Retro Video Game and Culture blogs from the Bitmap Books team

Videos Gaming’s Six Scariest Moments

For all of cinema’s most haunting works – and there are many – nothing quite scares lik...

By Will Freeman October 18, 2023

Here at Bitmap Books, we love video game cover art. So much so, our latest book, The Ar...

By Graeme Mason September 26, 2023

Here at Bitmap Books, we love arcade gaming. These glowing temples to neon and pixels r...

By Graeme Mason July 11, 2023

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), or Super Famicom, was a haven for role-...

By Graeme Mason May 28, 2023

Originally launched in 1987, The PC Engine console – known as the TurboGrafx-16 in Amer...

By Graeme Mason May 15, 2023

In the early 1980’s 15 year-old Adam Clayton noticed a rather unusual hidden message wh...

By Nate Drake April 8, 2023