Michael W. Clune
You have been awakened.
Floppy disk inserted, computer turned on, a whirring, and then this sentence, followed by a blinking cursor. So begins Suspended, the first computer game to obsess seven-year-old Michael, to worm into his head and change his sense of reality. Thirty years later he will write: "Computer games have taught me the things you can't learn from people."
Gamelife is the memoir of a childhood transformed by technology. Afternoons spent gazing at pixelated maps and mazes train Michael's 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.
In telling the story of his youth through seven computer games, Michael W. Clune captures the part of childhood we live alone.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
LANGUAGE | BINDING | EDITION | ISBN | YEAR | PAGES |
English | Hardcover | 9780865478287 | 2015 | 224 | |
English | Paperback | 9780374536381 | 2016 | 224 | |
English | eBook | N/A | 2015 | 224 |
AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
LANGUAGE | LENGTH | VERSION | NARRATORS | YEAR |
English | 6.5 hours | Unabridged | Peter Berkrot | 2015 |
OTHER NAMES
GAMELIFE: MEMOIR OF A CHILDHOOD
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