To be blunt, David Sheff knocked this book out of the ballpark. The story of Nintendo's rise to power would likely have been interesting on its own, but Sheff's research clearly goes above and beyond what I had anticipated, making for a meticulously detailed, extremely gripping story (there were two chapters devoted to how Nintendo obtained the rights to Tetris, and I promise that that. The words used to describe them were those usually reserved to describe forms of intimacy between people. It was as if the players and the game itself somehow merged.” ― David Sheff, Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World. Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered The World - Ebook written by David Sheff. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered The World. Free download or read online Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered The World pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in January 1st 1993, and was written by David Sheff. The book was published in multiple languages including, consists of 288 pages and is available in ebook format.
Author’s Biography
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David Sheff is the author of Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, Clean, Game Over, All We Are Saying, and other books. His latest book is The Buddhist on Death Row: How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place. David is the founder of the Beautiful Boy Fund, devoted to supporting quality, evidence-based treatment for substance-use disorders and research to further the field of addiction medicine.
Beautiful Boy, a number-one New York Times bestseller, was based on his article, “My Addicted Son,” which appeared in the New York Times Magazine and won a special award from the American Psychological Association for “outstanding contribution to the understanding of addiction.” Beautiful Boy was named the year’s Best Nonfiction Book by Entertainment Weekly, and it won first place in the Barnes and Noble Discover Award in nonfiction. In 2009, David was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine’s list of the World’s Most Influential People. A feature film adaptation of “Beautiful Boy” was produced by Amazon Studios and Plan B Entertainment and starred Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet.
David followed Beautiful Boy with Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy, also a New York Times bestseller. The book was the result of the years David spent investigating the disease of addiction and America’s drug problem, which he sees as the greatest public health challenge of our time. The Partnership for Drug-free Kids honored him with a Special Tribute Award “in recognition of his voice and leadership for families who are struggling with addiction.” For his work educating about substance-use disorders and advocating for sufferers of addiction, David received awards from the College of Problems on Drug Dependence, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and American Society of Addiction Medicine. He was the first recipient of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry Arts and Literature Award.
David also contributed to HBO’s Addiction: Why Can’t They Just Stop. Along with The New York Times Magazine, he has written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone and other publications, and has conducted seminal interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Ai Weiwei, Steve Jobs, Ansel Adams, Betty Friedan, Keith Haring, Jack Nicholson and many others. He also wrote award-winning radio specials about John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, both for National Public Radio.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote that David’s The Buddhist on Death Row “shows vividly how, even in the face of the greatest adversity, compassion and a warm-hearted concern for others bring peace and inner strength.' Annie Lamott called it “a beautiful, profoundly spiritual book,” and said, “Reading it changed me, threw the lights on, opened and gentled my heart.” David’s Game Over was called “the bible of the videogame industry” by The Wall Street Journal and “beguiling” and “irresistible. . . almost as hypnotic as a successful video game” by The New York Times. Author Gore Vidal wrote that China Dawn, David’s book about the Internet revolution in China, is a “fascinating…study of go–getting businessmen in a revived China bound to shape our future.” All We Are Saying, based on David’s interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1980, was a Literary Guild Selection book.
David graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives with his family in Northern California.
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“David Sheff knows addiction as no parent would ever want. Through it all, he’s tapped into a unique ability to convey the pain, wisdom and love that he’s experienced through many turbulent years with his son Nic. As a journalist, father and clear-eyed chronicler of addiction, David is without peer.”
– Sanjay Gupta, MD
Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN
“David Sheff wrote a book in 2008 that became a kind of landmark. Beautiful Boy, a painful, personal story of the battle he tried to fight with and alongside his son, Nic, who was addicted to methamphetamines. The book became an international best-seller and made David Sheff one of the country’s most prominent voices on addiction — not as a doctor, an addict or an academic expert, but as a father. Sheff has continued to try to figure out a road that can lead out of addiction, and he presents that route in his new book, Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy.”
– Scott Simon, Weekend Edition
National Public Radio
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“David Sheff is a skilled journalist on an urgent mission. He prevailed over the anger and hopelessness he felt at his son’s affliction by calling upon great reserves of love and discipline to investigate what might help — first as a father and then, in this book, as a reporter and an advocate. His forbearance and clearheadedness could serve as an example for America as it confronts its drug problem. He has performed a vital service by compiling sensible advice on a subject for which sensible advice is in short supply.”
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– New York Times Book Review