The team at Boss Fight Books has returned from a short hiatus with the sixth season of their documentary-style books about classic video games. The season’s theme is “Here to Play,” and publisher Gabe Durham has promised that this set of titles will explore the “fun, playful, and goofy” side of video games.
Boss Fight Books: Season 6 is currently seeking funding through Kickstarter (until Tuesday, March 7), and it’ll include PaRappa the Rapper by Mike Sholars, Animal Crossing by Kelsey Lewin, Minesweeper by Kyle Orland and Day of the Tentacle by Bob Mackey. All of these authors will be making their Boss Fight Books debut during this season, but each one is also a crafty veteran of the game history game.
Mike Sholars has previously worked as an editor for Boss Fight Books. PaRappa the Rapper will be available as an ebook in April 2023 with the paperback scheduled to follow a few months later.
Kyle Orland has served as the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica since 2012. Minesweeper will plant a flag in your ebook library in May 2023 before the paperback is released this Summer.
Bob Mackey is a co-founder, co-host, and podcast producer for the Retronauts network. Day of the Tentacle will invade bookstores as an ebook in August 2023 and in paperback a month later.
And Kelsey Lewin is the Co-Director of the Video Game History Foundation and co-host of the Video Game History Hour podcast. Animal Crossing will close out Season 6 as an ebook in November 2023 and in paperback a month later.
You can learn more about all four books after the break. And be sure to read a trio of excerpts from Minesweeper at Ars Technica, Kotaku, and GamesIndustry.biz.