So I was looking at getting some books to learn more knowledge of the history of the video game industry. Anyone have any recommendations they could give?
I'm still reading it on and off at the moment, but Masters of Doom is quite good. It has a more narrow focus, but it is still good because:
It covers the personalities and the people who eventually founded id. It's interesting to here about how dedicated/crazy they were at times during that period.
It goes into the PC market at the time and talked about a lot of stuff I never really heard about.
It goes into some tech details. Like they talk about engines, graphics, etc. and the process of actually making a game.
It talks about video games! Again, I'm still early on, but they are starting to make the Commander Keen games.
That's really the only one I have, but it is a good place to start from what I've read so far.
I'm reading A Brief History of Video Games by Rich Stanton.
Just came out this year so it covers from Tennis for Two up to current generation consoles and hits every point that matters in the history of the medium I think.
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