This tiny 50 pages books aims to tell the history of the Grand Theft Auto (1997-2015) series of games. While the book offers many beautiful pictures, the text is unfortunately not up to the task. First of all, the books "forgets" about the first two episodes (barely mentioned), and begins his story with Grand Theft Auto III (Rockstar Games, 2001). Each title is then presented over a few pages. But the text only presents some numbers and a summary of each episodes features, without ever
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Keywords : history, grand theft auto, gta, rockstar
An overall presentation of the various jobs related to videogames, splitted in two parts: - The professionnals of game design:The AAA videogame industryThe small and average sized studios (AA budget games) The "indies" - Others videogames related jobs:Journalist / YoutuberSalesmanProfessionnal player (pro-gamer) Events organizer -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides)
Keywords : videogames, jobs, industry, work, indies
A "quick" presentation of the overall history of videogames, from 1952 to 2013. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides)
Keywords : videogames, history, consoles generations, firsts videogames
This book tells the story of Dungeons & Dragons, a game that gave birth to the "pen and paper role playing" genre, highly popular in the 80's and 90's. The book details the origins of the game, co-designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Anerson in 1974, alongside with the epic tale of TSR, the company created by Gygax to sell this innovative game. The book mix chapters about the history of the game with more personal chapters, where the author remembers his owns role-playing sessions. Whil
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Keywords : dungeons & dragons, gary gygax, dave anerson, tsr, pen-and-paper role playing game, history, greyhawk, blackmoor
The biography of Alain Huyghues -Lacour, a famous french journalist specialized in videogames, better known as "AHL." This book tells us the quite unusual life of a young musician who ended up being a videogame journalist, with unique in-between jobs such as being the personal secretary of the singer Demis Roussos. This book is divided in very short chapters (4-8 pages) detailling both the musical career of Alain, and the career of AHL in the world of french videogaming press. And it's
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Keywords : AHL, biography, press, france, joystick, joypad, console+, tilt
This book attempts to give a quite unique approach on the history of videogames: instead of interviewing game designers about how they created famous games, the author have collected the memories of numerous anonymous videogames players in France. The book is focused on the 8 / 16 bits era (i.e. from the middle of the 80's to the beginning of the 90's). The author, Florent Gorges, have written a very touching book here. While you'll read it quickly, it'll touch you with a deep feeling of nostalg
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Keywords : players, memories, 8 bits, 16 bits, consoles, computers
A book chapter (in french) about the relations between the "Free Software" philosophy and the history of videogames. The book is an "open-book" (as in "open source"), freely available on its official website.
Keywords : free software, open source, video games, history
The biography of Sébastien Pissavy, founder of the famous french gaming news website "jeuxvideo.com." The author tells us about the birth of this website and the company behind it, "l'Odyssée Interactive." It all began with the "ETJAV", the french videogames cheat codes encyclopedia, which was distributed to friends and through some magazines. Then came the ETAJV minitel service, alongside with the founding of a company that will later create a website
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Keywords : jeuxvideo.com, sébastien pissavy, biography, etajv, france, odyssee interactive
This bible is dedicated to the Super Nintendo home console (also known as Super Famicom and SNES). The first part of the book tells the history of this console through a quite detailed chapter featuring a lot of pictures. The second and main part of the book is dedicated to a list of every game ever released for this console. Each one of the 2000 games is presented through a couple of screenshots alongside with a small description text. The book then details a selection of "coll
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Keywords : bible, history, encyclopedia, super nintendo, super famicom, snes
Games History is a series of magazines in a book-like format (similar to Pix'n Love and IG), with 200 pages dedicated to a defined genre of video games. This third issue is focused on the history of racing games on home consoles. The book starts with a brief general history of racing games on arcade cabinets (70-80's) and on 90's home consoles. It then goes into more details about popular series such as Gran Turismo, Forza Motorsport, Ridge Racer, Need for Speed, Burnout, Formula One, Colin M
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Keywords : history, racing, console, video game, car, images