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History of videogames (overall history)

Author(s) : Daniel Ichbiah
Editor : Editions Générales First
Publication date : 02-05-1997
Language : french

The first edition of a book that will later become the french written reference about the history of videogames under the title "La Saga des Jeux Vidéo". This must-have book has known 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 1st edition of the book is presented here, dealing with history from Pong to Ultima Online.