Boss Fight Books

Boss Fight Books
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherBoss Fight Books
PublishedJanuary 2014–present
Media typePrint (paperback)
e-book
audiobook

Boss Fight Books is a Los Angeles-based book publisher and its eponymous series of books about video games. Similar to the style of 33⅓, a series of books about individual record albums, each book focuses solely on one video game. The company was founded by Gabe Durham in June 2013, and following a successful Kickstarter campaign in July, they released their first book, EarthBound by Ken Baumann in January 2014.[1]

The idea for the series came when Durham was reading Jeff Ryan's Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America,[2] as Durham wished that the book would slow down and provide more depth to the games it covered. After finding there was no equivalent of 33⅓ for video games, Durham pitched the idea of the series to his friend, Ken Baumann, who agreed to write the first book and serve as the series' designer.[3][4]

After securing agreements with authors for the first five books, Durham turned to Kickstarter, seeking $5,000 in funding, a target that was met within eight hours. At the close of the campaign in July 2013, Boss Fight Books had raised $45,429, allowing the project to proceed. As part of the crowdfunding campaign, backers got to vote on the subject of a sixth book, and Chrono Trigger, which had been considered but not included in the first five, was chosen.[3][5] Boss Fight Books returned to Kickstarter to fund a second season consisting of a further six books; it too was successful, raising $53,186 in November 2014. Like the first campaign, backers got to vote on the subject of one of the books; they chose Shadow of the Colossus.

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  2. ^ Ryan, Jeff (2012). Super Mario : how Nintendo conquered America (Pbk. ed.). New York: Portfolio/Penguin. ISBN 9781591845638. OCLC 818697737.
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