Posted by Brian on Monday, Jun 16, 2014
Console Wars by Blake J. Harris is a narrative account of the rivalry between Sega and Nintendo, the two video game behemoths of the nineties. The book mainly focuses on the meteoric rise of Sega and the man behind it: Tom Kalinske. Tom became the CEO of Sega of America in the late eighties, and turned Sega and its 16-bit console the Genesis from underdogs to market leaders. Console Wars details how he pulled this off. The history of Nintendo is also delved into, but, for the most part, they're portrayed as the enemy. As someone who owned a Genesis, I was surprised and interested in the inner workings of the video game industry. I highly recommend Console Wars to gamers and anyone who grew up during the nineties.
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Brian works as the Senior Adult Services Librarian at the Iowa City Public Library.
Hell or High Water was my favorite movie of 2016. Despite having a bland, studio-dictated title (the working title was far better--Comancheria), Hell or High Water was a tightly written, modern western, and it made me an immediate fan of its screen writer Taylor Sheridan. Wind River is his next film--he wrote and directed it--and it further solidified me as a fan of his. -Brian