, accompanying art, concept art, promotional art, and preliminary designs, interspersed with profiles and quotes from the artists. Reading about their work and anecdotes about the industry is fun and insightful. It would have been interested to see more examples of the in-game art. Granted, the crude illustrations may best be forgotten; perhaps Lapetino was right only to include a small screen shot of each game.Even the most ardent Atari fan will see games and other products in Art of Atari that he or she has never seen or has long forgotten about. Any Atari fan will be longing to dig out the old 2600 and play some games after spending some time with this book. I enjoyed seeing all this art and history compiled in one place.Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the complimentary electronic review copy!
This book deserves 10 stars!!! Just got it today after I pre-ordered it and I really wasn't expecting too much...boy was I wrong. It's not just Atari cover art but some pretty detailed information from the artist on some of the covers. Images of unused covers along with pencil and color studies done by the artists on some of the covers. Fantastic...I mean fantastic scans of the art. I mean I could go on but if you love art it's a must...if you love Atari it's a must. The perfect coffee table book and one I won't be putting down for a while.Oh, Also there is also small bios on the artist and a quick history of the Atari consoles with some industrial design art of the models.This is how you do a Art of book! Major props to Tim Lapetino on putting this together.
I received my Atari 2600 for Christmas of 1978 and spent the next 4 years entrenched in everything Atari - from the games, to the manuals that were included, to the boxes themselves. Spending all of my spare change in the arcade during the days, I'd come home and play my Atari for hours before bedtime: Dodge 'Em, Night Driver, and Combat were my first. Then came the onslaught of arcade conversions; Space Invaders, Missile Command, Asteroids. Going to the mall or department store meant another chance for me to be able to look over those wonderful boxes and stare at the artwork hinting at the wonder that they contained. This book takes the reader back to those days and the overall magic and wonder of the early home videogame years. It's more than just pictures of box art - it's stories, personal accounts, history, and informative facts about the early world of Atari. This book is a must buy if, like me, you were in your "prime" years during the late 70's and early 80's. It is going to find a permanent place on my coffee table and will be a source for conversation for many years to come. Thanks to everyone who put this book together!
Excellent book. This book is stuffed with many photos, pictures, and descriptions. There is a History section with photos of the people that worked at Atari. There is a section containing many games, the artwork used for the covers and also a screenshot of the gameplay. The screenshot is small and it would have been nicer to have the screenshot be double the size. There are photos of the consoles, and descriptions about them.The book measures 11.25" H x 10" W x 1.125" D. It's a hardcover book. The binding seems to be strong and sturdy and seems like it will last over the years. I've attached several photos with samples pages from the book. The book contains 351 pages.
Those of us old enough to have started gaming on the Atari 2600 remember that those graphics tended to be somewhat...underwhelming. Playing classic games like Adventure, Combat, Circus Atari and Superman it helped if your imagination could fill in the blanks, and nothing helped that process along like the packaging your game came in. The art on the boxes and instruction manuals laid the foundation for the worlds that the Atari's processor could never actually display on screen.I've been saying for years that I'd love a collection of that art in a book and I'm thrilled that someone finally did it. Anyone who spent the late 70s hooked on these games should love seeing the high quality reproductions of the art and learning some history about the talented folks who made them all happen. If you're one of us early Gen-Xers this book is for you.
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