Supercade was Van Burnham’s ode to the golden age of video games — a big coffee table book that captured the visual history of games from 1971 to 1984.

Now that golden age is getting a refresh as Burnham’s Supercade book is heading toward a reissue, thanks to a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. As of last night, the campaign had raised $50,347 of its $34,000 goal. More than 259 people have backed it, with 19 days to go in the campaign.

The reissue of Supercade, which illustrated and documented the history, legacy and visual language of videogaming’s golden age, seems like it’s coming so early. I mean, I lived through this history and it doesn’t seem all that long ago, as the memories of games and arcades are so fresh in my mind.

But this time was decades ago. Thirty years ago, Burnham was working as production designer for a magazine in New York City. The “World Wide Web” was brand new and she found other nerds nesting online who shared her love of vintage videogames.

She would scan and share manuals from my original Odyssey 2 console and get in heated debates about whether K.C. Munchkin! was a better port of Pac-Man than Atari’s official version. She still says it is.

Burnham wondered if any books had been written about the games she played in the 70s and 80s. One day, she went to Rizzoli on Broadway and asked if they had any — on a shelf in the “technology” section were Zap: The Rise and Fall of Atari by Scott Cohen and Game Over by David Sheff (still her favorite book about games). That was literally it.