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All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture Harold Goldberg
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group

Lots of video game refuseniks turn up their noses at the medium because they lack context—no who, what, when and why. Title: All Your Base Are Belong to Us. For starters, can there really be fifty years of history? Harold Goldberg's cultural history of the video game medium—oh, it's also a sci-fi novel—brings the folks who made and make video games into sharp detail, illuminating the quirks, passions and crackling lightning bolts of genius that spawned hits like All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Cul. The book's full title is All Your Base Are Belong to Us: how fifty years of videogames conquered pop culture. That's his new book All Your Base Are Belong to Us: 50 Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture. Harold Goldberg's new book, All Your Base Are Belong to Us—How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture, amazed me from the moment I picked it up. In big, bold, pixellated letters, this book was shouting in code: “Hey, geeks! Harold Goldberg is the author of All Your Base Are Belong To Us, How 50 Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture, for Random House, due out on April 5, 2011. Over here!” Up close, I could see the subtitle: how Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture. Shepherd's Pie with Sweet Potatoes. Tags: 3D, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Videogames. I thought that it sounded interesting, even if that meme is a dried-out husk by now.