{"id":30525,"date":"2026-01-27T10:30:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=30525"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:30:54","slug":"leaps-bounds-home-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/collection\/leaps-bounds-home-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book Leaps + Bounds Charts Nine Generations Of Home Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new book from premium retro publisher <strong>Bitmap<\/strong> <strong>Books<\/strong>, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitmapbooks.com\/collections\/coming-soon\/products\/leaps-bounds-a-visual-guide-to-nine-console-generations-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Leaps + Bounds<\/strong><\/a>, has been announced. The 336-page tome will chart nine generations of home gaming across every platform imaginable. From the humble beginnings of <strong>Pong<\/strong> machines, right through to the modern behemoth boxes,<strong> Leaps + Bounds<\/strong> aims to cover it all. As well as the well-known hits from <strong>Atari<\/strong>, <strong>Nintendo<\/strong>, and <strong>Sony<\/strong>, there will be plenty of space for the unique curios that may have gone under the radar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The book will also contain bespoke artwork of each console from artist <strong>Adam<\/strong> <strong>Rufino<\/strong>, as well as a foreword by retro console maker <strong>Christopher<\/strong> <strong>Taber<\/strong>, who is the CEO of <strong>Analogue<\/strong>. Although the book isn&#8217;t available to buy right now, a date of February 23rd, 2026, has been set. Currently, interested parties can sign up for email updates to know when the book is ready for purchase or pre-order.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leaps +Bounds<\/strong> will also include edge-to-edge high-quality lithographic print in hardback, sewn binding for enduring quality, and the ability to lay flat for ideal double-page image viewing. It will also include a bookmark ribbon and be supplied with a free PDF for viewing on the go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30527 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/leaps-bounds-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1062\" height=\"597\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book from premium retro publisher Bitmap Books, titled Leaps + Bounds, has been announced. The 336-page tome will chart nine generations of home gaming across every platform imaginable. From the humble beginnings of Pong machines, right through to the modern behemoth boxes, Leaps + Bounds aims to cover it all. As well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[166,167,29],"class_list":["post-30525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collection","tag-bitmap-books","tag-leaps-bounds","tag-physical-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}