FREE TERRIBLE OLD GAMES YOUVE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF PDF Stuart Ashen | 192 pages | 01 Mar 2016 | Cornerstone | 9781783522569 | English | London, United Kingdom Stuart Ashen Breaks Crowdfunding Records – TenEighty — Internet culture in focus Launched in May, the campaign is currently the top-funded book on the Unbound website. Click here to learn more! TenEighty uses cookies. Like most websites, TenEighty uses functional cookies and external scripts. You can choose whether or not to opt into those here. If you want to change your settings in the future, you can return to this menu via Terrible Old Games Youve Probably Never Heard of. NOTE: These settings will only apply to the browser and device you are currently using. We use Google AdSense to generate revenue from visits to our website. Google will display ads that it believes are relevant to you based on your browsing history, and we will earn a small amount of money from any interactions you have with them. 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You can find out more about this and return to this menu via teneightymagazine. Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of (TV Series – ) - IMDb Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Everyone's heard of E. There are people who seriously believe that Shaq Fu is the worst fighting game ever made, having never experienced Dangerous Streets on the Amiga. This book will blow their very soul apart. Not a guarantee. Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of is meticulously researched and written, with the dry humour you'd expect from a Terrible Old Games Youve Probably Never Heard of who has somehow made a living by sticking rubbish on a sofa and talking about it. Each entry is accompanied by a series of full-colour images from the games. Get A Copy. More Details Other Editions 3. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Dec 07, Simon P rated it it was ok. Way too short, functional look at the world of nascent video gaming. This book is not without its charms. A few times I laughed and giggled at the competent, self-deprecating, journalistic style of writing, and it reminded me hugely of reading Computer and Video Games, Your Sinclair and Sinclair User magazines in the 80s, poring through the reviews to find a game I could buy that wasn't broken or awful. The author is clearly a pretty funny, geeky guy, and I wanted to keep reading. This was as disappointing as the lamentable games reviewed. There is no coherent theme bringing these games together either, rather they are just games picked by the author, and it therefore is too personal a guide: it states that widely-acknowledged terrible games like ET would not be mentioned, but I kind of think you HAVE to include a section on them, otherwise the book is merely a memoir - which by the way, the Unbound model of publishing seems to encourage hugely, and which by the way, I do not enjoy: See Rose Bretecher's "Pure", promising a personal look at a unique mental health issue, delivering a weak memoir nobody could possibly be interested in. There are contributions from other people you won't have heard of in this book too, but they are short and poorly-written for the most part, as if the contributors banged out their vignettes in Terrible Old Games Youve Probably Never Heard of minutes. There was one exception, the high point of the book for me, a short piece on working for a game company in the 80s by a graphic designer: more of this please; less of the random person picking a game they didn't like and then explaining in no more than 20 words that they didn't like it "because it was bad. Not suited to the original Kindle due to colour graphics, and poorly formatted on my iPad Kindle app. The book, while fairly enjoyable for video game enthusiasts, is true to the form of the games described within: promised much on the cover, delivered too little, and not Terrible Old Games Youve Probably Never Heard of quality tested. View all 6 comments. I'm a fan of YouTube and all-round internet celeb Ashens and it was impossible not to read this in his sardonic tones. It avoided the usual terrible videogame punch bags such as 'ET' and 'Superman 64' which was refreshing. Instead concentrating on obscure British computer games which may have only cost a couple of pounds, but still stabbed the hapless buyer with a jagged 8-bit knife of disappointment. As the dreaded realisation hit that you'd spent your meagre pocket money on an unplayable pup of I'm a fan of YouTube and all-round internet celeb Ashens and it was impossible not to read this in his sardonic tones. As the dreaded realisation hit that you'd spent your meagre pocket money on an unplayable pup of a cassette. What was in the book was very enjoyable, with the poor targets providing many laughs and a few guest writers chipping in too. The problem was that it was a slim volume and was all over very quickly. I was having great fun and then it was finished. Leave the crowd wanting more I guess. I hope Mr. Ashen writes another volume, or ten, I'll certainly be onboard, but a little more content per load would be lovely. Dec 04, Mark Green rated Terrible Old Games Youve Probably Never Heard of really liked it. Good humor book, especially for Ashens fans: the writing is very conversational and reads very much like one of his famous video reviews. Wisely, the games selected are not just terrible but terrible for funny reasons such as the game about a bionic granny walloping children with her umbrella for no reason and it includes interviews with several industry figures and a brief discussion of the games industry at the time. Some of them even have some digging into the history of the games and the r Good humor book, especially for Ashens fans: the writing is very conversational and reads very much like one of his famous video Terrible Old Games Youve Probably Never Heard of. Some of them even have some digging into the history of the games and the reason for the problems with them - I'd have liked to see more of this, but since this is a humor book rather than a documentary it's hard to complain about. The only real flaw? It's a bit short, and the reviews spend perhaps a bit too much time on relatively generic comments about how bad the games are "when you come to play it you'll wish you were doing literally anything else" Other than that, this is a great Christmas book for the retrogamer or Ashens fan. Jan 25, Alice rated it really liked it. I like Ashens's channel, and you could definitely hear his voice in the writing, which was good. Enjoyable book about games that, true to the title, I'd never heard of for the most part. Bought the kindle edition, based on book content alone would give it four stars, but if I Terrible Old Games Youve Probably Never Heard of I would give Terrible Old Games Youve Probably Never Heard of 3. Feb 13, Alex Sarll added it. Self-explanatory book which more than once caused me to laugh to the point of physical incapacity. The sort of volume ideal for leaving by the loo, except that I only have it on ebook so that would be a terrible idea. I understand the author to be some manner of YouTube celeb; I've never really grasped the appeal of watching someone I don't already know talk about stuff, rather than simply reading an article, but he's bloody good at knowing how best to mix deadpan, hyperbole, and damning screens Self-explanatory book which more than once caused me to laugh to the point of physical incapacity. I understand the author to be some manner of YouTube celeb; I've never really grasped the appeal of watching someone I don't already know talk about stuff, rather than simply reading an article, but he's bloody good at knowing how best to mix deadpan, hyperbole, and damning screenshots.