Classic Arcade Game Art Book

Product Description

Gamers who cut their teeth in the arcades will love this trip down memory lane. Artcade is a unique collection of coin-op cabinet marquees, some dating back 40 years to the dawn of video gaming.

Originally acquired by Tim Nicholls from a Hollywood props company, this archive of marquees – many of which had suffered damage over time – have now been scanned and digitally restored to their former glory.

The full collection of classic arcade cabinet artwork is presented here for the first time in this stunning landscape hardback book, and accompanied by interviews with artists Larry Day and the late Python Anghelo.

Relive your mis-spent youth with artwork from dozens of coin-ops including Asteroid, Battlezone, Street Fighter II, Out Run, Moon Patrol, Gyruss, Q*Bert, Bubble Bobble and many more. Each marquee takes up a full double-page spread in the book, and is faithfully recreated using beautiful lithographic printing on the highest quality paper.

Tim has spent over a thousand hours assembling the high-resolution scans, restoring the images in Photoshop and color-correcting them back to their vibrant, as–new appearance. The results of all that hard work are now available as a lasting record of the amazing artwork that adorned the arcades during the golden era of coin-op video gaming.

Top Reviews

A few rare pics and commentary, but....
by C.Y. Simpleton (3 out of 5 stars)
November 27, 2016

I thought it would have more cabinet side art. There is only a handful of these types of pics. The majority is cabinet marquees only (130~150 different cabinet marquees), which is fine in itself but not what I thought I was getting. Shipped from the UK.
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Average
by Me (2 out of 5 stars)
December 11, 2018

The artwork featured in this book is almost entirely marquees. There's little-to-no information on most games.

I was unimpressed with some of the print/scan quality, but it wasn't terrible.

If the title of the book was "Mostly Common Arcade Marquees", I'd say I got what I asked for.
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The pictures are nice and the quality of the prints are great
by P. (1 out of 5 stars)
March 3, 2017

The pictures are nice and the quality of the prints are great, but all the pictures are printed as spreads across pages. I found it hard to enjoy the artwork with the binding running down the center of each page.
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As advertised -great book!
by RDM (5 out of 5 stars)
November 5, 2018

The book contained full size scans of video arcade artwork.

Fantastic as it will be a great resource for me.

I am currently building my own arcade machine.

I would use seller again. Product description met product received.
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Great coffee table book for 80s arcade rats
by ivydaddy (5 out of 5 stars)
June 21, 2016

There are a few glaring omissions, but classics like Shinobi, Altered Beast, and late 80s Capcom hits are included. Excellent paper and print quality.
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Great book for nostalgia or history
by Chris (5 out of 5 stars)
June 26, 2016

Great book for nostalgia or history. I find some of the art in this book to be more outstanding than most of what I've seen in museum art exhibits.
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Five Stars
by DinoBravo (5 out of 5 stars)
February 19, 2018

Excellent arcade coffee table book
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Five Stars
by Juan Ignacio Papaleo (5 out of 5 stars)
February 12, 2017

Beautiful!
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Amazing look at the art of the arcade.
by Derek Sorrells (5 out of 5 stars)
March 22, 2017

Beautiful, hard bound book highlighting the amazing marquees that made up the arcade games of the 80s and 90s.

While there is little commentary, the point of the book is not missed. That of the ART that was in the ARCADE.

Painstakingly, the art was taken and many times, restored before moving to this printed format.

I was an original Kickstarter supporter and could not be more pleased with the final product!
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who loved it.
by Amazon Customer (5 out of 5 stars)
December 14, 2016

Gift for my son, who loved it.

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