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6/18/2025, 2:25:12 AM
>>11806917
In that vein, I highly recommend The Winners Book by Kubey - imo the best of those early guidebooks. Kubey went above and beyond interviewing people at arcade companies, providing historical details and loads of colorful anecdotes about the early days - stuff lost to time like some anonymous girl that used the initials ANA who had a winning method of playing Asteroids that Kubey ran into at the Circus Circus casino so then he names that technique "circus circus", the GET brothers Pacman patterns at a donut place, weird regional shit like naming the UFOs in Asteroids after leave it to Beaver characters, etc. Author's colorful language for disliked games. etc.
As an autist kid into old games in the 90s, finding that book in the library was like a bible, was lucky to buy two nos copies from a dollar store years later.
https://archive.org/details/Winners_Book_of_Video_Games/mode/2up
In that vein, I highly recommend The Winners Book by Kubey - imo the best of those early guidebooks. Kubey went above and beyond interviewing people at arcade companies, providing historical details and loads of colorful anecdotes about the early days - stuff lost to time like some anonymous girl that used the initials ANA who had a winning method of playing Asteroids that Kubey ran into at the Circus Circus casino so then he names that technique "circus circus", the GET brothers Pacman patterns at a donut place, weird regional shit like naming the UFOs in Asteroids after leave it to Beaver characters, etc. Author's colorful language for disliked games. etc.
As an autist kid into old games in the 90s, finding that book in the library was like a bible, was lucky to buy two nos copies from a dollar store years later.
https://archive.org/details/Winners_Book_of_Video_Games/mode/2up
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