Hello Triple Clickickers Triple Click, Triple Clickies. I don't know, this is Jason Shrier and I am here to tell you that I have a book coming out this week you probably heard of it. It's called Play Nice, the Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment and as a special treat

for Triple Quick listeners.

I thought I would share an audio excerpt

from the audiobook version.

This is read by Ray Chase, the prolific voice actor who also did my previous two books and might be best

known as the subway announcer in persona five.

I think he also played some final fantasy thing. I don't know. You can look him up on

IMDb. Anyway, this is the first chapter of the book in audio form and I hope you like it. The book comes out on

October 8th in hardcover digital and audio. Here it is. Enjoy.

Before he'd even graduated high school, Alan Adham knew he wanted to make video games.

It was Southern California in the 1980s, and gaming was morphing from a curious pastime into a lucrative business.

Arcades were booming, cheap home computers like the Commodore 64 were becoming living room

centerpieces, and the song Pac-Man Fever was cresting to number nine on the

Billboard Hot 100.

During lunch breaks, Adham would head to his local arcade

and blast through aliens in games like asteroids and space invaders.

At home, he and his brother convinced their dad to buy an Apple II computer,

which Adham could use both to play games and to create them.

Born Aeman Adham to Egyptian parents, an engineer and a preschool administrator, he grew obsessed with the way video games

functioned and how they made people feel. He talked about how gaming would be the new

form of entertainment synonymous with movies and stuff like that, said a college

friend. I thought he was smoking dope.

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