Video game of the year : a year-by-year guide to the best, boldest, and most bizarre games from every year since 1977
(2023)
By:
Minor, Jordan
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
794.809/MINOR,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Abrams Image, 2023
DESCRIPTION
295 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781419762055, 1419762052, 9781419762055
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"For each of the 40 years of video game history, there is a defining game, a game that captured the zeitgeist and left a legacy for all games that followed. Through a series of entertaining, informative, and opinionated critical essays, author and tech journalist Jordan Minor investigates, in chronological order, the innovative, genre-bending, and earth-shattering games from 1977 through 2022. Minor explores development stories, critical reception, and legacy, and also looks at how gaming intersects with and eventually influences society at large while reveling in how uniquely and delightfully bizarre even the most famous games tend to be"--