Gamelife: a memoir
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.
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- Full title :Gamelife : a memoir / Michael W. Clune.
Summary
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.
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- Publication Date:2015
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015
The Physical Object
- Description:211 pages ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780865478282 (hardcover), 0865478287 (hardcover), 9780374536381, 0374536384
- oclc:ocn910072988
- LC Classification:GV1469.15
- Dewey Decimal:794.8
Table of Contents
Suspended -- Four hundred and ninety points of damage -- The devil in the garden -- World War II has never ended -- The sun and the stars -- Pirates! -- A heart of the sky.
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