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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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4.13 avg rating — 3,029 ratings
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The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 2: Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and the Billion-Dollar Battle to Shape Modern Gaming
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4.11 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World
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4.11 avg rating — 1,583 ratings
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Nintendo Magic: Winning the Videogame Wars
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3.59 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Arcade Mania: The Turbo-Charged World of Japan's Game Centers
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3.67 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Revolutionaries at Sony: The Making of the Sony Playstation and the Visionaries Who Conquered the World of Video Games
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3.70 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
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3.83 avg rating — 5,392 ratings
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Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West
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4.04 avg rating — 391 ratings
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High Score! The Illustrated History of Electronic Games
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3.95 avg rating — 244 ratings
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Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture
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3.59 avg rating — 897 ratings
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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
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4.20 avg rating — 24,566 ratings
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Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
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4.05 avg rating — 8,074 ratings
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
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3.97 avg rating — 12,049 ratings
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The Secret History of Mac Gaming
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4.23 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
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4.30 avg rating — 20,171 ratings
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Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution
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4.07 avg rating — 156 ratings
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The Xbox 360 Uncloaked:: The Real Story Behind Microsoft's Next-Generation Video Game Console
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4.03 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts
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3.89 avg rating — 121 ratings
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The Beep Book: Documenting the History of Game Sound
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The History of Nintendo (1980-1991) - The Game & Watch
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3.97 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Replay: The History of Video Games
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4.04 avg rating — 1,507 ratings
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Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
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3.52 avg rating — 3,715 ratings
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Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
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3.79 avg rating — 8,361 ratings
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Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
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4.18 avg rating — 3,660 ratings
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Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack
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3.73 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
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4.18 avg rating — 3,288 ratings
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Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames (Volume 53) (Electronic Mediations)
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3.54 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught a Generation to Catch Them All
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4.14 avg rating — 198 ratings
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The Making of Karateka
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4.15 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Katamari Damacy (Boss Fight Books, #17)
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3.78 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Bible Adventures (Boss Fight Books, #7)
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4.09 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Super Mario Bros. 3 (Boss Fight Books, #13)
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3.76 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Shadow of the Colossus (Boss Fight Books, #10)
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3.67 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Super Mario Bros. 2 (Boss Fight Books, #6)
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3.52 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Metal Gear Solid (Boss Fight Books, #9)
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3.58 avg rating — 488 ratings
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Chrono Trigger (Boss Fight Books, #2)
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3.38 avg rating — 486 ratings
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EarthBound (Boss Fight Books, #1)
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3.62 avg rating — 589 ratings
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Minesweeper (Boss Fight Books, #31)
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3.91 avg rating — 109 ratings
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PaRappa the Rapper (Boss Fight Books, #30)
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4.19 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Day of the Tentacle (Boss Fight Books, #32)
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3.55 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Spelunky (Boss Fight Books, #11)
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4.44 avg rating — 1,715 ratings
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Mega Man 3 (Boss Fight Books, #14)
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3.68 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Final Fantasy V (Boss Fight Books, #18)
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4.19 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Kingdom Hearts II (Boss Fight Books, #16)
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3.54 avg rating — 235 ratings
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ZZT (Boss Fight Books, #3)
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3.99 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Silent Hill 2 (Boss Fight Books, #27)
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4.02 avg rating — 288 ratings
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Shovel Knight (Boss Fight Books #19)
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3.91 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Jagged Alliance 2 (Boss Fight Books, #5)
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4.02 avg rating — 245 ratings
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World of Warcraft (Boss Fight Books, #12)
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3.67 avg rating — 196 ratings
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NBA Jam (Boss Fight Books #21)
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4.35 avg rating — 317 ratings
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Galaga (Boss Fight Books, #4)
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3.07 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Baldur's Gate II (Boss Fight Books, #8)
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3.44 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Gamish: A Graphic History of Gaming
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4.05 avg rating — 465 ratings
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Tetris: The Games People Play
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3.80 avg rating — 3,527 ratings
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The Comic Book Story of Video Games: The Incredible History of the Electronic Gaming Revolution
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3.69 avg rating — 579 ratings
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Game Boy World: 1989: A History of Nintendo Game Boy, Vol. I (Unofficial and Unauthorized)
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4.05 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Video Games
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3.72 avg rating — 72 ratings
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