The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 1: From Pong to Pokemon and Beyond . . . the Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Ultimate History of Video Games series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 1: From Pong to Pokemon and Beyond . . . the Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World runs 23.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Dan Woren (about 15.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 23.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 47 days |
| 1 hour / day | 24 days |
| 2 hours / day | 12 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 16 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 23.5 hours, it runs longer than 99% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Ultimate History of Video Games
This is book 1. Books 1 to 2 run 43.6 hours in all.
More narrated by Dan Woren
Dan Woren narrates 185 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,006 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Social Science shelf
82 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 1: From Pong to Pokemon and Beyond . . . the Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World is book 1 of Steven L. Kent's Ultimate History of Video Games series: a 23.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Dan Woren, released September 13, 2022, on the Social Science shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 23.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Dan Woren
- Released
- September 13, 2022
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science
- Series
- Ultimate History of Video Games #1
- ISBN
- 9780593666401
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 1: From Pong to Pokemon and Beyond . . . the Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World as an audiobook?
The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 1: From Pong to Pokemon and Beyond . . . the Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World runs 23.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 15.7 hours.
Is The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 1: From Pong to Pokemon and Beyond . . . the Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 1: From Pong to Pokemon and Beyond . . . the Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World?
The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 1: From Pong to Pokemon and Beyond . . . the Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World is narrated by Dan Woren.
Is The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 1: From Pong to Pokemon and Beyond . . . the Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 15.7 hours, saving 7.8 hours.