About this Event
For a change of scenery we're gonna be down the road at Loading Bar to celebrate the launch of Keza MacDonald's new book, Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun! She'll be in conversation with fellow Guardians game journalist Keith Stuart (A Boy Made of Blocks), and there'll be a chance to buy the book, get your copy signed and play some games in the downstairs social space after.
Super Nintendo finds lifelong gamer Keza MacDonald exploring Nintendo’s legendary roster of games – as well as consoles such as the SNES, Gameboy, Wii and Switch, and a host of other quirky inventions from the Power Glove to Nintendo Labo – drawing from decades’ worth of exclusive interviews with their creators and the people whose lives have been changed by them. Along the way, she tells the story of how this unassuming playing card company, founded in Kyoto in 1889, became one of the dominant cultural forces of the twenty-first century.
Keza MacDonald is video games editor at The Guardian; she writes the ‘Pushing Buttons’ newsletter for the newspaper. Having previously held editorial roles at IGN and Kotaku, two of the biggest specialist games websites in the world, she is also the co-author of You Died: The Dark Souls Companion with Jason Killingsworth and regularly appears on TV and radio as a video games expert.
Keith Stuart is an author and journalist. His heartwarming debut novel, A Boy Made of Blocks, was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and a major bestseller. His third novel, The Frequency of Us, was a BBC2 Between the Covers pick and Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. Keith has written for publications including Empire, Red and Esquire, and is the former games editor of the Guardian. He lives with his wife and two sons in Frome, Somerset.
is a gaming based on Stoke Newington High Street that boasts library including dozens of board games for all ages and group sizes, modern and retro consoles and a few arcades. One member of bookshop staff has spent a not-insigifcant amount on Resident Evil-themed cocktails there.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Loading Bar, 129 Stoke Newington High Street, London, United Kingdom
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