The richest and most spoiled kid in town gets a Nintendo and all the other kid ***Thank you to NetGalley for providing this free ARC copy. Story: Narrator Jake is 9 years old when the first glorious grey Nintendo Entertainment System hits the market. But really I think it's a book adults would love more - particularly adults who were children of the '80s, like I was. ![]() I put this on the "children's literature" shelf, even though it's narrated by an adult looking back on his Nintento-crazed childhood. ***Thank you to NetGalley for providing this free ARC copy. Told from a nostalgic adult perspective, 8-Bit Christmas is a hilarious and heartfelt look back at the kid pop culture of the 1980s.more proportions, filled with flaming wreaths, speeding minivans, lost retainers, fake Santas, hot teachers, snotty sisters, "Super Bowl Shuffles" and one very naked Cabbage Patch Kid. The result is a Christmas quest of Super Mario Bros. But when a hyperactive Shih Tzu is accidentally crushed to death by a forty-two-inch television set and every parent in town blames Nintendo, it's up to Jake to take matters into his own hands. No Jose Canseco rookie card, no GI Joe hovercraft, no Teddy friggin' Ruxpin-just Nintendo. But when a hyperactive Shih Tzu is accidentally crushed to death by a forty-two-inch television set and every parent in town blames Nintendo, it's up to Jake to take matters It's 1980-something and all nine-year-old Jake Doyle wants for Christmas is a Nintendo Entertainment System. It's 1980-something and all nine-year-old Jake Doyle wants for Christmas is a Nintendo Entertainment System.
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