Praise for Play Britannia

The Geeks Have Inherited The Earth

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Iain Simons's

Play Britannia

About Play Britannia

It's not a well-known story, but the history of computer games is a very British history. In 1983, twenty-year-old Jeff Minter started Llamasoft in his bedroom in Reading, a company which became a cult, selling millions of games worldwide. A year earlier, brothers Chris and Tim Stamper founded Rare in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, going on to create many of Nintendo's most famous and enduring times. Similar stories lie behind the the creation of world-leading, billion-selling games like Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Grand Theft Auto.

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Author is the director of the world-famous GAMECity convention (www.gamecity.org) sponsored by Microsoft, GI.biz, a number of Nottingham based firms, TT Games, Lego and BAFTA and represented by top Games PR firm Lincoln Beasley * Author has published four previous books on gaming, including 100 Videogames, Inside Game Design (Laurence King) and Difficult Questions about Videogames * Colour plate section * Great for nostalgia promotions and for Father's Day * Features favourites from the eighties - the games we played as kids. * Fascinating insight into how the geeks inherited the earth

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