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I'd say Lucky Wander Boy was good. I don't know about excellent.
It was awesome because of it's subject matter, but that will only carry so far. Aside from the ending, which I enjoyed greatly, and the excerpts from Pennyman's catalog...there's nothing there that would drive me to want to read it again.
It's not bad. It's certainly not terrible. But it's not excellent.
It's just...good.
I just sold a Game Over book on half.com. I didnt even read it.
I thought Joystick Nation was a poorly written piece of crap (it was so boring for the majority of the chapters I put it down to actually go play a game), Trigger Happy wasn't much better. Haven't gotten to Game Over yet, but looks like it's not worth reading.
btw, what's Lucky Wonder Boy? haven't heard of that one.
Game Over is garbage. I got it at EB for $1.99.
Now I know why it was so cheap. :(
Are you serious? Game Over covered everything behind the scenes of Nintendo. Even if you didn't like the writing, it still shed so much light on what happened at Nintendo.
Maybe it was just more powerful a decade ago when much of that Nintendo info wasn't common gamer knowledge and there were so few gaming history books available.
Game Over was a four hundred and seventy four page sleeping pill.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
You paid for it? I got mine for free when I was working there. We had like 4 huge boxes of them. I sold it for $20 on half.com. I should of taken more of it if I knew it was going to sell like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
It's a fictional book in which videogames play a large role. Mainly a dark comedy about a guy who's extremely obsessed with old arcade games (a love rekindled by MAME) and begins to shape his life more and more around that obsession. Like with you and Itagaki ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Satsuki
There's a lot of really great moments that people on TNL are likely to understand very well. Like whenever he remembers an old game - often in a sharp satire of a "philosophy in cultural studies" type format. Or on his skewed views of Japan.
This certainly isn't the best of those moments, but it's not the worst either, so it'll give you a feel of the book. Check it out, and read TNL's review too. http://www.luckywanderboy.com/excerpt.html
I really liked Game Over. It's a great peice of gaming history. Any gamer that does'nt enjoy the read provided with Game Over, might as well turn in your gaming badge.
Arcade Fever is'nt much of a read, but it's coverage of arcade games of the past is worth the $25 I paid for it. The back of the book has a cool little interview with a guy putting together a collection of the best arcade games of the past. One part talks about how he found The Empire Strikes arcade machine and how it was dropped from the back of a truck by the movers. A sad day indeed!
Anyone who says that other people need to turn in their gaming badge because of some inane criteria that hasn't been met needs to turn in their gaming badge immediately.