1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die

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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die
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Soft cover edition
AuthorGeneral Editor: Tony Mott
Preface by Peter Molyneux
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Reference work
Published2010 (Universe Publishing) [1]
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages960 p.
ISBN 978-0-7893-2090-2 [1]

1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die is a video game reference book first published in October 2010. [2] It consists of a list of video games released between 1970 and 2013, arranged chronologically by release date. [3] Each entry in the list is accompanied by a short essay written by a video game critic, with some entries accompanied by screen shots. [4] It was edited by Tony Mott, long-time editor of Edge magazine. [2] The book's preface was written by video game designer Peter Molyneux. [1]

Contents

It is written in a similar manner to 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die , also published by Universe Publishing. [4] [5]

By platform

PlatformGames
3DO 1
Commodore Amiga4
Apple II 1
Arcade 124
Commodore 64/ZX Spectrum 1
PDP-10 1
Dreamcast 8
Nintendo DS 42
Flash 1
Game Boy 3
Game Boy Advance 20
Game Boy Color 1
GameCube 28
Intellivision 1
Internet 10
iPad 1
iPhone 14
Atari Jaguar 1
Macintosh 5
Master System 2
Mega Drive 9
Mobile 3
Neo Geo 2
Neo Geo Pocket 1
Neo Geo Pocket Color 1
NES 11
Nintendo 64 23
PC 149
PlayStation 21
PlayStation 2 53
PlayStation 3 44
PlayStation Portable 16
Sega Saturn 7
Super NES 26
ZX Spectrum/CPC1
Atari ST/Mac1
TurboGrafx-16 1
Unix 1
VCS3
Wii 35
Xbox 8
Xbox 360 37

Reception

Reception for the book has been generally positive, with critics praising the wealth of knowledge, but criticizing some particular entries. Rick Dakan of PopMatters stated, "Most of the choices seem great to me, and I like that the authors include a lot of smaller, experimental games and some flawed but important titles as well", but disagreed with some entries, such as Army of Two: The 40th Day . [3]

While The Austin Chronicle praised the history that the book presented, it criticized the book for its repetitiveness in listing several sequels in certain long-running series, such as the Final Fantasy and Resident Evil series. [4] [6] [7]

In his review for Starburst , Callum Shephard said that it was "a good guide" with the proviso that "It's distinctly weaker when it comes to covering handheld gaming and some titles are definitely under-represented." [8]

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