A Brief History of Video Games

Overall, A Brief History of Video Games is an enjoyable and informative read. As suggested by its title, it does not go into great depth on any one era, but rather briefly touches on many of gaming's important milestones and landmark franchises.The time spent going over specific franchises and what set them apart was my favorite throughout the book. However, this was the one area of the book where I found myself disappointed, and the reason for me dropping one star. The author makes brief shifts from objectively going over a game's mechanics and reception, and instead giving personal opinions on whether the game was good or not. While it is understandably difficult to separate one's personal views when anaylizing a medium like video games, the book's later chapters have several instances of this, leaving a bad taste in my mouth when I finished the book.Despite my one criticism, the book is still an excellent read, and one I'd recommend to anyone interested in learning about gaming's past.

Of all the things that was wonderful about this book, for all that's said about the video game industry being so young. there's tons of history and changes that didn't happen overnight. From the 50s to now, it was fascinating to see how most of video games started from the idea of fun and play. It never started with one person, but it was amazing to read about those 'one person' people who made big imprints to the industry we know and whine about today! I was able to learn about the video game craze in 1980s Europe and discovering a huge chunk of that history goes woefully unreported and barely register a blips. It was nice to know that it wasn't 'all Nintendo, all the time'.Nearly every sector gets a writeup that comes from a writer who gives it the utmost respect the people and their creations deserve. Consoles, PCs, handhelds, smartphones, arcades, indies, big publishers, DLC, free to play: for as brief (it's in the title) as the coverage a lot of these sectors get, they hold a bunch of impact and may even jog some warm memories about those days.Coming at a time when the industry has lost one of its biggest icons (Satoru Iwata), it was great not to just remember the works we have been giving, but the people who helped shaped it and make it happen.No gamer should be without this book

Awesome, awesome book. But I'm deducting a star because there were very obvious issues with the binding. Honestly kinda surprised it was shipped out in that condition.

This book does what it promises. And that is to give the reader a brief look into the history of Video Games. However i think that they streched the term brief a bit since this book contains 368 pages worth of content. Despite that i still like this book a lot and will surely be reading through it whenever i can.

This review isn't about the content - its about the way the book is published. Its small pages with small type and fairly thick. The type runs so close to the inside margins that you have to pry the book apart and still cant comfortably read it. While the subject and the writing seem to be reasonable from what I can read - its too uncomfortable to even try to read the rest.

Fascinating read - I recommend it to all gamers (and non-gamers) who want to understand how the world of gaming came to be

This was a Christmas gift for my son. He really liked it!

great book.

Bien que l’ordre chronologique est parfois compliqué à suivre en sein des chapitres, ce livre décrit de manière agréable l’histoire du jeu vidéo avec des anecdotes / citations.