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Lost In A Good Game (Paperback)
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Lost In A Good Game (Paperback)
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Loot Price R257
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'Etchells writes eloquently ... A heartfelt defence of a demonised
pastime' The Times 'Once in an age, a piece of culture comes along
that feels like it was specifically created for you, the beats and
words and ideas are there because it is your life the creator is
describing. Lost In A Good Game is exactly that. It will touch your
heart and mind. And even if Bowser, Chun-li or Q-Bert weren't
crucial parts of your youth, this is a flawless victory for
everyone' Adam Rutherford When Pete Etchells was 14, his father
died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed
himself in a virtual world - first as an escape, but later to try
to understand what had happened. Etchells is now a researcher into
the psychological effects of video games, and was co-author on a
recent paper explaining why WHO plans to classify 'game addiction'
as a danger to public health are based on bad science and (he
thinks) are a bad idea. In this, his first book, he journeys
through the history and development of video games - from Turing's
chess machine to mass multiplayer online games like World of
Warcraft- via scientific study, to investigate the highs and lows
of playing and get to the bottom of our relationship with games -
why we do it, and what they really mean to us. At the same time,
Lost in a Good Game is a very unusual memoir of a writer coming to
terms with his grief via virtual worlds, as he tries to work out
what area of popular culture we should classify games (a relatively
new technology) under.
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