Man I just keep having tough videos to do lately! So my retro store (Game X-Change) closed it's doors a little while back. Heartbroken I had to look for a new one and stumbled on Trade-N-Game about the same distance away in the opposite direction. Upon going in I found a store dedicated to guys like me, very small but very cool. I bought some Atari games and a NES game and talked to the owner who was there about his shop and retro games in general. Of course I had to bring up my videos and we talked about RetrowareTV (which he had heard of) and how Racketboy had just been there last month to do an interview with him for the website.
After all that he asked me what type of videos I did and what I reviewed to which he replied "How about books?". Then he gifted me this book (my first donation!) and asked if I would review it; to which I instantly agreed. This was a hard video to first I just had issues putting it together with my scanner not working and getting decent enough scans after that. Then I got really stuck in how to present it since I had never done a video review for a book before. The scripting was easy but for a while I tossed around if it would make an interesting video and thought about going the easy route and making it just a text and picture blog review but I pushed forward. Then I had conflicts if I should do it for Retroware, "Would it be good enough?" I kept wondering; so I almost just put it on Youtube as an exclusive. But in the end I cut it together and actually liked it and thought that others would too. It is certainly not going to get as many views as a standard game review of either those obscure games or the ones with fond memories; as I'm sure like me wondering if it would be most think "Will a video about a collector book be interesting?". Hopefully it is; I'm happy with how it came out and hope you are too.
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