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VGC Essays: A Brief History of Video Games as Told Through 22 Games

VGC Essays are original articles discussing each title from the Video Game Canon, as well as their place in gaming history, how the community embraced them in the past, and how they might help shape games in the present day.

Sometime in the future, these essays will be updated and collected in a book. In the meantime, the essays can be found on the Long Reads page.

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