Review: Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
Author: Matthew Baker
I like video games; I just don’t play them much. I was the kid who went to the arcade in the mall and watched other kids feed quarters into the slots, mashing the buttons on Street Fighter or trying to time their moves on Dragon’s Lair. I didn’t have the money, which meant I didn’t get the practice and never really got the skills. When a lot of my friends had moved on to the Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo, we were still borrowing old NES cartridges. Even now, I’m behind the curve: I have an Xbox (which I bought used, years ago) but again the next generation has passed me by. In fact, I’m pretty close to being two generations behind.
This explains why, of all the video games Tom Bissell writes about in his recent book, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, I’ve only played two or three, and none of those to completion. Despite that, I found myself completely drawn in to the world Bissell described, and I can only imagine how much greater the impact of his stories would be for somebody who knows their video games.
Extra Lives is sort of a memoir, sort of a collection of essays. Bissell is not intending the book to be video game criticism, or a history of the gaming industry, or a technical assessment of anything. Rather, as he puts it:
I wrote this book as a writer who plays a lot of games, and in these pages you will find one man’s opinions and thoughts on what playing games feels like, why he plays them, and the questions they make him think about.
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Review: Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
Author: Brian McKinnell
I like video games; I just don’t play them much. I was the kid who went to the arcade in the mall and watched other kids feed quarters into the slots, mashing the buttons on Street Fighter or trying to time their moves on Dragon’s Lair. I didn’t have the money, which meant I didn’t get the practice and never really got the skills. When a lot of my friends had moved on to the Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo, we were still borrowing old NES cartridges. Even now, I’m behind the curve: I have an Xbox (which I bought used, years ago) but again the next generation has passed me by. In fact, I’m pretty close to being two generations behind.
This explains why, of all the video games Tom Bissell writes about in his recent book, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, I’ve only played two or three, and none of those to completion. Despite that, I found myself completely drawn in to the world Bissell described, and I can only imagine how much greater the impact of his stories would be for somebody who knows their video games.
Extra Lives is sort of a memoir, sort of a collection of essays. Bissell is not intending the book to be video game criticism, or a history of the gaming industry, or a technical assessment of anything. Rather, as he puts it:
I wrote this book as a writer who plays a lot of games, and in these pages you will find one man’s opinions and thoughts on what playing games feels like, why he plays them, and the questions they make him think about.
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