Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered The World

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Nov 2, 2011 - Business & Economics - 288 pages
More American children recognize Super Mario, the hero of one of Nintendo’s video games, than Mickey Mouse. The Japanese company has come to earn more money than the big three computer giants or all Hollywood movie studios combined. Now Sheff tells of the Nintendo invasion–a tale of innovation and cutthroat tactics.
 

Contents

A New Leader of the Club
In Heavens Hands
I Mario
Inside the Mother Brain
Coming to America
For a Fistful of Quarters
Reversal of Fortune
Enter the Dragon
The Big Sleep
Game Over
From Russia with Love
The Tetris Song
Sonic Boom
Borders
Forest of Illusions
Selected Bibliography

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
Game Masters

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About the author (2011)

David Sheff’s articles have appeared in Playboy, Rolling Stone, The Observer, and Foreign Literature (in Russia), among other publications, and he has written for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. His book The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono was a Literary Guild Selection. Sheff lives with his family in Northern California.

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