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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
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4.29 avg rating — 20,017 ratings
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
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3.97 avg rating — 11,976 ratings
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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
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4.20 avg rating — 24,256 ratings
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Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
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3.79 avg rating — 8,341 ratings
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Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
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3.83 avg rating — 5,355 ratings
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Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
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3.52 avg rating — 3,704 ratings
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Replay: The History of Video Games
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4.04 avg rating — 1,495 ratings
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The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World
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4.13 avg rating — 3,006 ratings
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Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 446 ratings
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Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World
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4.11 avg rating — 1,573 ratings
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Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
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4.05 avg rating — 7,944 ratings
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture
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3.59 avg rating — 890 ratings
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Gamers at Work: Stories Behind the Games People Play
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3.69 avg rating — 138 ratings
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What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
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3.90 avg rating — 1,329 ratings
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High Score! The Illustrated History of Electronic Games
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3.95 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Mega Man 3 (Boss Fight Books, #14)
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3.68 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Katamari Damacy (Boss Fight Books, #17)
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3.79 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Chrono Trigger (Boss Fight Books, #2)
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3.39 avg rating — 480 ratings
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Metal Gear Solid (Boss Fight Books, #9)
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3.59 avg rating — 486 ratings
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Super Mario Bros. 2 (Boss Fight Books, #6)
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3.52 avg rating — 389 ratings
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Jagged Alliance 2 (Boss Fight Books, #5)
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4.02 avg rating — 242 ratings
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The Micro Kids: An 80s Adventure with ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and more
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3.96 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Ultimate Nintendo: Guide to the NES Library, 1985–1995
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4.47 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World
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3.71 avg rating — 895 ratings
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Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
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3.61 avg rating — 396 ratings
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How to Do Things with Videogames
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3.62 avg rating — 493 ratings
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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System
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4.06 avg rating — 813 ratings
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Arcade Mania: The Turbo-Charged World of Japan's Game Centers
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3.66 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames
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3.84 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft, and More
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3.96 avg rating — 639 ratings
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Video Game Storytelling: What Every Developer Needs to Know about Narrative Techniques
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Galaga (Boss Fight Books, #4)
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3.09 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
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4.18 avg rating — 3,599 ratings
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The Making of Prince of Persia
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4.10 avg rating — 1,904 ratings
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Shadow of the Colossus (Boss Fight Books, #10)
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3.68 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Super Mario Bros. 3 (Boss Fight Books, #13)
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3.77 avg rating — 296 ratings
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Continue? The Boss Fight Books Anthology
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2.99 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Spelunky (Boss Fight Books, #11)
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4.44 avg rating — 1,696 ratings
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Tetris: The Games People Play
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3.80 avg rating — 3,511 ratings
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NBA Jam (Boss Fight Books #21)
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4.34 avg rating — 312 ratings
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Bible Adventures (Boss Fight Books, #7)
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4.09 avg rating — 335 ratings
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EarthBound (Boss Fight Books, #1)
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3.63 avg rating — 579 ratings
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ZZT (Boss Fight Books, #3)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Réquiem para el Jefe Final. Antología de la música en los videojuegos
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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution
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3.48 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment
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4.17 avg rating — 6,304 ratings
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Nintendo Magic: Winning the Videogame Wars
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3.59 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto
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3.60 avg rating — 2,036 ratings
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The WoW Diary: A Journal of Computer Game Development
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4.45 avg rating — 620 ratings
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The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games (Playful Thinking Series)
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3.64 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Baldur's Gate II (Boss Fight Books, #8)
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3.45 avg rating — 278 ratings
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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die
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3.83 avg rating — 588 ratings
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Fuck Yeah, Video Games: The Life and Extra Lives of a Professional Nerd
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4.49 avg rating — 681 ratings
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Uncertainty in Games
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3.53 avg rating — 363 ratings
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Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on the People who Play Them
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4.02 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Silent Hill: The Terror Engine
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3.63 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past
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4.26 avg rating — 1,373 ratings
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The State of Play: Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds (Ex Machina: Law, Technology, and Society, 2)
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3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings
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My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World
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3.74 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Stay Awhile and Listen: Book I - How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire
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3.82 avg rating — 622 ratings
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ZX Spectrum Games Code Club: Twenty fun games to code and learn
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3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Creating Q*bert and Other Classic Video Arcade Games
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4.17 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Game Sound: An Introduction to the History, Theory, and Practice of Video Game Music and Sound Design
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4.06 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Promanager: PC Fútbol: Droga en el quiosco
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4.15 avg rating — 108 ratings
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The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 2: Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and the Billion-Dollar Battle to Shape Modern Gaming
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4.13 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Playing with Sound: A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video Games
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3.84 avg rating — 31 ratings
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How to Talk about Videogames (Volume 47) (Electronic Mediations)
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3.65 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Anime and the Visual Novel: Narrative Structure, Design and Play at the Crossroads of Animation and Computer Games
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3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Contra and Other Konami Classics
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3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West
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4.05 avg rating — 375 ratings
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The State of Play: Creators and Critics on Video Game Culture
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3.61 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Prepare to Meet Thy Doom: And More True Gaming Stories
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3.23 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution
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4.06 avg rating — 153 ratings
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The Xbox 360 Uncloaked:: The Real Story Behind Microsoft's Next-Generation Video Game Console
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4.03 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts
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3.90 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Dreamcast Worlds: a Design History
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3.29 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Hardcoregaming101.net Presents: The Guide to Classic Graphic Adventures
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4.21 avg rating — 225 ratings
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The History of Nintendo (1980-1991) - The Game & Watch
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3.97 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Beep Book: Documenting the History of Game Sound
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Pilgrim in the Microworld
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3.78 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Delay: Paying Attention to Energy Mechanics
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3.50 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Anatomy of Super Mario (The Anatomy of Games Volume 1)
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3.69 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack
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3.72 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
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4.18 avg rating — 3,235 ratings
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Service Games: The Rise and Fall of SEGA: Enhanced Edition
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3.72 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Confessions of the Game Doctor
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2.95 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Castlevania
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3.93 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Clipping Through: One Mad Week In Video Games
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4.04 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Hardcore Gaming 101 Digest Vol. 1: Strider and Bionic Commando
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3.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Making of Karateka
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4.15 avg rating — 504 ratings
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Kingdom Hearts II (Boss Fight Books, #16)
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3.54 avg rating — 233 ratings
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Final Fantasy V (Boss Fight Books, #18)
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4.19 avg rating — 343 ratings
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World of Warcraft (Boss Fight Books, #12)
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3.68 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Gamish: A Graphic History of Gaming
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4.05 avg rating — 457 ratings
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Shovel Knight (Boss Fight Books #19)
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3.90 avg rating — 179 ratings
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The Comic Book Story of Video Games: The Incredible History of the Electronic Gaming Revolution
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3.68 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Minesweeper (Boss Fight Books, #31)
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3.93 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Day of the Tentacle (Boss Fight Books, #32)
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3.55 avg rating — 49 ratings
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PaRappa the Rapper (Boss Fight Books, #30)
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4.23 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Silent Hill 2 (Boss Fight Books, #27)
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4.02 avg rating — 281 ratings
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