Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games

A hilarious, heartfelt and nostalgic memoir about the classic video games that entertain and inspire us, and even hold the power to transform our lives, from an Emmy®-nominated television writer, stand-up comedian and former writer for Nintendo, the perfect nonfiction read for fans of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.

You may know Mike Drucker for his Emmy®-nominated comedy writing on shows like The Tonight Show, or from his work at Nintendo on games such as Kid Icarus: Uprising. Perhaps his riotous social media feed or his jokes online had you laughing out loud. But at the heart and soul of his career in comedy are the video games he grew up playing as a kid, and the ones that changed his life as an adult.

At the ripe age of three, Mike got his very first Nintendo console--the Nintendo Entertainment System--and it was love at first Duck Hunt. As video games evolved, so did Mike. Each new game expanded his worldview, teaching him how not to love through Final Fantasy VII, how to almost kind of dance with Dance Dance Revolution, and much more. Mike knew he wanted a career in gaming and eventually took a localization job at Nintendo, but after opening for Patton Oswalt and writing freelance jokes for The Onion and Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, he realized his true calling was comedy. And even then, video games were still all he could think about.

Mike Drucker combines his love of both gaming and comedy in a rollicking tribute to the wonderful history of games and how electronic entertainment deeply influences our lives. Nostalgic and revealing, caustic and biting, yet most of all, unabashedly funny, Good Game, No Rematch is a love letter to video games and dedicated to the people who were born to hold a controller--or for just about anybody looking to laugh.

© 2025 Harlequin Audio (Hörbuch): 9781488233418

Erscheinungsdatum

Hörbuch: 1. April 2025