A beautifully curated journey through five decades of game consoles.

The Game Console 2.0 is a revised and expanded second edition of the bestselling The Game Console, featuring substantial new content. This updated edition adds fifty pages and includes coverage of fifty additional consoles, variants, and accessories. Designed as a visually striking coffee table book for gamers and enthusiasts, it brings together highly detailed photography of more than one hundred video game consoles and their electronic interiors, spanning nearly five decades.

Updated following the acclaimed 2018 release of the first edition, The Game Console 2.0 expands into an even more comprehensive archival collection. With vividly detailed images, the book chronicles over one hundred video game systems across five decades and nine distinct generations. Presented in chronological order, it documents everything from market-defining successes to notable commercial failures, tracing the video game industry’s rise, decline, and eventual resurgence.

The second edition introduces a broader range of classic consoles and home computers, includes a dedicated section on retro gaming in the modern era, and adds dozens of new entries. Among these are extremely rare systems such as the Unisonic Champion 2711, as well as the latest ninth-generation consoles. Coverage spans early pioneers like the Magnavox Odyssey, Atari 2600, NES, and Commodore 64, continues through systems of the 1990s and 2000s, and extends to modern platforms including the Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5, alongside lesser-known consoles many readers may never have encountered.

Offering a close look at the hardware that powered some of the world’s most iconic gaming systems, The Game Console 2.0 provides a unique visual archive of video game history and stands as a definitive reference and display piece for gamers and collectors alike.

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