Speccy Nation (book)
Posted: April 13th, 2016, 1:34 pm
Speccy Nation
By Dan Whitehead (a veteran video games journalist)
Cost: 99 cents for ebook
Duration: 125 pages
A 2012 book about the British Sinclair Spectrum, the rainbow clad computer that seemed to excite British youth in the 80s far more successfully than the Apples, Commodores, Texas Instruments and Tandys did here in the former colonies.
The book is full of enthusiasm and many colorful British sayings, but its fatally flawed for newbies. There are no graphics at all. The book is a list of game reviews, nothing else, that quickly just blur together.
Maybe the best way to discuss a video game is with a video. If not video, then at least a photo. Even here at VGC.com, I don't read The Critics reviews one after the other, page after page. Reviews are best if played through. Play the game, read the review, discuss.
Not having a Speccy, not knowing these games, the book - even as cute as the language is - is not engaging. Thats unfortunate as I wanted to learn more.
By Dan Whitehead (a veteran video games journalist)
Cost: 99 cents for ebook
Duration: 125 pages
A 2012 book about the British Sinclair Spectrum, the rainbow clad computer that seemed to excite British youth in the 80s far more successfully than the Apples, Commodores, Texas Instruments and Tandys did here in the former colonies.
The book is full of enthusiasm and many colorful British sayings, but its fatally flawed for newbies. There are no graphics at all. The book is a list of game reviews, nothing else, that quickly just blur together.
Maybe the best way to discuss a video game is with a video. If not video, then at least a photo. Even here at VGC.com, I don't read The Critics reviews one after the other, page after page. Reviews are best if played through. Play the game, read the review, discuss.
Not having a Speccy, not knowing these games, the book - even as cute as the language is - is not engaging. Thats unfortunate as I wanted to learn more.