Over the next few months we plan to highlight a selection of books that focus on some of the key areas that we often write about here at iPad Creative. All the books we refer to can be found in the iBooks Store right there on your iPad. We'll be sure to provide the appropriate link for each publication, but due to publishing restrictions we can't promise that the book we feature will be available in your country. Sorry.

This week's book is Classic Videogames Hardware 01. 'A collector's guide to history's greatest gaming machines', this 400+ page book features 35 gaming hardware platforms.

Each piece of hardware gets its own chapter that covers the history of the development of the device plus the top 10 games that run on it. We like to think that we know quite a bit about the history of video game hardware, but we learnt something new on almost every page. Would you like to know who were the first non-Nintendo employees to see the legendary Gameboy hardware? Yes, the answer to that and many other intriguing gaming questions can be found among this book's virtual pages.

Like all the books available in the iBook Store you can grab a sample before committing to purchase.

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iBooks Store Link: Classic Videogames Hardware 01.