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A review by ghostrachel
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America by Jeff Ryan
2.0
When there are typos and spelling errors in a published book, I am immediately suspect of how factual the facts are within it. I don't mean one or two, this had the quality I would expect from a self-published e-book. Unfortunately(?) I'm not an expert on Nintendo, so I'm not sure how the book stacks up on the factchecker scale, though a quick perusal of other GR reviews confirm my intuition. Having read this immediately after "The Ultimate History of Video Games" which is full of first-hand quotes, I did notice some discrepancies between the two. It seems like the book with info from the horses mouth would probably be the correct info, and it was published a decade before this book, so it's not like it wasn't available for reference.
The style of the writing in this book is rather colloquial, like a blog or magazine article. Sometimes this familiarity works in the author's favor, just as often, it doesn't. Colloquial + typos= a feeling that I'm being fed info from a Nintendo fan hipster that's had a few PBRs. Unfair prejudice? Maybe.
Finally, I ended up skimming the last third to half of the book, I don't blame this on the author or his editor. For me, there's just not a way to jazz up the N64, Wii, DS, 3DS etc.; I'm just more interested in the early years.
The style of the writing in this book is rather colloquial, like a blog or magazine article. Sometimes this familiarity works in the author's favor, just as often, it doesn't. Colloquial + typos= a feeling that I'm being fed info from a Nintendo fan hipster that's had a few PBRs. Unfair prejudice? Maybe.
Finally, I ended up skimming the last third to half of the book, I don't blame this on the author or his editor. For me, there's just not a way to jazz up the N64, Wii, DS, 3DS etc.; I'm just more interested in the early years.