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Press release:
July 27, 2017 (Doncaster, UK) – This stunning art book takes you on a visual journey through one of the most iconic game artists of all time – Oliver Frey. Packed with high-resolution imagery and insightful features, “The Fantasy Art of Oliver Frey” is the ultimate collection of Oliver’s work, alongside a detailed biography and fascinating features. If you were a gamer of the 80s and 90s, there will be a great deal of artwork in this book that you will recognise, featuring art from classic publications including ZZAP!64, CRASH, FEAR and more.

Oliver Frey worked on some of Britain’s greatest comic institutions – The Fleetway War Picture Library, Dan Dare in Eagle and the Trigan Empire in Look & Learn, as well as his celebrated 1930’s-style opening sequence for the film Superman: The Movie. But for an entire generation in the 1980’s it is Frey’s extraordinary art on the covers of cult computer games magazines that came to express the exuberance and sheer excitement of the games they played.

Presented as a hardback, with a stylish dust cover, this is a perfect addition to any retro gamers library.

Features:
– Stunning artwork from Oliver Frey’s iconic history
– Extended Edition: 248 pages
– Classic art from such games and licenses such as: Street Fighter, Streets of Rage, Blues Brothers, Batman, Alien, Predator, Mortal Kombat, Robocop and much more!
– Classic art from historical publications including ZZAP!64, CRASH, FEAR and more!
– Forward by Roger M. Kean
Chapters
– Foreword
– Biography (The Early Years)
– Biography (A Boom In Video Games)
– Biography (Crashing Into The Bigtime)
– 1. Monsters and Aliens
– 2. Space Manoeuvres
– 3. Mechanical Mayhem
– 4. The Gaming Experience
– 5. Sporting Characters
– 6. Gore, Grue and Dysfunction
– 7. Heroes and Villains
– 8. Weird and Wonderful

The Extended Edition is available now at just £19.99 from Europe’s Number One Retro Gaming Destination, FunstockRetro.co.uk.

About FunstockRetro.co.uk
FunstockRetro.co.uk are the UK and Europe’s number one retro games store! Home of classic games, retro gamer gifts, retro gaming consoles, classic video game merchandise and retro gamers accessories. Includes: SNK NeoGeo, Atari, SEGA, Nintendo, Amiga, Commodore, ColecoVision, IntelliVision, ZX Spectrum, Super Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Pac Man, Zelda, Space Invaders, Retron, Retro-Bit, JXD, Bitmap Books & more!

We have been bringing you ‘new ways to enjoy old games’ since 2012 and have had our products featured on Yahoo, Forbes, TechRadar, Metro, Mirror, DigitalTrends, Gadget Show, DigitalSpy, Geek, Wired, FHM, Maxim, Nintendo Life, Stuff, GQ, Retro Gamer, CNET and many more!

FunStock aims to provide a platform for retro gaming – to bring you ‘new ways to enjoy old games’ while maintaining our industry standard level of customer service.

About Oliver Frey
Oliver Frey worked on some of Britain’s greatest comic institutions – The Fleetway War Picture Library, Dan Dare in Eagle and the Trigan Empire in Look & Learn, as well as his celebrated 1930’s-style opening sequence for the film Superman: The Movie. But for an entire generation in the 1980’s it is Frey’s extraordinary art on the covers of cult computer games magazines that came to express the exuberance and sheer excitement of the games they played.

About Fusion Retro Books
Our first launch title was ‘The History of Ocean Software’ – a book that has continued to hit a chord with many a nostalgic gamer. We successfully ran a Kickstarter back in November 2012 that raised a modest sum of money allowing us to produce a high quality, 264 page book on one of the largest software publishers of the 1980s and 90s. We left no stone unturned – talking to all those at the top of the management chain right down to those in the dungeon of Central Street, Manchester. The book continues to sell well.

We have continued producing high quality books with now a wide range available that will cater for all your retro gaming interests.

Jonas “O.J” Ek
The Gaming Ground
Twitter: @TheGamingGround