Retro Video Game and Culture blogs from the Bitmap Books team

Larger Than Life: Video Game Box Art That Overpromised

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

Puzzle games and the Game Boy go hand in hand. With its small screen and – how to put t...

By Graeme Mason February 19, 2023