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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
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4.29 avg rating — 15,884 ratings
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
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3.95 avg rating — 10,157 ratings
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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
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4.21 avg rating — 15,979 ratings
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Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
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3.80 avg rating — 7,747 ratings
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Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
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3.83 avg rating — 4,213 ratings
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Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
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3.53 avg rating — 3,440 ratings
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Replay: The History of Video Games
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4.04 avg rating — 1,246 ratings
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The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World
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4.12 avg rating — 2,551 ratings
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Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World
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4.10 avg rating — 1,397 ratings
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What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy
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3.88 avg rating — 1,272 ratings
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High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games
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3.94 avg rating — 231 ratings
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture
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3.57 avg rating — 799 ratings
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Gamers at Work: Stories Behind the Games People Play
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3.71 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Ultimate Nintendo: Guide to the NES Library, 1985–1995
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4.47 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World
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3.62 avg rating — 521 ratings
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Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
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3.60 avg rating — 369 ratings
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How to Do Things with Videogames
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3.64 avg rating — 477 ratings
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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System
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4.07 avg rating — 715 ratings
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Arcade Mania: The Turbo-Charged World of Japan's Game Centers
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3.64 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames
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3.82 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Video Game Storytelling: What Every Developer Needs to Know about Narrative Techniques
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4.03 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
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4.06 avg rating — 3,909 ratings
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Mega Man 3 (Boss Fight Books, #14)
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3.72 avg rating — 163 ratings
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The Making of Prince of Persia
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4.03 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
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Katamari Damacy (Boss Fight Books, #17)
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3.73 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Jagged Alliance 2 (Boss Fight Books, #5)
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4.05 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Chrono Trigger (Boss Fight Books, #2)
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3.38 avg rating — 402 ratings
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Continue? The Boss Fight Books Anthology (Boss Fight Books)
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2.91 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Metal Gear Solid (Boss Fight Books, #9)
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3.64 avg rating — 386 ratings
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Galaga (Boss Fight Books, #4)
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3.10 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Super Mario Bros. 2 (Boss Fight Books, #6)
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3.47 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art and Soul in Video Games
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4.03 avg rating — 595 ratings
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The Micro Kids: An 80s Adventure with ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and more (Video Games Book)
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3.88 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Réquiem para el Jefe Final. Antología de la música en los videojuegos
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4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution
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3.47 avg rating — 274 ratings
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Nintendo Magic: Winning the Videogame Wars
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3.62 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto
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3.58 avg rating — 1,461 ratings
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Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus "Notch" Persson and the Game that Changed Everything
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3.85 avg rating — 1,501 ratings
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The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
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3.66 avg rating — 294 ratings
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Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft, and More
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3.98 avg rating — 423 ratings
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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die
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3.83 avg rating — 534 ratings
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Uncertainty in Games
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3.54 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on the People Who Play Them
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4.05 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Silent Hill: The Terror Engine
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3.73 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The State of Play: Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds
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3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World
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3.76 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Stay Awhile and Listen : How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire
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3.79 avg rating — 499 ratings
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Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution
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4.02 avg rating — 128 ratings
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The Xbox 360 Uncloaked: The Real Story Behind Microsoft's Next Generation Video Game Console
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4.05 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Shadow of the Colossus (Boss Fight Books, #10)
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3.73 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts
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3.86 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Anime and the Visual Novel: Narrative Structure, Design and Play at the Crossroads of Animation and Computer Games
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4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Contra and Other Konami Classics
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3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The State of Play: Creators and Critics on Video Game Culture
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3.59 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Super Mario Bros. 3 (Boss Fight Books, #13)
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3.80 avg rating — 218 ratings
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The History of Nintendo (1980-1991) - The Game & Watch
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3.91 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Dreamcast Worlds: a Design History
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3.29 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Spelunky (Boss Fight Books, #11)
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4.43 avg rating — 1,358 ratings
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Delay: Paying Attention to Energy Mechanics
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3.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Anatomy of Super Mario (The Anatomy of Games Volume 1)
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3.66 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Confessions of the Game Doctor
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2.92 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Castlevania
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3.90 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Clipping Through: One Mad Week In Video Games
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4.03 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Hardcore Gaming 101 Digest Vol. 1: Strider and Bionic Commando
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3.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Videogames
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3.72 avg rating — 68 ratings
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ZZT (Boss Fight Books, #3)
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4.01 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Bible Adventures (Boss Fight Books, #7)
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4.10 avg rating — 270 ratings
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EarthBound (Boss Fight Books, #1)
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3.66 avg rating — 473 ratings
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Baldur's Gate II (Boss Fight Books, #8)
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3.47 avg rating — 227 ratings
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Bits Sticks and Buttons. The Unofficial Guide to the 50 Greatest Arcade Games
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Fun Inc.: Why games are the 21st Century's most serious business
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3.41 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Which Console Rules the Next-Gen?: XBOX One Vs. PlayStation 4
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form
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3.86 avg rating — 674 ratings
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Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds-And How It Promises to Transform Society
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3.69 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Vault Dweller's Secrets: An Unauthorized Guide to Fallout 4
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4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Critical Path: How to Review Videogames for a Living
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4.04 avg rating — 124 ratings
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A Parent's Guide to Video Games
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4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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ZX Spectrum Games Code Club: Twenty fun games to code and learn
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4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Micro Kids: An 80s Adventure with ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and more
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3.88 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Promanager: PC Fútbol: Droga en el quiosco
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4.18 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Video Games and the Global South
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Inside Video Game Creation: Development Experts Share Their Stories
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The WoW Diary: A Journal of Computer Game Development
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4.46 avg rating — 362 ratings
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Once Upon Atari: How I made history by killing an industry
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4.12 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Fuck Yeah, Video Games: The Life and Extra Lives of a Professional Nerd
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4.54 avg rating — 464 ratings
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The Virtual Ninja Manifesto: Fighting Games, Martial Arts and Gamic Orientalism
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Game Artist: The Ultimate Career Guide
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Grails: The Cool, The Rare, and the Obscure of Arcade Games
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot
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3.67 avg rating — 284 ratings
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The X-Play Insider's Guide to Gaming
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Good Luck Have Fun: The Rise of eSports
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3.59 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Exodus to the Virtual World: How Online Fun Is Changing Reality
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3.33 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Sensei: Diálogos con maestros del videojuego japonés
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3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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A Newborn Business: Esports
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4.33 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
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4.17 avg rating — 1,643 ratings
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1000 Game Heroes
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3.63 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism
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3.70 avg rating — 207 ratings
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La aldea feliz - Un viaje a través de Animal Crossing
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
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