A History of Video Games in 64 Objects

I bought the book as a gift for as 13 year old. I have been paging through it prior to wrapping it and I have to say I am happy with my purchase. The book has a cool cover that grabs your interest. Each chapter focuses on a historical video game and has one or two cool pictures and a few pages explaining the origin and importance of each game. This review isn't very specific but I can sum this up best by saying it's cool and a good value for what I paid.

At first I was a bit sceptical about the book (the uninspired cover didn't help, too) titled with "hall of fame" and a suspicous amount of randomly (at first glance) chosen topics, but it is so well written and filled with just the right amount of detail that keeps you reading (2-3 pages per topic). It is called "A history of Video Games" and not "THE History", thus picking some well-known but also a lot of not-so-known pieces of history (may it be games or even devices) that influenced the video game industry - it doesn't claim to be a complete overview! And you'll find for sure some games you may never heard of or you for sure will read about some flickering details you didn't knew on topics you thought you're very familiar with. And even those games you know but not interested in are very nice to read - there is not a single boring chapter in it.I really hope for a second part, it was real thrilling drive reading the book and I'm quite sure The Strong Museum's collection has a lot more video game history diamonds to entertain the willing video game history reader (but please update the cover with a more pleasing image). Thank you for this great book.

Retro book great for dad's!

I found this book to be very good for the content it had but overall mediocre due to the content it left out. Not sure how someone can publish a History of Video games by leaving out games that influenced so many things about the video game industry today. To name a few...the Ultima Series (the book maybe a single sentence on Lord British), the Wizardry Series, System Shock, the Castle Woflenstein(1981), Wing Commander, Goldeneye, (VR) Virtual Reality, etc etc. The list could go on and on.