The Big List of Books About Games: Memoirs

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Bach, Robbie – Xbox Revisited: A Game Plan for Corporate and Civic Renewal – 2015

Baer, Ralph – Videogames: In the Beginning – 2005

Bleszinski Cliff – Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video Games – 2022

Davis, Warren – Creating Q*bert and Other Classic Video Arcade Games – 2021

Dinc, Mev – Life is a Game – 2021

Fils-Aime, Reggie – Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo – 2022

Fregger, Brad – Lucky That Way: Stories of Seizing the Moment While Creating the Games Millions Play – 1999

Garriott, Richard and David Fisher – Explore/Create: My Life in Pursuit of New Frontiers, Hidden Worlds, and the Creative Spark – 2017

Iwata, Satoru – Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom From Nintendo’s Legendary CEO – 2021

Kojima, Hideo – The Creative Gene – 2021

Kunkel, Bill – Confessions of the Game Doctor – 2005

Meier, Sid – Sid Meier’s Memoir! A Life in Computer Games – 2020

Romero, John – Doom Guy: Life in First Person – Expected 2023

Shippy, David and Mickie Phipps – The Race For A New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 – 2010

Smith, Ed – Imagine That – 2020

Staats, John – The World of Warcraft Diary: A Journal in Computer Game Development – 2019

Warshaw, Howard Scott – Once Upon Atari: How I Made History by Killing an Industry – 2020

Williams, Ken – Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings: The Rise and Fall of Sierra On-Line – 2020

Williams, Walt – Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art and Soul in Video Games – 2017

Yu, Derek – Spelunky – Boss Fight Books #11 – 2016