Pac Man, Space Invaders, Tetris, Super Mario Bros. are video games veterans and more than just reminiscences of an untroubled childhood. Challenging stories and characters, visual quality and aesthetic experience make them successful examples of popular interaction design. They so become more than a mere video game and can be regarded as a multimedia art form.
“Push Start” outlines the graphical evolution from its beginnings, through the golden age of arcade video games, to the latest generation of game consoles. Fascinating artwork and screenshot prints of the most famous video games and the corresponding cult sounds on a 10-inch vinyl create an expanding universe of game culture in which the worlds of emotion, reality and art collide.