List of books based on computer and video games

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The following is a list of books based on computer and video games. See also: List of books on computer and video games.

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[edit] Doom

[edit] Novels

A series of four novels were based on events and locations in the game were released in 1995 by Dafydd ab Hugh and Brad Linaweaver:

Doom: Knee-Deep in the Dead
(ISBN 0-671-52555-7)
Doom: Hell On Earth
(ISBN 0-671-52562-X)
Doom: Infernal Sky
(ISBN 0-671-52563-8)
Doom: Endgame
(ISBN 0-671-52566-2)

[edit] Halo

[edit] Novels

Four licensed novels based on the Halo series have been published:

Halo: The Fall of Reach
Eric S. Nylund(ISBN 1-84149-420-8)
Halo: The Flood
William C. Dietz (ISBN 1-84149-421-6)
Halo: First Strike
Eric S. Nylund (ISBN 1-84149-422-4)
Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
Eric S. Nylund (ISBN 0-7653-1568-8)

[edit] Perfect Dark

[edit] Novels

Perfect Dark: Initial Vector
Greg Rucka (ISBN 0-7653-1571-8)
Perfect Dark: Second Front
Greg Rucka (ISBN 0-7653-1572-4)

[edit] Sonic the Hedgehog

[edit] Gamebooks

A series of six Sonic Adventures gamebooks were published in the UK between 1993 and 1996 by Puffin under the Fantail label:

Book 1 - Metal City Mayhem
James Wallis (ISBN 0-14-090391-7)
Book 2 - Zone Rangers
James Wallis (ISBN 0-14-090392-5)
Book 3 - Sonic v Zonik
Nigel Gross and Jon Sutherland (ISBN 0-14-090406-9)
Book 4 - The Zone Zapper
Nigel Gross and Jon Sutherland (ISBN 0-14-090407-7)
Book 5 - Theme Park Panic
Marc Gascoigne and Jonathan Green (ISBN 0-14-037847-2)
Book 6 - Stormin' Sonic
Marc Gascoigne and Jonathan Green (ISBN 0-14-037848-0)

[edit] Novels

Stay Sonic
Mike Pattenden developed a detailed origin for the character later used as the basis of most subsequent UK Sonic stories.

James Wallis, Marc Gascoigne and Carl Sargent (under the pseudonym of Martin Adams) wrote four Sonic the Hedgehog novels based on the origin established in Stay Sonic. They were published in the UK by Virgin Publishing.

Book 1 - Sonic the Hedgehog in Robotnik's Laboratory 
(ISBN 0-426-20401-8)
Book 2 - Sonic the Hedgehog in the Fourth Dimension 
(ISBN 0-426-20402-6)
Book 3 - Sonic the Hedgehog and the Silicon Warriors 
(ISBN 0-426-20403-4)
Book 4 - Sonic the Hedgehog in Castle Robotnik 
(ISBN 0-426-20405-0)

Michael Teitelbaum has also written a series of Sonic novels:

Sonic the Hedgehog 
(ISBN 0-8167-3199-3)
Robotnik's Revenge 
(ISBN 0-8167-3438-0)
Fortress of Fear 
(ISBN 0-8167-3582-4)
Friend or Foe? 
(ISBN 0-8167-3672-3)
Sonic & Knuckles 
(ISBN 0-8167-3781-9)
Sonic X-Treme

Two novels have been written based on the Second/Third season of Sonic X:

Meteor Shower Messenger
Spaceship Blue Typhoon
Where's Sonic?
Using a similar idea to the Where's Wally?/Where's Waldo? books, each page presented the reader with a different puzzle, each one inspired by a different level from Sonic 2 on the Sega Genesis / Sega Mega Drive. Published by Ladybird Books Ltd.
Where's Sonic Now?

Picture books:

Robotnik's Oil
The Invisible Robotnik