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49eaa3  No.15958084

Do you have any books, sources of information or documentation on videogames history you would recommend?

There are some efforts of note on RPG's, there are several books like Dungeons and Desktops, the CRPG book project and that one autist that took it upon himself to play every single computer RPG ever released on his blog, there is even a book about roguelikes, go figure

Shmuplations has some interviews from japanese devs, even for non-shmups and then you have

what else is there of note? Im interested in strategy games mostly but anything goes really

you know, videgaomes are already lacking in the preservation aspect but Im afraid even the internet wont help with a lot of its history getting lost to time

6bad6a  No.15958105

I pretty much avoid all of them because they are all written by biased as fuck leftist.

See Hardcore Gaming.

It's better to just go back and play the games and experience it for yourself.


d43c7a  No.15958110

Ahoy


49eaa3  No.15958134

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>>15958105

yeah but there is only so much ground one person can cover, and even then one would probably focus on the genres they are most interested in, it is a shame so much is at risk of being completely forgotten in the fucking digital age of all places

I imagine some old fart at his local software museum, half a decade or more from now trying to explain some obscure videogame like Dominions 5 to a starry eyed wee lad who only knows the pleasures of infinite VR porn, the manual is gone, all sources of information and places of discussion have been 404'd for a good long while and only this one man in the whole world knows how to play it anymore or how to look into the archaic code

and once he is gone, nobody will care anymore

I dont know how to feel about that, but I guess thats just part of the course


a854b9  No.15958144

>>15958134

Thinking about it, yeah, it's sad as fuck.

Sadly I'm just a player, I'm not a chronicler.

The only solace is that we can keep these manuals going on in the future for the next generation.


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I won't even say they are good or not, these are the only ones I know of and they barely classify as history. Most sources of information about videogame history are so scattered, that you have stuff so simple as the reason for the naming of the Source engine sourced in a response inside a user talk section of an article in Valve's Developer Community wiki. This could be in a book about Valve's history as an enterprise, but there is no such thing.


19704b  No.15958150

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>>15958105

>See Hardcore Gaming.

yeah that place has really turned into a huge let down, along with retronauts. (anything to do with established game journos from ziff davis, EGM, 1up, UGO and shacknews is always leftist feminist cancer. even the free lancers) pics related.


7b04f3  No.15958152

No

Thats fucking gay as hell why would you read shit written by kotaku writers


49eaa3  No.15958164

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>>15958150

no sense crying over spilled milk really

here's the blog I was talking about

https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/

the CRPG addict is out of commission until the physical edition gets released, apparently all profits go to charity so Im not as mad but I do have a PDF of the early version before it got pulled, if anyone is interested


49eaa3  No.15958166

>>15958164

>the CRPG addict is out of commission

I meant the CRPG book project god damn it

https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/


f24f5f  No.15958190

If anyone has anything on how to program and design like an oldfag that would appreciated too.


ed72d5  No.15958973

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There's also Console Wars, it focuses mostly on Sega and their marketing battle with Nintendo in the 90's.


000000  No.15959018

>>15958084

This >>15958105

Also, most of what is documented are lies told by corporate suits to either hide their stupidity and mistakes, or to promote corporate jobs as being "cool and exciting" instead of complete shit made to attract slaves.


fd98fd  No.15959499

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>>15958084

Got ya covered on the best one, OP.


fd98fd  No.15959518

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>>15958150

>along with retronauts

>you will never hear Shane autism about Saturn, Phantasy Star, and MGS again.

>you never hear them tell fag Christian Nutt he's gay because he played Phantasy Star

>you will never hear Andrew Fitch weeb out about Persona.

>you will never hear Chris Kohler deep throating Nintendo and shitting on Sega every chance he gets

>it's now the Parish and Mackey Soy Show about Shit Everyone Knows


08fe4b  No.15959555

>>15959518

It's the death of bants really.

Having lighthearted shitflinging contests with your peers is what gave us the best content in terms of video game reviews and documentaries.

Now if someone even jokingly calls a former colleague a cunt for liking a thing they could very easily be sued or harassed into oblivion, or outright arrested and jailed depending on the country they reside in.

I'm not even going to lie and say I've never gotten mad as shit over banter before, but I can't honestly recall ever being so mad I wanted the other faggot's life utterly ruined over it.


1ca812  No.15959964

>>15959499

why do you do this


fd98fd  No.15960012

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>>15959964

do what


87fe27  No.15960719

>>15958105

From what I recall, the two volume History of Japanese Games one of their staff compiled was considered pretty good, but it's still best to pirate that rather than give them money for it like they intend for.

Also think I've heard rumor of them retroactively editing their existing articles to go with the flow of current year.


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I was going to see about picking up these books sometime.

>>15958190

<PDF is the first to come to mind.




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