09-30-2011, 01:12 PM
The latest 'it' book for geeks. Or is it nerds?
It's the future. Oil is gone. The world is a mess. Except for the massive virtual reality world Oasis which has full immersion and everybody is in there. Rather than live in the tired old world, you live in the shiny new world of Oasis living out your fantasies. Where have I heard this story before?
The owner of the game has died. He's left behind his fortune hidden in the game because he has no heirs. You have to solve puzzles and clues based on old video games, and by old I mean the '80s.
Basically the book is a tour through all the videogames and computer games and movies you loved in the last two decades. He names checks the early Atari systems. He mentions every arcade game I've ever played. He talks about the various quirks of games like Pacman and Tempest. There is a couple wanders through Wargames and Holy Grail.
It was fun to recognize everything he talked about. But it all seemed very contrived. The story was kind of slight. There was more talk about the peripheral stuff than there was about the actual characters.
On the one hand it was a great wallow in Nostalgia. don't get me wrong, I wallow constantly. But this seemed a bit too much. I think El Dingo needs to read this one and give us another view.
It's the future. Oil is gone. The world is a mess. Except for the massive virtual reality world Oasis which has full immersion and everybody is in there. Rather than live in the tired old world, you live in the shiny new world of Oasis living out your fantasies. Where have I heard this story before?
The owner of the game has died. He's left behind his fortune hidden in the game because he has no heirs. You have to solve puzzles and clues based on old video games, and by old I mean the '80s.
Basically the book is a tour through all the videogames and computer games and movies you loved in the last two decades. He names checks the early Atari systems. He mentions every arcade game I've ever played. He talks about the various quirks of games like Pacman and Tempest. There is a couple wanders through Wargames and Holy Grail.
It was fun to recognize everything he talked about. But it all seemed very contrived. The story was kind of slight. There was more talk about the peripheral stuff than there was about the actual characters.
On the one hand it was a great wallow in Nostalgia. don't get me wrong, I wallow constantly. But this seemed a bit too much. I think El Dingo needs to read this one and give us another view.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit
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