Nintendo invented Al Gore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
I would read a book by neo, when is that coming out?
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Nintendo invented Al Gore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
I would read a book by neo, when is that coming out?
I've read over 60% of those, and Opening the Xbox is my favorite. Anyone read the sequel? I can't find it in local book stores.
I didn't know there was one until now. The first was a great read, I'll be looking into this as soon as I actually have time to read for pleasure again. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Korly
It wouldn't be a big problem if it was just message board quacks no one took seriously. What bugs me is that so of them many work in the gaming media, and put their misinformation as facts in articles. I'm still irritated IGN never fixed all those things they claimed Nintendo invented in their top 25 franchises article a couple months ago. Why do they even let people email them when they won't fix their errors?Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
Didn't see Smartbomb mentioned yet:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...65125452&itm=3
Although one of the authors proved himself to be stupid when he laid out a plan to "save" the ESRB, the book itself is quite good.
Only ones I've read are Game Over ($2.00 edition) and High Score.
I was really into High Score as I was never (and still am not) into computer games. Then I got to the console part and noticed so many absolutely stupid mistakes that I surmised that everything else I had been reading was wrong as well and quickly forgot most of the info.
Some of that book's articles are online at next gen (like the ESRB one) if people are interested. http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...3960&Itemid=35Quote:
Originally Posted by Zerodash
I haven't read the actual book, though. My library does have it so I will check it out for the parts I haven't read.
Neo I'm gonna pop by Canada and go through your collection of everything. Hope you don't mind.
Well, uh here are the ones I have read and own but not all of them (there are others but I'd have to dig them out),:
Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Home VideoGames (1st Edition) - Leonard Herman
Inside Electronic Game Design - Arnie Katz
Apple Confidential - Owen Linzmayer
Hackers (1st Edition) - Steven Levy
Revolutionaries at Sony - Reiji Asakura
Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped An American Industry, Captured your Dollars and Enslaved Your Children (1st Edition) - David Sheff
Game Over: Press Start To Continue (Latest Edition) w/Added Chapter - David Sheff
Fire In the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer (Latest Edition) - Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine
Dungeons and Dreamers - Brad King and John Borland
Game Developer's Marketplace - Ben Sawyer
Game Developer's SourceBook - Ben Sawyer
Phoenix: The Rise and Fall of Video Games (2nd Edition) - Leonard Herman
Joystick Nation - J.C. Herz
Phoenix: The Rise and Fall of Video Games (Latest Edition) - Leonard Herman
The First Quarter - Steven L. Kent
Behind The Scenes At Sega: The Making of a Video Game - Nicholas Lavroff
Trigger Happy - Steven Poole
Zap: The Rise and Fall of Atari (1st Edition) - Scott Cohen
Hackers (2nd Edition) - Steven Levy
Official VideoGames and Pinball Book of World Records
Get In The Game!: Careers in the Game Industry - Marc Mencher
Sega Arcade History - Famitsu DC
Sega Consumer History - Famitsu DC
Game Design: The Art and Business of Creating Games - Bob Gates
Game Design: Theory and Practice - Richard Rouse III
Opening The Xbox - Dean Takahashi
Zap: The Rise and Fall of Atari (2nd Edition) - Scott Cohen
Hacking The Xbox: An Introduction To Reverse Engineering - Andrew "Bunnie" Huang
Masters of Doom - David Kushner
Hackers (3rd Edition) - Steven Levy
Postmortems From Game Developer Magazine - Austin Grossman
Family Computer 1983-1994
MegaDrive Encyclopedia
Confessions of The Game Doctor - Bill Kunkel
ABC To The VCS (Newest Edition) - Leonard Herman
The Encyclopedia of Game.Machines - Winnie Forster
VideoGames: In The Beginning - Ralph H. Baer
VideoGame Theory Reader - Mark J.P. Wolf
Blue Wizard Is About To Die - Seth Barkan
Official Price Guide To Classic Video Games - David Ellis
The Ultimate History of Video Games - Steven L. Kent
Arcade Fever - John Seller
SuperCade - van Burnham
High Score: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games (1st Edition) - Rusel DeMaria
High Score (2nd Edition) - Rusel DeMaria
Digital Press Collector's Guide 7 (Red Book)
Digital Press Advance Guide (Blue Book)
VideoGame Bible - Andy Slaven
Power-Up - Chris Kohler
The Making of Doom 3 - Steven L. Kent
Half-Life 2: Raising The Bar
The Art of Halo: Creating A Virtual World - Eric Trautmann
Chris Crawford On Game Design - Chris Crawford
Break Into The Games Industry - Ernest Adams
Game Art - Dave Morris
The Medium Of The Video Game - Mark J.P. Wolf
The Art of Computer Game Design: Reflections Of A Master Game Designer (1984) - Chris Crawford
The Xbox 360 Uncloaked - Dean Takahashi
Renegades Of The Empire: How Three Software Warriors Started A Revolution Behind The Walls Of Fortress Microsoft (About the Development of the DirectX software platform used in PC Games) - Michael Drummond
I'm an avid reader, but don't go out of my way to read about video games often. Steven L. Kent's The Ultimate History of Video Games is one of my favorite books though, regardless of subject matter.
For coffee table books, Arcade Fever is pretty good, but Supercade is the best. It has a high quality binding with high quality paper and tons upon tons of photos with quite a lot of informative adjoining text.