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Review title: Only for the die-hard.
Product review: This is more of a history of the video game industry than a history of video games. It's worth reading to find out about the origins of Atari, and about obscure, failed systems of the early days...the last half, on the Playstation era, isn't as interesting.The style is pretty dry and impersonal. In the next edition I'd like to see more cultural history, and more on the evolution of the design of the games themselves. I want to know more about the programmers, and how they came up with games like Food Fight.As it is, all you find out about Tetris, for example, is "you stop blocks from piling up." But congrats to Herman for putting this vast amount of information together.
