A review by lfro2013
Replay: The History of Video Games by Tristan Donovan

funny informative lighthearted slow-paced

4.0

For all its typos and slightly confusing structure, I really enjoyed this book. You can tell it's from a lower budget publisher because it does lack a certain proofreading polish, but I found the authors enthusiasm for the material really infectious and I especially liked the emphasis he placed on the development of video games as an art. It reads more like an art history book sometimes than a tech history book and I really enjoyed that. I did sometimes get a bit confused because the chapters would operate sort of on their own chronology, so I would get a bit confused when on chapter ended discussing things in 1987 and then the next chapter was talking about developments in 1981. I understand why he did it but it was still a bit confusing.