Remus Lupin
Adventurer
Browsing around in the cultural studies section of Barnes & Noble last night, I stumbled across this book and wound up buying it.
I'm wondering if anyone else has read it or knows about it. It's a pretty good autobiography/cultural analysis of the generation of gamers that came into the hobby in the late-1970s and early 1980s (my era). The author writes about what attracted him to gaming, how it intersected with his other interests, how he drifted away from gaming, and what drew him back.
Here's the amazon.com link: [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Fantasy-Freaks-Gaming-Geeks-Imaginary/dp/1599214806/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258659805&sr=8-1]Amazon.com: Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms (9781599214801): Ethan Gilsdorf: Books[/ame]
Also, here's a little video the author did about the book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m3I2MDS9EI9K7Y
I'm wondering if anyone else has read it or knows about it. It's a pretty good autobiography/cultural analysis of the generation of gamers that came into the hobby in the late-1970s and early 1980s (my era). The author writes about what attracted him to gaming, how it intersected with his other interests, how he drifted away from gaming, and what drew him back.
Here's the amazon.com link: [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Fantasy-Freaks-Gaming-Geeks-Imaginary/dp/1599214806/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258659805&sr=8-1]Amazon.com: Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms (9781599214801): Ethan Gilsdorf: Books[/ame]
Also, here's a little video the author did about the book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m3I2MDS9EI9K7Y
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