A hilarious, heartfelt and nostalgic memoir about the classic video games that entertain and inspire us, and even hold the power to transform our lives, from an Emmy®-nominated comedian and former video game writer for Nintendo, the perfect nonfiction read for fans of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.
You may know Mike Drucker for his Emmy®-nominated comedy writing or his hilarious skits on The Tonight Show and Saturday Night Live. Perhaps his riotous social media feed or his jokes online had you laughing out loud. But at the heart and soul of his career in comedy are the video games he grew up playing as a kid.
At the ripe age of three, Mike got his very first Nintendo console, and it was love at first Duck Hunt. As video games evolved, so did Mike, each new game expanding his worldview and teaching him all about football through NFL Blitz, how to dance (kind of) with Dance Dance Revolution and much more. Mike knew he wanted a career in gaming and eventually took a job at Nintendo, but after opening for Patton Oswalt and writing freelance for SNL, he realized his true calling was comedy.
Mike combines his love of both gaming and writing in a rollicking tribute to the wonderful history of games and how electronic entertainment deeply influences our lives. Nostalgic and revealing, caustic and biting, yet most of all, unabashedly funny, Good Game, No Rematch is a love letter to video games and on writing, dedicated to the people who were born to hold a controller and to just about anybody looking to laugh.