The Ultimate Game Guide To Your Life: Or, The Video Game As Existential Metaphor

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F+W Media, Nov 3, 2008 - Humor - 256 pages

For anyone who has ever felt like life is like a video game comes this faux game guide for a fictional adventure video game titled ''Your Life.''

Fans of videogames or anyone who has ever held a controller will love this romp through life's challenges from the formative Toddler Years all the way to the Retirement Home. Complete with navigation, instructions for which buttons to press on your gamepad, and secret codes for success, you'll find out all the tricks to win such challenges as ''Navigating the School Cafeteria on the First Day of High School'' and ''Temp Job Derby.'' Plus you'll learn the important skill of fending off giant robots. Gamepad not included.

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Contents

YOUR CHILDHOOD
42
YOUR ADOLESCENCE
73
YOUR COLLEGE YEARS
106
Copyright

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Christopher Monks edits the humor website McSweeney's Internet Tendency. His work has appeared in numerous print and online journals, including McSweeney's and The Morning News. He writes the popular blogs Utter Wonder and Stuck in Rehab With Pat O'Brien.

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