Sunday, 18 February 2024

Alrightreads: Games V

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, Shooting Stars with Reeves and Mortimer

1996 / Ebook / 120 pages

**

The game was the least interesting aspect of the show, and this DIY dilution seems awkward and fiddly, but their Viz-style top tips elsewhere gave some chuckles.


Mike Dugdale, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Ultimate Quiz Book

2012 / Ebook / 33 pages

**

"Ultimate" is overselling this blog post with ideas above its space station, but it put me through my paces, scoring a respectable 123/150 (though I dispute what counts as a two-parter, and the false claim that PKD's 'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale' is a novel). There were also at least five typos, can't win 'em all.


Rusel DeMaria and Zach Meston, Sonic the Hedgehog 1 & 2: Sega's Official Player's Guide

1993 / Ebook / 173 pages

****

About time I learned how to play these. Why are all the badniks gendered as male? Because they don't have ribbons and big eyelashes, I guess.


Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

2020 / Audiobook / 446 pages

***

A gamer's gateway to reading, like adventure gamebooks didn't nail that in the 8-bit era.


Callista J. Hawkes, Spurtacus: A Choose Your Own Erotic Story

2014 / Ebook / 237 pages

**

An authentic slavery simulator, particularly in the way it teases you with the illusion of choice. They don't care if you've got a headache.