{"product_id":"gamelife-a-memoir-9780865478282","title":"Gamelife: A Memoir","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGamelife: A Memoir\u003c\/strong\u003e by Clune, Michael W.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780865478282.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou have been awakened.\nFloppy 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 cant learn from people.\"\nGamelife is the memoir of a childhood transformed by technology. Afternoons spent gazing at pixelated maps and mazes train Michaels 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.\nIn telling the story of his youth through seven computer games, Michael W. Clune captures the part of childhood we live alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985851772981,"sku":"ByrdShop_0865478287","price":40.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780865478282_ac772e7c-8a39-402e-a86a-ecfc6d692edd.jpg?v=1778775311","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/gamelife-a-memoir-9780865478282","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}