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scotland
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Storybundle books

Postby scotland » May 6th, 2016, 9:28 am

Storybundle currently has 2 bundles that may interest retro gaming fans:

1) Boss Fight Bundle with books on : Chrono Trigger, Jagged Alliance 2, Super Mario Bros 2, Bible Adventures, Baldurs Gate II, Earthbound, ZZT, Galaga, Metal Gear Solid, and Shadow of the Colossus.

2) Nerd History Bundle: Books mostly on early computer days with books on Microsoft, Google, Bill Gates, the rise and fall of the PC, the TRS-80, and "Terrible Nerd" that hits on adventures in computers in the 80s and 90s.

I do not endorse any of these, but if they tickle your fancy, check out reviews on Amazon. With the rise of e-books, there are a lot more genre books available, but they tend toward being personal accounts and experiences, and in want of a good editors and fact checkers. I've purchased a number of these book bundles, and its rather hit or miss, but for the price, I keep going back. Storybundle works like other bundles, where a few dollars buys a few things, and for about $15 you usually can get the whole bundle.

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Re: Storybundle books

Postby scotland » November 30th, 2017, 5:40 pm

Storybundle has a another gaming focused collection of e-books:
https://storybundle.com/games

Verb/Ose - an exploration into the Point and Click genre
Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding - about what it says on the tin for things like RPGs
Trigger Happy 2.0 - about some of the politics of making video games
Making Fun - stories from developers
Gamedev stories - more stories from developers
Boss Fight Books - Final Fantasy V
Retro Game Super Translation - about some classic lines and how they were localized
Good Luck Have Fun - esports
Somebody set us up the ROM - about Rom hacks

The quality of these books have been highly variable in the past. Some are well researched and well put together, others have been less than garbage in being misleading and only tangentially about what they said they were about (lying is even worse than just being bad).

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Re: Storybundle books

Postby GameOfThrones » December 3rd, 2017, 9:07 am

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/java-books

the above is the humble bumble variation. this is just about programming. I have bought one batch before and it is variable quality but you do get 8 books for the price of half of a normal dummies book,

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Re: Storybundle books

Postby scotland » June 2nd, 2018, 10:13 am

https://storybundle.com/games

Storybundle has another set of video game books, this one is another on Boss Fights
* Spelunky
* Mega Man 3
* Metal Gear Solid
* Final Fantasy V
* Soft and Cuddly
* World of Warcraft
* Super Mario Bros 3
* Kingdom Hearts II
* Shadow of the Colossus
* Chrono Trigger

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Re: Storybundle books

Postby scotland » November 22nd, 2018, 12:45 pm

There is another video game book bundle on Storybundle
https://storybundle.com/games

The Winter Power-Up Game bundle includes
- NES Works Volume 1 1985 (about the launch of the NES in America)
- Sega Saturn Video Games you will never play (one in a series about prototypes and other unreleased games)
- The Game Beat (a collection of articles from the last 15 years of video game journalism)
- PlayStation Video Games you will never play
- Rocket Jump: Quake and the Golden Age of First Person Shooters (about ID software and the Quake games)
- NES Works Volume 2 1986
- Game of X volume 2 (about Microsofts transition from DOS games to original Xbox games)
- Generation Decks: History of Magic The Gathering
- Boss Fights: Shovel Knight
- Making Mulaka
- Nintendo 64 Video Games you will never play

To get all the books will cost you $15 (or more if you choose to pay more, you know how bundles work)


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