For some time now, a love of reading has proliferated in our country that was already established in others around us and that had video games as protagonists. Not so much as an excuse to build a plot within a fictional novel, but rather as a sources of knowledge in their role as witnesses of an era, of a console, of a video game saga, of a company or of a relevant figure within the industry.
Read at Easter
Today Holy Week officially begins, four whole days -five in some autonomous communities- that we can dedicate to sitting in an armchair, putting a blanket over our legs and letting ourselves be carried away by the memories of those great moments that the history of the videogames. So for that reason, We have selected five references that will interest you, especially if your love for gaming you have to go look for it several decades ago.
Come on, here are our recommendations.
pixelated memories
Jesus Martinez del Vas does a tour of some of the most notable events of the video game industry in Spain: the drop in Erbe prices in the 1980s, the development of the prison (an MMORPG when there were no MMORPGs) and endless more data and events that will surprise you. A quick, entertaining and enlightening read.
Retro Gaming: A journey through the history of video games, from Atari to Zelda
Mike Diver reviews the main sagas of characters that have entertained us throughout history, offering details and information about them that you probably did not know. A tour that will make you travel back in time and to your early years with the NES and other generations of consoles.
Not all fairy tales have a happy ending: The rise and fall of Sierra On-Line
Surely there is no more incredible and exciting story to recover this Holy Week than a review of one of the companies that did the most in the 80s –and 90s– for injecting the passion for graphic adventures into our veins. A tour of all the games the Williamses developed –Roberta and Ken– at a time that is part of the Golden Age of global software.
JACKED: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto
Although the first Grand Theft Auto went unnoticed, the success of the third installment turned the Rockstar game –DMA at first– into a planetary phenomenon. This book reveals a good part of that path to the fame that, we already advance you, will surprise you with each page you read. You can’t imagine anything like it.
Video Game Consoles 2.0: A photographic history from Atari to Xbox
Finally, we are going to recommend a book that is a visual joy, because It is a review of all the consoles that have appeared on the market over more than four decades. And some, we already told you, you didn’t even know they existed. A photographic work of the first order and some texts so well documented that you will remember the old days as if they were today.