Boss Fight Books

Boss Fight Books is a Los Angeles-based book publisher and its eponymous series of books about video games. 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. The idea for the series came when Durham was reading Jeff Ryan's Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America, as Durham wished that the book would slow down and provide more depth to the games it covered. After finding there was no video game-equivalent of 33 1⁄3‍—a series of books about individual record albums—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.

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