Probably the *only* reason to bite your behind if you're interested in electronic gaming and don't speak any German
If you *do* speak German and qualify as gaming geek, go and order the latest edition of Winnie Forster's flagship title "Spielkonsolen und Heimcomputer" which translates to "Game Consoles and Home Computers".
Winnie did publish an English version of the second edition of the book which has long been sold out. Used copies of "The Encyclopedia of Game Machines" (official English title) are currently being traded for 250 USD and up at amazon.com. Nagging via email might help with another print run ;)
I don't know of any better book on the topic, despite owning pretty much every comparable title to have been published in the western world over the last 20 years.
Layout, organization and content are simply stellar.
The photo shows all three editions of the book that have been published to date.
Say "hi" to him from me via the order form and let me know what you think of it once you've had a chance to browse/read its 240 pages of well-researched facts and great photographs ;)
