Video Games
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Review of The Electro-Etheric Minotaur by Damian Murphy
Damian Murphy’s new collection is my favorite of his works so far. The pervasive mode here reminded me of the film Obex in a few places.As usual, the stories take place tangential to our reality. Characters discuss video games with the seriousness of collectors, obsessors, theorizers. To truly get into a video…
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Review of Atari 2600/7800: A Visual Compendium by Bitmap Books
Makes a nice pair with the Commodore 64 volume. Bitmap Books makes immensely lavish retro video game books for readers like me, who prefer pixels to photorealism. And you get a lot of pixilation in this volume. I could complain about the book’s blocky pools of color, how the format…
