nickm, jscott, ibogost, asteroids, the BEAM - I can't keep u

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost's new book is out! I am updating this at work, so the opening post here is gonna be crap:

HERE is an article on boston.com that has Jason Scott's Asteroids machine in it. I haven't read the article yet:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas ... _montfort/

HERE is the page for Racing the Beam, the book in question (and it has a link you can use to purchase the book):
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/de ... &tid=11696

HERE is Jason's web log entry about the book:
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1858

(And as soon as I find my wallet, I'm gonna buy the book, so you'll have my take on it shortly as well.)

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Our very own Bruce was mentioned in this book, as was his Lord of the Rings text game for the Atari 2600!

I will say that this book has created the desire in me to own a few 2600 games.

[bruce]

Our very own Bruce was mentioned in this book, as was his Lord of the Rings text game for the Atari 2600!

I will say that this book has created the desire in me to own a few 2600 games.

Seriously?

It's on order, but hasn't gotten here yet.

Bruce

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Yeah. I won't go into detail SO AS NOT TO SPOIL THE SURPRISE.

I will say that it is awesome that a guy who did a book on text games also did a book on 2600 games that has a chapter on Adventure for the 2600, which was inspired by the text game Adventure, by Crowther and Woods.