Postal by Brock Wilbur & Nathan Rabin is intelligent, compelling, and infinitely more lighthearted than the video game it chronicles. … More
Tag: Boss Fight Books
Review: KINGDOM HEARTS II by Alexa Ray Corriea
In the final hours of the Square Enix game Kingdom Hearts II, a bad boy named Axel sacrifices himself in … More
Jarett Kobek’s SOFT & CUDDLY
Soft & Cuddly (1987) and its predecessor Go to Hell (1985) were horror games published on cassette tapes for what … More
SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS, by Nick Suttner
Boss Fight Books, created in 2013, is a publishing house for creative nonfiction books on video games from classics like … More
BIBLE ADVENTURES, by Gabe Durham
When I was about eight or nine, I swore to God that I would read my entire Precious Moments Bible. … More
BALDUR’S GATE II, by Matt Bell
Once a year, I drive an hour and a half to get pictures with some old wrestlers in Waterloo, … More
ZZT, by Anna Anthropy
Growing up, I was obsessed with starting clubs. I was also terrible at getting people to actually join them. My … More
Super Mario Bros. 2, by Jon Irwin
“Playing a Mario game is about finding secrets,” Jon Irwin writes in Super Mario Bros. 2, the final installment in … More
Jagged Alliance 2, by Darius Kazemi
Dave Anthony’s proposal at an address to The Atlantic Council on October 1st that we install plainclothes soldiers into schools has … More
Galaga, by Michael Kimball
Let’s say you’re interested in reading a book on Galaga. Remember Galaga? Let’s say you’re a lifelong fan of the … More
Chrono Trigger, by Michael P. Williams
My hat goes off to Michael P. Williams immediately, for it is nothing but ambitious to write on Chrono Trigger. … More
EarthBound, by Ken Baumann
EarthBound—and I mean the videogame here, not the store—was released stateside for the SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) in 1995. … More