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darcerenity's review
2.0
Excellent as a history of gaming, particularly as a limited biography of certain key game developers.
This was not particularly my interest when I picked this book up, however.
I was hoping for more exploration of the cultural, sociological, and narratological aspects of computer gaming.
For my interests, two chapters of this book blew me away with their commentary and insight, but the rest of the book, while well-written was not particularly engaging.
This was not particularly my interest when I picked this book up, however.
I was hoping for more exploration of the cultural, sociological, and narratological aspects of computer gaming.
For my interests, two chapters of this book blew me away with their commentary and insight, but the rest of the book, while well-written was not particularly engaging.
shane_tiernan's review against another edition
4.0
I was there. I was sitting in my friend's basement playing Ultima on a Commodore 64 with a tape drive. I was "inserting cassette 4" to get to the next section/part of the story. I was the one playing Dragon Warrior on the first Nintendo when I realized the sun was coming up. I was the one who was totally happy to be playing as a little square in "Adventure" on my Atari 2600. And yes I was one of those leaning in my seat to peer around corners in Doom. After Doom I kind of backed off video games until City of Heroes and then WOW, both of which I played for about 6 months. Then I went back to WOW a couple times and then I played Skyrim. So my first 15 years of life had a lot more to do with video games than the next 35, but they were fun.
I got this book as part of an online secret Santa thing and I originally thought it was about D&D. I love this kind of stuff though and, as mentioned, video games had a lot to do with my life growing up (then D&D took over). I was actually never part of the LAN parties or any of the "community" outside of me and my friends playing the same games or playing them together. Even guilds in WOW didn't really appeal to me because I never seemed to connect with people who had the same ideas about video games that I did, they always seemed to take it too seriously.
Reading books like this about "movements" or events/inventions that changed the world is just really cool to me and I'm always wondering what the next one will be and hoping to be part of it.
I got this book as part of an online secret Santa thing and I originally thought it was about D&D. I love this kind of stuff though and, as mentioned, video games had a lot to do with my life growing up (then D&D took over). I was actually never part of the LAN parties or any of the "community" outside of me and my friends playing the same games or playing them together. Even guilds in WOW didn't really appeal to me because I never seemed to connect with people who had the same ideas about video games that I did, they always seemed to take it too seriously.
Reading books like this about "movements" or events/inventions that changed the world is just really cool to me and I'm always wondering what the next one will be and hoping to be part of it.
anthrosercher's review against another edition
4.0
A good book, an important topic. But mislabeled.
It's a history if FPS and MMOs. Which it fine. But it take till page 202 for Myst to even be mentioned.
It's a history if FPS and MMOs. Which it fine. But it take till page 202 for Myst to even be mentioned.
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