The History of Video Games was $0.25 on Kindle format, and at that price I decided to buy it and read it. This is an astonishingly shallow history of the video game industry, covering a lot of material but in very cursory detail. For instance, the list of famous people is really short, and coverage of how the Sony Playstation came to a few paragraphs, much shorter than even the wikipedia article!
There's a list of top ten games for every decade, but the author admits that the selection was pretty subjective.
I suppose this book would be a good starting off point for googling and searching deeper on any topic that interested you, but I'm not sure it's very useful otherwise. For a quarter it's not a bad read, but it felt like a weekend project of a book rather than something someone poured their heart and soul into.
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