http://hight3ch.com/post/history-of-video-games-46-mins/ apologies if this has been posted before .. i found this vid quite interesting and rather inspiring ...
if you REALLY want a good book go find this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761536...5Fencoding=UTF8 It only goes up to the xbox/gc/ps2 era, but it's pretty much the textbook on game history...lots a neat little tidbits in there too...