Replay: The History of Video Games
10 best books like Replay: The History of Video Games (Tristan Donovan): Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation, Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America, Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World, The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World, All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture, This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier...
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
| Author | David Kushner |
| ISBN | 0812972155 |
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream,...
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
| Author | Blake J. Harris |
| ISBN | 0062276697 |
Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized...
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
| Author | Jeff Ryan |
| ISBN | 1591844053 |
The story of Nintendo's rise and the beloved icon who made it possible.
Nintendo has continually set the standard for video-game innovation in America, starting in 1981 with a plucky hero who jumped over barrels to save a girl from an ape.
The saga of Mario, the portly plumber who became...
Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World
| Author | David Sheff |
| ISBN | 0966961706 |
The riveting story of Nintendo's conquest of the interactive entertainment industry offering true tales filled with cocky arrogance, confidence and international intrigue that rival any novel. Whether it is recounting the struggles over the game"Tetris," offering blow-by-blow narrative of...
| Author | Steven L. Kent |
| ISBN | 0761536434 |
Inside the Games You Grew Up with but Never Forgot
With all the whiz, bang, pop, and shimmer of a glowing arcade. The Ultimate History of Video Games reveals everything you ever wanted to know and more about the unforgettable games that changed the world, the visionaries who made them, and the fanatics...
| Author | Harold Goldberg |
| ISBN | 0307463559 |
Through the stories of gaming's greatest innovations and most beloved creations, journalist Harold Goldberg captures the creativity, controversy--and passion--behind the videogame's meteoric rise to the top of the pop-culture pantheon.
Over the last fifty years, video games have...
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
| Author | Kathleen McAuliffe |
| ISBN | 0544192222 |
Based on a wildly popular Atlantic article: an astonishing investigation into the world of microbes, and the myriad ways they control how other creatures — including humans — act, feel, and think
As we are now discovering, parasites — microbes that cannot thrive and reproduce...
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
| Author | Steven Levy |
| ISBN | 0141000511 |
A mere fifteen years ago, computer nerds were seen as marginal weirdos, outsiders whose world would never resonate with the mainstream. That was before one pioneering work documented the underground computer revolution that was about to change our world forever. With groundbreaking profiles of...
The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
| Author | Kevin D. Mitnick |
| ISBN | 0316380504 |
Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker, teaches you easy cloaking and counter-measures for citizens and consumers in the age of Big Brother and Big Data.
Like it or not, your every move is being watched and analyzed. Consumer's identities are being stolen, and a person's every step...
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
| Author | Tom Bissell |
| ISBN | 0307378705 |
Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent untold hours in front of his various video game consoles, playing titles such as Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, BioShock, and Oblivion for, literally, days....
Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto
| Author | David Kushner |
| ISBN | 0470936371 |
Inside the making of a videogame that defined a generation: Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest and most controversial videogame franchises of all time. Since its first release in 1997, GTA has pioneered the use of everything from 3D graphics to the voices of top Hollywood actors and...
English History Made Brief, Irreverent and Pleasurable
| Author | Lacey Baldwin Smith |
| ISBN | 0897335473 |
Here at last is a history of England that is designed to entertain as well as inform and that will delight the armchair traveler, the tourist or just about anyone interested in history. No people have engendered quite so much acclaim or earned so much censure as the English: extolled as the Athenians of...
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
| Author | Mark Miodownik |
| ISBN | 0544236041 |
A New York Times Bestseller
An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science
Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? Why does any material look and behave...
| Author | James Mahaffey |
| ISBN | 1681774216 |
Whether you are a scientist or a poet, pro-nuclear energy or staunch opponent, conspiracy theorist or pragmatist, James Mahaffey's books have served to open up the world of nuclear science like never before. With clear explanations of some of the most complex scientific endeavors in history, Mahaffey's...
Ancient Civilizations of North America
For the past few hundred years, most of what we've been taught about the native cultures of North America came from reports authored by the conquerors and colonizers who destroyed them. Now - with the technological advances of modern archaeology and a new perspective on world history - we are finally...
Out of Spite, Out of Mind
When you discover the world is a computer program, and you figure out that by altering the code you can time travel and perform acts that seem like magic, what can possibly go wrong?
Pretty much everything.
Just ask Brit, who has jumped around in time with such abandon that she has to coexist...
Bluefishing: The Art of Making Things Happen
| Author | Steve Sims |
| ISBN | 1501152513 |
The man who created Bluefish, the internationally famous company that makes once in a lifetime events happen for the rich and famous reveals to the rest of us his trade secrets for making things happen.
Steve Sims’s day job is to make the impossible possible. With his help and expertise, his...
