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Through the tales of gambling's best improvements and most precious masterpieces, correspondent Harold Goldberg catches the imagination, debate--and interest--behind the video-game's meteoric climb to the utmost effective of the pop culture pantheon.Over the final fifty years, game titles have become from curiosities to fashions to developments to 1 of the planet's most well-known types of mass amusement. But whilst the gambling business develops in several instructions and everybody discusses the progress of as soon as, several investigate and seek to comprehend the causes behind this serious development. How did we get from Space Invaders to Grand Theft Auto? How precisely did gambling turn into a prominent pop-culture type and a $50-billion business?