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History of videogames (overall history)

Author(s) : Daniel Ichbiah
Editor : Vuibert
Publication date : 02-19-2004
Language : french

The french written reference about the history of videogames. This must-have book has know five different editions between 1997 and 2012. It details the story of many famous videogames thanks to interviews with their designers: Pong, Tomb Raider, Tetris, Doom, Myst, Sim City, etc. The book also have a background story with the life of Philippe Ulrich, famous french game designer and founder of Cryo, who have lived through all the stages of the videogames history. A very interesting read with a lot of content. This book is very good addition to "The Ultimate History of Videogames", but also it's a very good starting point to study the history of videogames if you can read french! The 3rd edition of the book is presented here, ranging from Pong to Playstation 2.