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So the fact that it's back in print is exciting the last time I bought this book it was used on eBay for like 35 bucks.

The fact that I can get it now, but even now even though a lot of what's in this book has become almost common knowledge for shows like this, but this is sort of the legacy on which podcasts discussions were built.

This and things like like masters of doom and a few other books from around the same period. This is one of the really good ones and to this day remains relevant and important.

Well thank you so much for saying so. Yeah, so it also I wanted to note that the last time I was on Nintendo Voice Chat, we actually this is where this is the show on which I announced this book or the remake, the remaster as you were of power up.

Yeah, so now it's finally here and you guys have had your copies and it's just very exciting for me to actually have it available again, but it is so funny.

It's so weird that I'm this is now the point in my career where I am getting people telling me like, oh yeah, I read this book and it inspired me to go into video game journalism or I read this book and it inspired me to go I ran into the the head I'm at the head of

VR at epic like their technical head of virtual reality and he was like, oh yeah, I went to Japan during college and I read power up on the way there and it was like, that's it.

This is this is what I want to do with my life. I want to get into video games and he wrote his thesis about Japanese games and now he's running VR.

Yeah, I can keep say a video game reading list that we reprimote every now and then and this has been on it for a long time. I'm really excited that people can finally buy it not just.

That's the best part. And finally you can get it in ebook form if you want it in ebook form so it's great.

Yeah, and it's nice. It was very scary for me. I mean, I came on the show and talked about how we're going to republish it and super excited, but at the same time I was kind of scared because like, it's like this is something I wrote a long time ago.

I was between the ages of 21 and 24 when I wrote it and I know that guy and he was a real jerk. So like, are people going to like this book or not?

And generally, I mean, the reaction has been really positive. It's been really great. So I'm glad to have it out there again to be consumed in the format that people want to consume it in, not have to get it for $35. I'm so sorry that you had to pay that much for it.

I thought it also secondhand as well, like off of, yeah, I believe it was Amazon, but you know, and coming, so in coming back to the original premise for this book was, you know, Chris, you've set on the show and you've said in other places.

This was your graduate thesis essentially at Tufts University where you were studying Japanese and Japanese culture side note for folks listening to the show.

If you want to hear more about that experience and, you know, someone who helped inspire this book come together, Jerry has a podcast called Pockets Full of Soup, where Chris appeared as a guest to talk in deeper detail about that.

We went deep into college. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was very kind of you to bring that up. Yeah, no, no worries. But your thesis was about the cinematic Japanese video game.

Yeah, it was like asking this question of, okay, well, Japanese movies didn't really become popular outside of Japan. Japanese anime, too, at that point, had not really become so popular.

Now of course it's very popular and inspires. I think if you look at a lot of American animation right now, it's inspired from, you know, kids, you know, who grew up watching Sailor Moon and then became the anime boom.

Yeah, totally. Yeah.

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