File this blog under horn-tooting, but oh well. Game Informer magazine just published its Top 10 Videogame Books list and my book, Masters of Doom, is #1. Quite an honor, and especially to be included along with books like Snow Crash. It still amazes me that there aren't more books on gaming, but I guess that's just a sign of how young this medium is relative to other industries.
Here's the whole GI list:
1. Masters of Doom
2. Phoenix The Fall & Rise of Videogames
3. Snow Crash
4. The Ultimate History of Video Games
5. Confessions of the Game Doctor
6. Opening the Xbox
7. Lucky Wander Boy
8. Game Over: Press Start to Continue
9. A Theory of Fun for Game Design
10. High Score: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games
Comments (1)
As the author of the #5 book on the GI list I certainly can't complain about my positioning as I would have rated books 1-4 ahead of mine anyway. I was a little surprised not to see "Hackers", but while there haven't been that many memorable books written about gaming and its culture, we do have non-fiction, histories, memoirs and original novels on that list and I think that's a fairly impressive range of content.
Posted by Bill Kunkel | May 24, 2008 2:43 AM
Posted on May 24, 2008 02:43