I'm really surprised that no one mentioned my book, Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Videogames. When it was originally published in 1994, Phoenix was the first-ever comprehensive book on the history of videogames. Steve Kent even mentioned this is the foreword to his book. The latest edition is the third, which was published in 2001. In 2008, Game Informer named Phoenic the 2nd best videogame-related book ever written. A 4th edition is planned to be published sometime in 2013.