A video game journalist and author of "Power Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life", Kohler has taught the history of video games at Tufts University. The book also teaches readers to revive old machines for the original gaming experience: hook up an Apple II or a Commodore 64, for example, and play it like you played before. Kohler provides emulation techniques, complete with instructions for hacking a classic joystick that's compatible with a contemporary computer. Rather adapt today's equipment to run retro games? Want to game on an original system? Kohler shows you how to hack ancient hardware, and includes a primer for home-brewing classic software. "Retro Gaming Hacks" serves up 85 hard-nosed hacks for reviving the classic games. Kohler has complied tons of how-to information on retro gaming that used to take days or weeks of Web surfing to track down and sort through, and he presents it in the popular and highly readable Hacks style. Whether you've just been attacked by Space Invaders for the first time or you've been a Pong junkie since puberty, Chris Kohler's "Retro Gaming Hacks" is the indispensable new guide to playing and hacking classic games. But whatever is driving the current retro gaming craze, one thing is certain: classic games are back for a big second act, and they're being played in both old and new ways. Every Game Boy must ponder his roots from time to time.
Maybe it was the recent Atari 2600 milestone anniversary that fueled nostalgia for the golden days of computer and console gaming.
The author aims to locate the convergence of classic games and contemporary software, revealing not only how to retrofit classic games for systems, but how to find the golden oldies hidden in contemporary programs as well. Providing how-to information on retro gaming, this is a guide to playing and hacking classic games.
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