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Not a love story. Something harder: two best friends, thirty years, and every game they couldn't stop making together. 🎮
Sam Masur and Sadie Green meet as children in a hospital game room, fall out, reunite as students and spend decades making video games together through fame, envy, disability and terrible loss.
Sam Masur and Sadie Green meet as children in a hospital in the 1980s, bonding over video games before a six-year separation. They reunite as university students in Boston and, with Sam's roommate Marx Watanabe, found a game studio called Unfair Games, whose first title becomes a hit.
In print (Knopf/Vintage in the US, Chatto & Windus in the UK); widely available from libraries (Libby/Hoopla) and as an audiobook. Not public domain.
Heads up: A workplace shooting and a suicide.
Age: Ages 16+
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series, “Prudence”