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1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 25 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Peter Berkrot. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Clune, Michael W. -- Childhood and youth.
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Video games -- History.
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Video games -- History.
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Video gamers -- United States -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Berkrot, Peter, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Game life |
| ISBN |
9781427271150 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1427271151 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11994254 |
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