I read books of which game adaptions have been made later, but generally not books based on games. The former have a strong vision behind them and offer a fresh experience. The latter are afraid to deviate from the games, or rather, not allowed to. It's the game publisher's intention to keep the author invisible rather than make the universe their own, pumping out commercial products with little artistic merit. To be honest that's kind of what the fans want anyway. For some reason games based off books don't carry the same restrictions, probably because the individual writer doesn't have much sway over a multi-million dollar corporation.

I've also read a few of the Witcher books. The best ones are the first two - Sword of Destiny and The Last Wish. These are a collection of satisfying short stories with a surprisingly low body count. I've been meaning to read Shadow of Innsmouth, Lovecraft's novella of which Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth is at least partially based on. The Discworld books are a given (it's every Englishman's patriotic duty to read one).

When I was a kid my dad got me the Judge Dredd game for the SNES, after playing it I've read the comic and the megazine ever since (thank god back then my folks didn't ever look in the comic and see some of the content in it).

Most of the games I've played don't have a book or wouldn't translate very well to a book.

Still, I wouldn't mind having a few lorebooks to flesh out a few series in need of depth, like The Legend of Zelda, Secret of Mana, Fez, and a few others.

Oh, forgot about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Which I originally discovered through the infocom text adventure on the Amiga.

(And Sam & Max. Does Sam & Max count ?)

Oh, you read the Chick Tract? :B

Do manuals count? :D

(It's something that existed in the golden age of gaming, before everything including the heart was ripped out in the digital age)

Fairly common by the looks of it, but I also got into the Witcher books after playing the first game. Mostly I read different types of books, not gaming related.

Somehow I knew this would be about The Witcher.

Frankly I consider book reading (for leisure) too time-consuming, so I guess I have never done that.

Besides that, playing Dune and Dune 2 made me interested into the Dune universe, so yes I watched the movie after that. Faster that way than reading the book.

Playing TRON 2.0 reminded me of watching the movie, which I did.

Playing Age of Empires 1-2 made me interested in learning more about certain ancient warlords and such, by reading about them on the internets and watching some documentaries. Oh and watching The Alexander movie.

Well, yes.

Dune II and its remake Dune 2000 got me into Dune lore and subsequently into the Dune books themselves.

Robot City got me into Isaac Asimov (though I've never read the Robot City books themselves, which weren't written by Asimov anyway).

And, obviously, The Witcher games got me into the novels. I own all that were published in Brazil so far, but I'm yet to read anything past The Last Wish.

Nope. But a video has ever made me want to read a book.

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A couple of times. What instantly comes to mind and I'd recommend you treat yourself to (if you haven't read it yet) is Masters of Doom, a biography of John Romero and John Carmack with an emphasis on id Software days, the jolt to the FPS genre they gave it, the whole rollercoaster of the Doom days. It's fantastic.

Somebody, knowing my love of starcraft, bought me a starcraft book for the office secret santa. I felt obliged to read it, it was ok.

I've read the Tomb Raider comics and book that bridged Tomb Raider 2013 and Rise of the Tomb Raider.

But that's it for computer game derived books.

Read lots of books anyway.

When I bought StoneKeep in a store back around 1996 or 97, inside the box there was the game's CD and a hardback book called Thera's awakening. As I kept playing and feeling it was such an immersive game I reached for the book and read it all whenever I had free time that I couldn't spend in the game itself. It does a great job as a sort of prequel that you don't need to read to enjoy the game but gives more depth to locations from the game and the Big Bad's backstory.

It was an enjoyable read and I am happy to mention that a PDFied copy of the book is included in the extras on GOG.

Well, I did read the book adaptation of the Super Mario Bros. film, so I guess that counts. I was like 10 and I thought it was pretty good.

And I guess the STALKER-series was one of the reasons I picked up Roadside Picnic, which is an amazing book.