Extremely interesting and engaging for 150 of it's 227 pages, but gets a little boring and loses focus by the end. Still, Sudnow's observations are extremely astute and come from a naive place that game studies in 2020 would have to do a lot of work to deprogram itself enough to autonomously appreciate. Essentially, what I'm saying is that David Sudnow was noticing things about the ways sights and sounds and touch, or the body et al, matter in the act of playing games that game studies for a lot of decades has neglected or completely denied acknowledging. In 2020 we have brain worms, in 1983 Sudnow had a child- or alien-like perspective on something we've become way too familiar with. ( )