Both hardbacks together: 252 games across 588 full-colour A4 pages, from the first red flicker of LED in 1972 to the pocket LCD revolution of the mid-1980s, and the odd ones out that came before and after.
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Every game in the set
Volume One 1972–1980 138 games
The book’s year-by-year chapters begin in 1975. The handful of earlier games, from 1972 to 1974, are included alongside them.
1972
- 21 Blackjack Radio Shack
- Electro Tic-Tac-Toe Waco
1973
- Comput-A-Dice Waco
1974
- Charlie the Super Electronic Mini-Organ Maker unconfirmed
1975
- Flashpoint Screen Art Enterprises
- Roulette Otron
- The Dice Jolly Products
1976
- Auto Race Mattel Electronics
1977
- Blip Tomy
- Dataman Texas Instruments
- Electronic Master Mind Invicta Games
- Logic 5 Milton Bradley
- Monkey See Radio Shack (cat. 60-3006)
1978
- Alien Invaders Shira
- Amaze-A-Tron Coleco
- Arcade Attack Tomy
- Armor Battle Mattel Electronics
- Baseball Mattel Electronics
- Bestech Missile Eidai Grip
- Black Racer Tomy
- Bowling 300 Ahi
- Casino 21 Epoch
- Compu-Bowl Tomy for Sears
- Compute-A-Tune Waddingtons
- Demon Driver Tomy
- Elecroad Bandai
- Football Sears
- Football II Mattel Electronics
- Foto-Electronic Bowling Cadaco
- Hockey Mattel Electronics
- Intercept Lakeside Games
- Little Professor Texas Instruments
- Mathemagician APF Electronics
- Mind Boggler Mattel Electronics
- Scrabble Sensor Selchow & Righter
- Simon Milton Bradley
- Soccer Mattel Electronics
- Space Alert Mattel Electronics
- Space Shot with Timer Yonezawa
- Speak & Spell Texas Instruments
- Sub Chase Mattel Electronics
- The Game Machine Waddingtons
- Touch Me Atari
1979
- Alien Avenger Shinsei
- Attack Invader Bandai
- Baseball Entex
- Basketball Bambino
- Blockbuster MB Electronics
- Brain Baffler Mattel Electronics
- Computer Perfection Lakeside Games
- Dentist Waddingtons
- Dr. Smith Tomy
- Easy Dice Menorcrest
- Einstein Castle Toy Co.
- Electronic Concentration LJN Toys
- Electronic Detective Ideal
- Electronic Hockey Entex
- Electronic Poker Entex
- Follow Me Sears
- Football Toytronic
- Football Bambino
- Head to Head Hockey Coleco
- Ice Hockey Bambino
- Lightning Luke Corgi
- Major Morgan Playskool
- Maniac Ideal
- Merlin Parker Brothers
- Missile Strike Tomy
- Name That Tune Castle Toy Co.
- Pools Prospector Elrom
- Professor Einstein Maker unconfirmed
- Red Light Green Light Mattel Electronics
- Rocket Pinball Tiger Electronics
- Soccer Temco
- Soccer Grandstand
- Soccer Entex
- Soccer Bambino
- Solitaire Grandstand
- Space Attack Tomy
- Space Battle Entex
- Space Laser Fight Bambino
- Spelling ABC Texas Instruments
- Star Wars Kenner
- Super-Sonic Invicta Games
- UFO Master-Blaster Bambino
- Wildfire Parker Brothers
- Zap! Coleco
- Zodiac Coleco
1980
- Basketball Tomy
- Blast It Entex
- Champion Racer Bandai
- Computerized Chess Tandy
- Cue Ball (Bank Shot in the USA) Palitoy (Parker Brothers licence)
- Detective Shoestring Epoch
- Electric Bowling Tomland
- Electron Blaster Vanity Fair
- Electronic Striker Tomy
- Exec-U-Play Imaginamics
- Executive Decision Maker Tandy
- Fabulous Fred Mego
- Fire Away Tandy
- FL Battle Beam Bandai
- FL Beam Galaxian Bandai
- Galaxian Bandai
- Galaxy Invader 1000 CGL
- Genius MB Electronics
- Gunfighter Bandai
- Head to Head Coleco
- Head to Head Football Coleco
- Hockey Bandai for Sears Canada
- Jackpot Entex
- Jimmy Waddingtons
- Math Marvel Texas Instruments
- Melody Madness GAF
- Milton Milton Bradley
- Missile Invader Bandai
- Mr Subattack Bandai
- Musical Marvin Entex
- Newport 500 Castle Toy Co.
- Pocket Simon MB Electronics
- Power House Pinball Tomy
- Quiz Machine Toybox
- Racetrack Toytronic
- Raise the Devil Entex
- Sound FX Phasor Electroplay
- Space Invader Entex
- Space Invaders & Block Buster Ramtex
- Spaceship Pinball Toytronic
- Speak & Maths Texas Instruments
- Speak & Read Texas Instruments
- Split Second Parker Brothers
- Strobe Lakeside Games
- Super Simon Milton Bradley
- Tactix Castle Toy Co.
- Tennis Tomy
- Tennis Entex
- Torpedo Shoot Bandai
- Yacht Four Union Major
Volume Two 1981–1985 and beyond 114 games
1981
- Alien Attack Coleco
- Amidar Gakken
- Astro Invader Entex
- Astro Wars Epoch
- Black Belt Action GT
- Combat Pilot: Star Blazer Thomas Salter
- Crazy Climbing Bandai
- Crazy Kong Grandstand
- Electronic Reaction Parker Brothers
- FL Packri Monster Bandai
- FL U-Boat Bandai
- Football Tandy
- Frogger CGL
- Galactic Invaders Prinztronic
- Galaxian Coleco
- Galaxy Twinvader Hanzawa for CGL
- Head to Head Boxing Coleco
- Lightfight Milton Bradley
- Mini Munchman Grandstand
- Munchman Tomy
- Music Challenger IV Westrak
- Musical Challenger X 12 Westrak
- Ogre Eater Tandy
- Pac-Man Coleco
- PacMan2 Entex
- Pak-Pak Man II Epoch
- Pass Me! Electroplay
- Pocket Repeat Tandy
- Pomcard 5 Shinsei
- Quiz Wiz Coleco
- Race ’N’ Chase Bambino
- Reflex Parker Brothers
- Safari Bambino
- Super Space Invader 2 Entex
- Super Space-Jack Onko Electronics
- Swat Swat Coleco
- The Big Game Grandstand
- Total Control 4 Coleco
- Tron Tomy
1982
- Alien Attack Tomy
- Arcade Defender Entex
- Caveman Tomy
- Changeman FL Bandai
- Cosmic Scramble Hanzawa
- Donkey Kong Coleco
- Dracula House Epoch
- Earth Invaders CGL
- Fitter Gakken
- Flipper Électronique Radofin (attributed)
- Frogger Coleco
- Galaxy Invader 10000 CGL
- Great Escape Tsukuda
- Jet Fighters Gakken
- Jungler Gakken
- Kingman Tomy
- Lupin Tomy
- Maximus Playskool
- Monkey See (1982 edition) Radio Shack (cat. 60-1013)
- Monster Chase Innovator Electronics
- Paint Roller Gakken
- Puck Monster Gakken
- Scramble Epoch
- Space Shot Tandy
- Stargate Entex
- Super Cobra Gakken
- Super Cobra Entex
- Super Kong CGL
- The Dracula Tsukuda
- Turtles Entex
- Zaxxon Coleco
1983
- 3-D Shark Attack Tomy
- 3D Dogfight Tomy
- Basketball Gakken
- BMX Flyer Tomy for Grandstand
- Computer Pinball Epoch
- Computerized Arcade Radio Shack
- Cosmic 2000 Tandy
- Dig Dug Gakken
- Donkey Kong Jr. Nintendo
- Firefox F-7 Grandstand
- Golf Tandy
- Mario’s Cement Factory Nintendo
- Monty Plays Scrabble Ritam
- Ms. Pac-Man Coleco
- Pengo FL Bandai
- Planet Zeon Tomy
- Pocket Scramble Grandstand
- Popeye Nintendo
- Q*bert Parker Brothers
- Sky Attack Tomy
- Skyfighters Tomy
- Slot Elepachi FL Tsukuda
- Snoopy Nintendo
- Thundering Turbo Tomy
- Zig Zag Monster Epoch
1984
- Alien Chase Tomy
- Hyper Olympic Bandai
- Miracle Pinball Casio
- My First Computer Grandstand
- Pair Match Bandai
- Star Force Epoch
- Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends Grandstand
- Trivia Timer Tiger Electronics
1985
- Space Turbo Tomy
Extra Credit the odd ones out, 1965–2013
- Magic Brain Chadwick · 1965
- Animator Ohio Art · 1986
- Mini Wizard VTech · 1987
- Wizard VTech · 1987
- Copy Cat Tiger Electronics · 1988
- Electronic Pinball Tandy · 1989
- Barcode Battler Epoch · 1991
- Lock-On Sega · 1992
- Lights Out Tiger Electronics · 1995
- Game Robot 50 Hanayama · 2013