Thursday, February 16th, 2012
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The Martin Amis Videogame Guide

"It’s a deeply strange artifact: an A4-sized, full color glossy affair, abundantly illustrated with captioned photographs, screen shots, and lavish illustrations of exploding space ships and lunar landscapes. It boasts a perfunctory introduction by Steven Spielberg ('read this book and learn from young Martin’s horrific odyssey round the world’s arcades before you too become a video-junkie'), complete with full-page portrait of the Hollywood Boy Wonder leaning awkwardly against an arcade machine like some sort of geeky, high-waisted Fonz. We’re not even into the text proper, and already its cup runneth over with 100-proof WTF."
Mark O'Connell examines Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict’s Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best Machines, by Martin Amis.

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Mr. B (#10,093)

100-Proof WTF would be a good name, etc.

barnhouse (#1,326)

WOW I enjoyed that piece. Ha.

LondonLee (#922)

I've read it and it's not as good as Philip Roth's "How To Win At KerPlunk"

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