This was an interesting overview of the history of video games. Each chapter focuses on a different game and the history of the game's development. The author does fall into some annoying habits, however. Each chapter ends with a sort of 'guess what the next game is' cliffhanger and you don't realize what the next game is until halfway through the next chapter. It's a frustrating and unnecessary technique. Goldberg could easily have named the chapters after the game in question and the reader still would be interested to read the chapter. Furthermore, Goldberg falls occasionally into terrible lurid prose, such as "the videogame industry was growing as fast as pot under a grow lamp". On top of phrases like that, he consistently refers to gamers as 'geeks' - not the best choice of words, I think, if that is your main audience. In the end, the book is interesting in a business perspective or to the gamers out there. The rest of us could be satisfied with reading the chapters about our favourite games.