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I'm looking to expand my library of video game literature. So far my only books I own are:
Opening the Xbox
The Ultimate History of Video Games
Revolutionaries at Sony
Game Over (pending in)
Any suggestions would be great and if you guys know a place I can get Trigger Happy fairly cheap.
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I really want to read Lucky the Wanderboy and especially Masters of Doom.
Worlds Of Power
Jeff Rovin
Lucky Wanderboy is excellent.
Trigger Happy by steven poole
Joystick Nation by J.C. Herz
And definately try to find SuperCade, it's written by Seamus Blackley's wife. I haven't read it, but people who have agree that it is a very good book.
Everyone on TNL should have their own copy of Lucky Wander Boy. It's just excellent. If you can find it in a bookstore, read the entry on Pac-Man in the first chapter and tell me it's not awesome.
Is Lucky Wanderboy fiction? I think I may have heard of it. What's it about?
SC
We did a review of it if you want to know more. It is fiction and it'd be great if TNL did some more, I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by spacecowboy
"Adam Pennyman is a 30-year-old gamer who rekindles his affection for the digital medium after a friend shows him the popular MAME emulator on his PC. When Pennyman hears the Frogger "BYYEWWWW" death sound reproduced perfectly through the computer's sound chip, it triggers a powerful nostalgic resonance in him that motivates him to finish his Catalogue of Obsolete Entertainments, an encyclopedic review of the arcade games he grew up loving.
In his search, Pennyman discovers that Lucky Wander Boy (the only fictional game in this otherwise reality-based novel) seems to have vanished from the earth. Since the game is impossible to emulate due to its unique code and processor requirements, the only way for Pennyman to possibly play it and complete his Catalogue is to find an actual Lucky machine, so he sets off to do just that."
From what I hear there are many great non-videogame related books that are worth reading too.
Game Over was one of the worst-written books I have ever read.