{"product_id":"tv-games-bradley-burt-9798247759065","title":"TV Games: Growing Up With Consoles","description":"Before gaming was an industry, before it became an identity, before it demanded constant attention, it was something simpler. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was called TV games. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGrowing up in South Africa in the early 1990s, Bradley Burt's introduction to video games came through bootleg Famicom consoles, shared cartridges, borrowed controllers, and a small CRT television that never quite warmed up properly. Games were scarce, time was rationed, and attention had to be earned. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTV GAMES is a quiet, observational memoir about growing up alongside video games without ever being consumed by them. Moving from knock-off consoles and endless cartridge swaps through the Mega Drive era, arcades, the arrival of the PlayStation, and eventually emulation, the book traces a relationship shaped by patience, repetition, and restraint. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not a history of gaming.\u003cbr\u003eIt is not a nostalgia piece.\u003cbr\u003eAnd it is not a celebration of progress. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInstead, TV GAMES explores what it meant to live with games when they were finite, imperfect, and honest - and how those early habits quietly survived every technological shift that followed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten in a dry, witty, and unsentimental voice, the book reflects on scarcity, attention, and why some systems endure long after the hardware disappears. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor readers interested in memory, technology, and the way ordinary experiences shape us without ever announcing themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bradley Burt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798247759065\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d","brand":"Bradley Burt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172150190335,"sku":"9798247759065","price":7.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tv-games-bradley-burt-9798247759065","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}