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Pros
The weaving of history and art in relation to the creation of videogames fascinate my brain. It is an impassioned plea (backed by a great deal of research) for us to notice the video games that show what the medium could be.
Ervin makes a good case for why people interested in immersive or communal aesthetic experiences more and more often look to games as cultural touchstones. Ervin is the perfect, enthusiastic guide for this inventive history of video games. Ervin is a ... Read More
Cons
His many references are impressive despite fostering little fresh insight for the typical reader. By the end he laments the certainty that games will not be available on their original hardware.
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Much of the history can be gathered elsewhere but ervin’s conversations with the creators and designers added a novel aspect to... Read More
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As someone whose last new system was a sega dreamcast and after that a used playstation 1 i wouldnt call myself a gamer
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I must admit i die a little each time i read a user review of a video game affectionately describe it as “a nice little timewaster
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This is not some exhaustive list of all video games ever
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The subtitle of the book “how video games transformed our world” is probably a bit too ambitious and overstates what the book is really about
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It is far more of a memoir of the author’s andrew ervin jaunt through the history of video games
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Not a lot mind you it’s not an autobiography
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Sometimes insightful other times insipid and occasionally pompous or overwrought
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It also does not participate in the erasure of women designers from videogame history like most traditional histories
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