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Thumbing through this, I don't know if I should be proud or embarrassed that in 400+ pages of short histories of various TTRPGs, going from the 70s through 2020, outside of a handful of late release indie titles, I was already moderately to very familiar with every game discussed.

penguinrandomhouse.comMonsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground by Stu Horvath: 9780262048224 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksA richly illustrated, encyclopedic deep dive into the history of roleplaying games. When Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson released Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, they created the first roleplaying game of...

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Just flipped through the whole book with my daughter and pointed out every gaming book it discusses that I at some point owned and it took a while and she was not impressed.