Poetry For The Gaming Crowd Reviewed

Thanks to Game Girl Advance for their review of the videogame-related poetry book, 'Blue Wizard Is About To Die'. The reviewer comments: "Video games, the interactive art of corresponding actions to on screen visuals and audio cues, are inherently difficult to show. But who'd have thought that it'd be a poet from Las Vegas to finally get the feeling that goes along with video games right?" We've previously mentioned this unique book, which has an official website proclaiming that the tome "takes its readers on a psychotic and hilarious tour through the arcade and console games of the Eighties (and beyond)", and has garnered both effusive and not quite so positive reviews along the way.

Comments

A video game haiku

[seraph93]

Rounding the corner
A head shot, unexpected
Damn you, camping fag

I'd recommend buying the book

[Chuck Chunder]

For someone you really don't like.

I had the misfortune to start reading the sample Joust "poem" and I'm still recovering.

JOUST:

i don't think there is much doubt that riding an ostrich
is pretty gay, especially when done as some part of a renaissance festival gone
horribly
horribly
wrong;
but gliding on those wings, those feeble orange and yellow wings,

Oh for fucks sake....

An NES Haiku

[SuperMo0]

I put the game in
I jimmy the cartridge and hope
The damn thing will play