but enjoyable? Do you recommend? we're a bit on the tail end of it... but yah... that rings true.a seminal work of cyberpunk
video games that become harder and harder until you eventually succumb was a keenly Cold War mentality about entertainment.
It was written in '88. It's about Zaibatsus and terrorism and killer drones and rastafarians, as most of them were. It was "near future" back then; it's now "alternate future." I reckon it's aged a lot better than the Walter Jon Williams stuff but it hasn't proven to be nearly as seminal as William Gibson. This was an '88 perspective on '81 and '82. Legend of Zelda had been out for two years by then; people were clearly expecting more from video games already. The Berlin Wall was a year from falling. I would say it was a fairly insightful viewpoint for the time.we're a bit on the tail end of it... but yah... that rings true.
Hah, we did the same thing growing up! Cowboys and Indians (...yikes...) / Cops and Robbers, though.
I was constantly aware. We knew where the major strike was likely to be, what the fallout would be, what missile would carry it...