FIRST BITNESS: FROM THE BIRTH OF VIDEO GAMES TO THE END OF THEIR CHILDHOOD
- Mar 27
- 1 min read
Sergej »Sneti« Hvala
First Bitness is a Slovenian book about the past of video games and everything connected to them. Across nearly 380 full-color pages, Sergej “Sneti” Hvala guides readers from the era of pinball, arcades, and the earliest consoles and computers of the 1970s, through the reign of 8-bit home machines and the rise of their 16-bit successors, to the spread of IBM PC clones and the arrival of the CD era.
It frames the mid-1990s as a turning point: when Sony’s PlayStation entered the mainstream, the “age of innocence” ended and video games became serious business. Blending historical writing, essays, nostalgia, critique, and occasional poetry—and including the local Slovenian scene—it paints a picture of a fast-evolving medium that shaped countless lives and eventually became the world’s biggest entertainment industry. Whether you lived through it or not, this book aims to be a complete guide to why gaming grew so dramatically.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
LANGUAGE | BINDING | EDITION | ISBN | YEAR | PAGES |
Slovenian | Hardcover | N/A | 2022 | 375 |
OTHER NAMES
First Bitness: From the Birth of Video Games to the End of Their Childhood
Prva bitnost: od rojstva videoiger do konca njihovega otroštva
TAGS
Authors: #SergejHvala
Publishers: #Jazbina (Jazbina Publishing House [Založba Jazbina])
Languages: #Slovenian
Format: #Hardcover
Accessibility: N/A
Year: #Year2022
Companies:
#Commodore (Commodore)
#EA (EA, Electronic Arts)
#Nintendo (Nintendo)
#Sony (Sony)
Public Figures:
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Games:
#Doom (Doom)
#Hugo (Hugo)
#MinerWilly (Jet Set Willy)
#SpaceInvaders (Space Invaders)
#TombRaiders (Tomb Raiders)
Misc:
N/A
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