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Best books to learn Video game history & culture, in order

This is a subject you read to understand rather than to play, so it opens with the industry's history, the arc from arcades to home consoles to today. Then it moves into design and why certain games matter, and finally into the culture and the people and moments that made gaming a defining art form. Reading the history first gives you the context that makes the design and cultural criticism land.

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