Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

by Tom Bissell

Book Overview

Combining the author's personal experience with interviews of some of the leading game designers at work today, "Extra Lives" is an insightful--and highly entertaining--appraisal of this ubiquitous... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307474313
• ISBN13: 9780307474315
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent, informative, highly entertaining

I wasn't sure about this book at first, not knowing anything about the author, thinking he would just be rambling on about video games, but, being a game fanatic since 1982, he is spot on, made me realize a few things and I learned a few things along the way. I love his use of not-commonly used "big words" and there are a few places that actually made me laugh out loud.