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History of videogames (overall history)

Author(s) : Daniel Ichbiah
Editor : Pocket
Publication date : 09-24-1998
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 2nd edition of the book is presented here, covering from Pong to the first online games over Internet.