Title: Gamelife
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.
Subjects: Video gamers, Video games, Computer games, Childhood and youth, Biography, History, Authors, biography, New York Times reviewed
Places: United States
People: Michael W. Clune