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I’ve got the hard cover version from Stripe. As someone that also moved to the Bay Area fairly young to start his career, I identified with the author. It’s a cute book and really does a great job of putting you in his head.

I found it funny that he wasn’t sure that the video games industry would last.

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I didn't know there was a hardcover. Thanks for sharing! It used to be one of my favorite games and this would be a great sometime read.

For anyone else looking, it's $23 from Stripe: https://press.stripe.com/the-making-of-prince-of-persia (sadly it's only available from Amazon)

You can also get the ePub version for $8: https://www.jordanmechner.com/books/journals/?lang=en_EN

For reference the physical version is REALLY high quality and worth owning for simply being a very nice physical object.

I've bought a few books from Stripe Press and they are all high quality. My only complaint is that some of them use a very small (to my old eyes) font. I bought The Dream Machine from them and ended up finding an electronic version for my ereader.

If I had a penny for every time I tried to pinch-to-zoom a paper book...

...I'd have enough for an ebook

Yeah I have a few books from them including Human Puzzle and one other I'm blanking on just now. All have been things that feel nice in the hand. I can see how the font would not be great if your eyes struggle with their font size choice though.

You convinced me to look for a used copy on eBay (found one). Thanks!

If you like it, check out other books from them. They're a small publisher but what they decide to print aligns pretty well with the interests of many HN readers.

https://press.stripe.com/

Thanks for linking to this, it let me look at the list and remember Hamming's book was the other one I bought. I really need to finish reading it, but it is so dense it takes a while to get through.

It’s also much longer

> I found it funny that he wasn’t sure that the video games industry would last.

At the time, video games seemed to be overly saturated, the marketplace was way down in sales and yes, people didn't know if video games were a passing fad or not. Computers were still more a hobbiest item rather than a thing everybody had.

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