Games World of Puzzles

•GAME ON!•

OFF THE BOOKSHELF: INVASION OF THE SPACE INVADERS

This book, recently reprinted by Jonathan Cape, is a curious relic from the early days of coin-op video games.

Novelist Martin Amis first encountered a hulking, blinking game cabinet in the summer of 1979 in a French bar. From the moment he plunked his first franc down the coin slot, he was hooked. In the

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Games World of Puzzles

Games World of Puzzles1 min read
Kid Stuff: Robot Maze
This robot has its wires all crossed! Can you figure out which cord leads to its heart, so that the robot will work when it is plugged in? ■
Games World of Puzzles1 min read
Two-way Rebuses
The goal of these puzzles is to make words containing letter sequences represented by a picture. For example, a picture of an bus would represent the letters B-U-S. When the image is reversed, so are the letters—meaning that if the image of the bus w
Games World of Puzzles1 min read
The Spiral
This puzzle turns in two directions. The spiral’s Inward clues yield a sequence of words to be entered counterclockwise in the spaces from 1 to 100. The Outward clues yield a different set of words to be entered clockwise from 100 to 1. Keep track of

Related Books & Audiobooks