A rather obscure (but I think worthy) entry is Bob Pape's "It's Behind You". Pape was a programmer who wrote games on the 1980s British 8-bit Sinclair Spectrum

A rather obscure (but I think worthy) entry is Bob Pape's "It's Behind You". Pape was a programmer who wrote games on the 1980s British 8-bit Sinclair Spectrum computer and in this book he talks about his experiences both with the gaming industry at the time and how to program on such a limited machine. It's free on his website (http://itsbehindyou.atwebpages.com/download.html http://itsbehindyou.atwebpages.com/download.html)