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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 11,958 ratings — published 2014
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,341 ratings — published 2011
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 24,163 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 — 2,999 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 — 6,230 ratings — published 2024
Doom Guy: Life in First Person (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,377 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 4.00 — 445 ratings — published 2004
Replay: The History of Video Games (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,492 ratings — published 2010
Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,572 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 — 19,980 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 3.79 — 180 ratings — published 2022
Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 540 ratings — published 2025
Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 3,584 ratings — published 2020
Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,898 ratings — published 2021
Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft, and More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 640 ratings — published 2016
Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom from Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's Legendary CEO (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 3,380 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 — 890 ratings — published 2016
Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video Games (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.86 — 636 ratings — published
Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,446 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 — 1,272 ratings — published
Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 3.29 — 239 ratings — published 2017
A Brief History of Video Games (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 127 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 3.78 — 126 ratings — published 2009
Zap!: The Rise and Fall of Atari (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as video-game-history)
avg rating 3.30 — 81 ratings — published 1984
Tetris: The Games People Play (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,505 ratings — published 2016
Atari Inc.: Business is Fun (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 130 ratings — published 2012
A Mind Forever Voyaging: A History of Storytelling in Video Games (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 146 ratings — published 2012
Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History (Relations)
by (shelved 1 time as video-game-history)
avg rating 3.63 — 62 ratings — published 1995
Digital Games as History: How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice (Routledge Advances in Game Studies)
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avg rating 4.18 — 22 ratings — published 2016
The First World War in Computer Games (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 2015
Atari 2600/7800: A Visual Compendium (ebook)
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avg rating 4.41 — 22 ratings — published
Joysticks to Haptics: A comprehensive celebration of video game controllers from indie journal publisher Lost In Cult. Perfect Christmas gift for gamers and fans (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 65 ratings — published 2006
The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (American Empire Project)
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avg rating 3.40 — 134 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 — 104 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 3.92 — 38 ratings — published 2015
The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers: Volume 1 (Werewolves of Yosemite Book 2)
by (shelved 1 time as video-game-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 174 ratings — published 2014
Gamers at Work: Stories Behind the Games People Play (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 138 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 — 8,544 ratings — published 1984
Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught a Generation to Catch Them All (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 192 ratings — published 2022
Prepare to Meet Thy Doom: And More True Gaming Stories (Audiobook)
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avg rating 3.23 — 419 ratings — published
The Greatest Stories Ever Played: Video Games and the Evolution of Storytelling (Game On, 2)
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avg rating 3.72 — 175 ratings — published 2022
The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 170 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 — 372 ratings — published 2022
