Forum LEVEL

Cristan wrote: 8 May 2020, 20:44 Sid Meier's memoir is called Sid Meier's Memoir! and it's coming this September



https://sidmeiersmemoir.com/

Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world’s most popular videogames, including Sid Meier’s Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier’s Memoir! is the story of an obsessive young computer enthusiast who helped launch a multibillion-dollar industry. Writing with warmth and ironic humor, Meier describes the genesis of his influential studio, MicroProse, founded in 1982 after a trip to a Las Vegas arcade, and recounts the development of landmark games, from vintage classics like Pirates! and Railroad Tycoon, to Civilization and beyond.

Art book, archive and tome of legend, 20 Double Fine Years explores the people, culture, events and inspiration behind titles that are varied, unique and, above all else, distinctly Double Fine.

Browse the art and read the tales of ingenuity that have defined the studio's output over two decades, from Psychonauts to Costume Quest, Brütal Legend to Broken Age, The Cave to Rad and stacks more. Lovingly produced and constructed by Indie By Design, creators of luxury books that celebrate the history, culture and creativity of videogames.

Google Translated wrote:In the beginning there was a magazine. Then there was the Starter. And now there is a book. The cult game magazine Level brings a unique book of interviews with game developers from all over the world. In the book you will find 37 personalities, many of whom stood at the birth of home video games at the turn of the 70s and 80s of the last century, and others managed to move the same entertainment light years ahead in the twenty-first century. The editors of Level spoke personally with veterans and living legends, and you can find the expanded result in the book About Games and People.

The interviews are accompanied by visual material and original photos, many of which are expanded with several bonus parts. The book is also complemented by thematic articles from the regular authors of the magazine.

In his wonderful new book, The Games of a Lifetime, Rignall himself recalls the shock of being swamped by fans. “We just didn’t expect anything like that,” he writes. “I had no idea readers would be so interested in us. But I loved it.”

I’m not sure he should have been so surprised, though. Back in the mid-80s, the boom era of the C64 and ZX Spectrum home computers, magazines such as Crash, Zzap and Computer & Video Games were the only sources of news and opinion about new games. At the time, information about game developers was scarce, so magazine reviewers, with their photos plastered in every issue, were the stars of the industry, the social media influencers of the era.

Before sleek, minimalist packaging took over, graphics card boxes were chaotic, garish and unapologetically obnoxious. From the mid-’90s to early 2010s, PC gamers were greeted with a horde of non-brand cybernetic goddesses, mystical wizards, savage ogres, and chrome warriors brandishing giant swords - all promising to unlock the future of gaming.

These boxes didn’t just promise better frame rates - they vowed to unleash raw digital chaos.

Overclocked is a lovingly curated journey through the golden age of GPU box art, rescued from hours of digging through dead Google links, old eBay listings, and defunct forums. It commemorates a time when manufacturers fought for dominance with the most amped-up packaging imaginable, chronicling over 300 retail boxes and 50 adrenaline-charged video card print advertisements from the glory days of gaming magazines.