What are some good video game related books

Ready Player One
King of Kong
Snow Crash
Reamde

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>>385433342

Boss Fight books divided into two camps:

1: Nerd essays
2: Historical research books

Mega man3 falls into category 2.

>>385433794
>Ready Player One
>King of Kong
>Snow Crash
>Reamde

Fuck off fictionshit.

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>>385433794
>Ready Player One

>>385435205

>King of Kong
>fiction

lmao

Video Games You Will Never Play

>>385435112
the spelunky boss fight book is really interesting as the dev talks about game development and hidden design mechanics

>>385433342
Fall of reach
Ghost of onyx

the deus ex human revolution and mankind divided prequel books are good

Ashen's "Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of" was a pretty big and surprising disappointment.

>>385435205
>>385435415
Brainlets

>>385435937
Oh really? How so?

metal gear solid novelizations

ready player one is single-handedly the worst book i've ever read, right behind the kingkiller books

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>>385436087
>defending "let me gloat about my power-level: the book"
>book nearly entirely made up of references
>all basic bitch entry level shit references
>literally relies on the reader getting a hit of feel good brain chemicals when they recognize a reference.

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>>385433794

>Snowcrash

Where the fuck do they even play Vidya in that?

>>385433342
The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers.

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>>385436572
>The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers.

Got tons of neat tidbits, including that Fujiwara was against making Mega man 2.

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>>385433342

>>385436102
About one third of it are backer names, blank pages and thanks, a lot of the pages only consist of huge images of the games and thick borders made of sprites.
The actual content of each of the articles about the games wouldn't be enough for two minute reviews and most of the times basically consist of "looks shite, sounds makes your ears bleed, controls awful"
This honestly doesn't really work that well if you can't witness the games in motion like on Youtube and shit starts to get repetitive and boring after a while.
The best part was probably the chapter about SQIJ! where he showed the godawful source code and it's crazy background stuff like this that is sorely missing from most of the book.

Seriously, if you except dozens of stories of this caliber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouvi-fwrfIY
then look elsewhere - you won't find them in here.

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>>385436496
>old man giving away his vast fortune to the winner of a video game tournament
>also your best friend is secretly a girl and they're hot and also into you

>>385436529
The whole book is Second Life

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Reading this right now. It's pretty well-written, though at the same time I'm skeptical about how objective it is as a historical source. It tries so damn hard to make Nintendo the bad guys.

Hopefully Seth Rogen gets off his lazy stoner ass and makes the movie already.

stay a while and listen

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>>385433794
>Ready Player One