[VIDEO] Books About Video Games Are Great! Part 1 of 2: 27 Video Game Books.
I love video game books. Books about video games are more common than you might think. In hopes of spreading the good word about video game books, I list off half of my collection (part 2 can be viewed here). Here I talk about the narrative nonfiction video game books that I own, including:
- 0:54 A bunch of Boss Fight Books
- 2:01 Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack by Andrew Schartmann
- 2:48 Shigeru Miyamoto by Jennifer Dewinter
- 2:59 Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation by Blake J. Harris
- 3:33 Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America by Jeff Ryan
- 4:18 The Tetris Effect: The Game That Hypnotized the World by Dan Ackerman
- 4:53 Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner
- Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell
- Gamelife: A Memoir by Michael W. Clune
- Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art and Soul in Video Games by Walt Williams
- 6:40 Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate by Zoë Quinn
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