Game Boy: The Box Art Collection

A celebration of Game Boy cover art spanning the original DMG through to the Game Boy Color, presented in a silver hardcover that nods to the hardware's iconic colorway. The book opens with a foreword from Gameboycameraman, an artist known for his work with the Game Boy Camera peripheral, followed by a twelve-page history of the hardware and a look at two notable collectors, one focused on Western releases, one on Japanese. The bulk of the book is the art itself, box art from across the library presented at a scale that actually does it justice. It rewards slow reading as much as flipping through. A good choice for anyone who grew up with the system and has an interest in how games were sold as much as how they were played.

Bitmap Books is a Bristol-based publisher that has been producing high-quality retro gaming books since the mid-2010s. They are a focused operation with a clear point of view: every book they make is treated as a design object in its own right, not just a collection of scanned images. Their packaging and print quality are consistently some of the best in the category. For readers interested in graphic design, game history, or the visual culture of handheld gaming.