Jolt Country

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.)

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.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: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

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.