Sinclair ZX Spectrum: a visual compendium | Retro Gaming Book by Bitmap Books

The entire Bitmap Books visual compendium range is worth picking up if you are a Retro Gaming fan - the content is visually excellent and the written content is engaging and fun to work through. Even experts stand to learn something new from a read. This ZX Spectrum focussed book (closely followed by the Amiga) book is my favourite in the series so far. The nostalgia is real - and spotting titles I played as a kid but couldn't remember by name just based on the screen shots was really exciting!

Great book. The speccy was THE games machine in the 80s. Great nostalgia

Great little tablet. It does everything my wife wants and more. Bought at a very good price.

This is a rare beast - a veritable time machine. Writing a historical record that can transport those of us who were there back to the time in question is a great art. The witness statements ring true. I heard they had to use special inks to get the colour to look just right. A time of primary colours. There's even four different coloured bookmarks. The world revealed by these machines in the early 80's was small but perfectly formed, and we will do injustice to future generations if we forget what that spark looked like.

This book is absolutely gorgeous. Bitmap books is becoming well known for producing great-quality highly enjoyable retro gaming books. With their current kickstarter campaign for the C64, they're steadily creating a line of wonderful coffee-table books. Now, I'm hoping they'll make some retro-themed coffee tables for me to put them on :) Every page is eye-poppingly vibrant. No stolid loading-screens or banks and banks of stodgy text. The imagery is interspersed wonderfully with the text, and the text is both enjoyable to read, and nostalgia-inducing to the max. The market is getting quite saturated of ZX Spectrum game books, but I'm very glad I got this one. I just wish it covered more of the games I used to love!

Absolutely love this book. I think I'm having a mid life crisis as it isn't just this I've purchased, but I've also bought 'The Spectrum' so l can actually play the games too. The reason I haven't give 5 stars to the book is that it's a bit over priced.

The book is fantastic - high quality, interesting articles and game comments. I highly recommend the book but will be buying direct from Bitmap Books in the future: The packing by Amazon, not so good and resulted in dented corners of the book. I brought the SNES visual compendium direct from Bitmap Books and their packing is amazing - The best I have seen for a book.

Essential book for those who lived the 80's with the Spectrum or equivalent (I had a Timex 2068) as a companion! Long days and nights discovering a world of colour and sounds and an alternative reality that made us grow our personality.