What book are you reading, and what do you think of it?

[elsmere241]

Right now I'm in the middle of What cartooning really is: The major interviews with Charles M. Schulz.

[ZLoth]

I finished Once upon Atari: How I Made History by Killing an Industry this afternoon. This book is written and narrated by Howard Scott Warshaw (HSW) who created three Atari games: Yar's Revenge, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the infamous ET. The book switches from the New Mexico excavation on April 26, 2014 and the HSW's history with Atari. We also get insights on the HSW's first two games which had several months of development time verses ET's five week development cycle. I liked how HSW changed his voice when he gives notes and explanations to the non-nerd.

One of the challenges is that the Atari 2600 was a now-aging platform having been released in September, 1977 with known technical limitations.