Gamelife
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Michael W. Clune
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780865478282
Subjects: Video gamers; Video games; Computer games; Childhood and youth; Biography; History
Description: Video games began to obsess Clune when he was seven. They began to worm into his head and change his sense of reality. This is his memoir of a childhood transformed by technology. Afternoons spent gazing at pixelated maps and mazes trained eyes for the uncanny side of 1980s suburban Illinois. A game about pirates yields clues to the drama of cafeteria politics and locker-room hazing. And in the year of his parents' divorce, a spaceflight simulator opens a hole in reality.
Table of contents: title: Suspended; title: Four hundred and ninety points of damage; title: The devil in the garden; title: World War II has never ended; title: The sun and the stars; title: Pirates!; title: A heart of the sky.