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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 11,886 ratings — published 2014
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,312 ratings — published 2011
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,843 ratings — published 2017
The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 2,972 ratings — published 2001
Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,889 ratings — published 2024
Doom Guy: Life in First Person (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,307 ratings — published 2023
Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 444 ratings — published 2004
Replay: The History of Video Games (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,479 ratings — published 2010
Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,568 ratings — published 1993
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,866 ratings — published 2003
Shareware Heroes: The renegades who redefined gaming at the dawn of the internet (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 176 ratings — published 2022
Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 450 ratings — published 2025
Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,524 ratings — published 2020
Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 7,773 ratings — published 2021
Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft, and More (Game On, 1)
by (shelved 2 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 635 ratings — published 2016
Ask Iwata (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 3,331 ratings — published 2021
The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 3.71 — 883 ratings — published 2016
Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video Games (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.85 — 626 ratings — published
Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,396 ratings — published
The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,260 ratings — published
Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 3.29 — 238 ratings — published 2017
A Brief History of Video Games (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 125 ratings — published 2015
Vintage Games: An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario, and the Most Influential Games of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 127 ratings — published 2009
Zap!: The Rise and Fall of Atari (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.30 — 81 ratings — published 1984
Tetris: The Games People Play (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,482 ratings — published 2016
Atari Inc.: Business is Fun (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 130 ratings — published 2012
The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (American Empire Project)
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avg rating 3.39 — 132 ratings — published 2008
Street Fighter World Warrior Encyclopedia: World Tour Edition (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
It's Not All Fun and Games (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
The Secret History of Mac Gaming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 103 ratings — published
High Score! Expanded: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games 3rd Edition (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Japanese Video Game Obscurities (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.16 — 44 ratings — published
The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers Volume 3: Monochrome (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 13 ratings — published
The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers: Volume 2 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 37 ratings — published 2015
The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers: Volume 1 (Werewolves of Yosemite Book 2)
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avg rating 3.67 — 173 ratings — published 2014
Gamers at Work: Stories Behind the Games People Play (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 136 ratings — published 2012
Arcade Mania: The Turbo-Charged World of Japan's Game Centers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 179 ratings — published 2008
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 8,508 ratings — published 1984
Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught a Generation to Catch Them All (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 184 ratings — published 2022
Prepare to Meet Thy Doom: And More True Gaming Stories (Audiobook)
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avg rating 3.23 — 417 ratings — published
The Greatest Stories Ever Played: Video Games and the Evolution of Storytelling (Game On, 2)
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avg rating 3.71 — 173 ratings — published 2022
The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 164 ratings — published
Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 354 ratings — published 2022
The Game Console: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 385 ratings — published 2018
Creating Q*bert and Other Classic Video Arcade Games (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 58 ratings — published
The Console Chronicles: A Celebration of Console Gaming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 21 ratings — published 2024
A Handheld History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 69 ratings — published
50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.67 — 130 ratings — published 2023
BioWare: Stories and Secrets from 25 Years of Game Development (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 84 ratings — published
Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 13 ratings — published
