Books on gaming history

[Gamereviewgod]

I'm making a checklist to make sure I've got any and all books on the history of the industry. Am I complete?

1. Phoenix
2. Game Over
3. First Quarter
4. High Score.
5. Trigger Happy
6. Revolutionaries at Sony
7. Joystick Nation

Am I missing anything?

[davidleeroth]

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/view...=books+history

[rolenta]

I'm making a checklist to make sure I've got any and all books on the history of the industry. Am I complete?

1. Phoenix
2. Game Over
3. First Quarter
4. High Score.
5. Trigger Happy
6. Revolutionaries at Sony
7. Joystick Nation

Am I missing anything?

8. Supercade

[SoulBlazer]

First Quarter has been replaced by a more updated book, The Ultimate History of Video Games.

I highly suggest both that book and Phoenix as the two best out there.

[kevincure]

Videogame books (history / academic) as of 2 months ago. I've listed the authors, and my list also had the "online going rate" to the right, so I could try and pick it up cheaper if I found it at a used book store. Books I own are listed first:

VIDEOGAME BOOKS:
Trigger Happy / Poole
Psychopedia / DigitPress
DigitPress Guide 7 / DigitPress
Videogame Bible / Slaven
1000 Game Heroes / Choquet
High Score! / DeMaria Wilson
Game On / Lucien King
Ultimate History of VideoGames / Kent
Supercade / Burnham
*Videogame Theory Reader / 23
1UP Issue 3

NEED
Arcade Fever / Sellers / 13
Blue Wizard is About to Die / http://www.twhi.org/bluewizard.htm / 15
Chris Crawford on Game Design / Crawford / 28
Computer as Theatre / Laurel / 27
Cybertext / Espen Aarseth / 12
Digital Play / Stephen Kline / 25
Dungeons and Dreamers / King / 17.50
Electronic Plastic / Gielens / 50
Game Over / Sheff / 15
Gender Inclusive Game Design / Ray / 40
Hacking the Xbox / Huang / 17.50
Hamlet on the Holodeck / Murray / 22
Homo Ludens / Huizinga / 20
Know the Score / Skurzynski / 1
Lucky Wander Boy / Weiss / 12
Masters of Doom / Kushner / 17.50
Medium of the Videogame / Wolf / 13
Mind at Play / Loftus / 8
Monster Gaming / Sawyer / 17.50
More than a Game / Atkins / 20
Nature of Computer Games / Myers / 25
Opening the Xbox / Takahashi / 10
Pause & Effect / Meadows / 32
Phoenix / Herman / 25
Pilgrim in the Microworld / Sudnow / 3
Revolutionaries at Sony / Asakura / 60
Rules of Play / Salen / 50
Screenplay / Geoff King / 20
Screen Play / Sullivan / 19
Visual Digital Culture / Darley / 25
What Video Games Have To Teach Us About Lit. and Learning / Gee / 13
Zap / Cohen / 21

There are a number of other titles I've seen in Italian, German, French and Japanese, among others.