The Ultimate History of Video Games
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The Ultimate History of Video Games
| Full title | The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokémon and Beyond |
|---|---|
| Author | Steven L. Kent |
| Published | 2001 |
| Pages | 608 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Kent’s oral-history-driven account of the game business from the arcade era through Atari’s collapse, Nintendo’s rescue of the console market, and the Sony–Sega–Nintendo wars of the 1990s — the usual answer when someone asks for one book on games. |
Where I heard about it
- @WillManidis’s thread — a reply to his question “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” in the thread, June 2025. The full list of replies lives on what is the single best book… (tweet).
Connections
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Gaming — the industry.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.