A great book and old school roleplaying...

Greetings Starfighter...


This week I started reading the book 'Ready Player One' by Ernest Cline. This fellow has knocked it out of the park!

The book is sort of a mixture of Tron, the Dungeons & Dragons RPG, and every pop culture icon from the '80s. At times I feel like the book was written just for me because it has everything I love in it. There are so many obscure 80s references too like the cheesy B-movie 'Hawk the Slayer' and my favorite cartoon of all time 'Thundarr the Barbarian.'


The list goes on... Knight Rider, Airwolf, Back to the Future, Family Ties...
Ernest Cline is a guy after my own heart.


I'm also excited to learn that this book is being fast tracked into a movie that will be directed by Steven Spielberg and will be shot right here in the great state of Louisiana. I hope they decide to go the multi-movie route with this one.


If you grew up in the 80s and enjoyed the tv shows, movies and video games of that era... then this book is a must read!

He has a new book out called Armada that I'm gonna pick up as soon as I'm done reading this one.


Reading this book has made me relive some of my childhood... especially the coin op video games I would play, like Joust, Defender and Dig Dug... and the awesome role playing games I would play with my friends like Dungeons and Dragons (the grand daddy of all RPGs) and others like "Gamma World," "Star Frontiers" and "Top Secret."

I really miss those RPGs. They were lots of fun and made you use your imagination to totally immerse yourself into those fantasy worlds. It was like acting out a movie in your brain and you were the hero in the story.




There's a new game shop in town called Cerebro. I may just have to look into getting a Gamma World game going in there at least one night a week.

Until next time... happy role playing!


- Patrick Shawn Bennett
broadcasting live from Flynn's Arcade...