Replay, Tristan Donovan
Replay, Tristan Donovan
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Replay
The History of Video Games

Author: Tristan Donovan, Richard Garriott

Narrator: Gary Furlong

Unabridged: 15 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/06/2017


Synopsis

A riveting account of the birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television, Replay is the ultimate history of video games. From its origins in the research labs of the 1940s to the groundbreaking success of the Wii, Replay sheds new light on gaming's past. Along the way it takes in the spectacular rise and fall of Atari, the crazed cottage industry spawned by the computers of Sir Clive Sinclair, Japan's rapid ascent to the top of the gaming tree, and the seismic impact of Doom.

Replay tells the sensational story of how the creative vision of game designers across the globe gave rise to one of the world's most popular and dynamic art forms. Based on extensive research and more than 140 interviews, Replay includes insights from video game legends such as Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, Will Wright—the creator of The Sims—Doom designer John Romero, and Hironobu Sakaguchi of Final Fantasy fame. Replay also includes a foreword by Richard Garriott (AKA Lord British).

About Tristan Donovan

Tristan Donovan has written about video games for the Guardian, Edge, Game Developer, and Stuff, among other publications. In addition to Replay, he is the author of Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World. He lives in East Sussex, England.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Pavel on November 22, 2018

Knih o historii videoher vyšla už kvanta, jak těch obecných o průmyslu, tak specifických o historii značek, studií nebo jednotlivých her. Často opakují informace dostupné na internetu, šlapou vodu, tupě vyjmenovávají (aniž by byly encyklopediemi). Donovan na to jde jinak. Kombinací publikovaných a v......more

Goodreads review by Gillian on June 21, 2024

An easy to get into look at video games from the beginning and their historical context, with amazing amounts of interview quotes from the creators themselves. Part of the class that turned me into a gamer rather than someone scared to get into the complex mechanics and technology......more

Goodreads review by Dmitry on March 11, 2021

I didn’t know anything about French games. (And now I do)......more

Goodreads review by Maurício on November 30, 2018

Just the fact that this book goes and talks about the gaming communities out of the US and Japan should be reason enough for you to read it if you're interested in the history of video games, but it also talks about the obscure games that influenced the world we live in right now, the now unknown pe......more

Goodreads review by Kristopher on September 11, 2018

Amazing. Will read that one again because I just love hearing about this stuff. This book is packed with extremely interesting information about how many block buster games came to be. For a lot of them, when the writer starts talking about a new story, you have no clue about which game this is goin......more