Soft and cuddly by jarett kobek, about the Sinclair zx spectrum game.
Very funny and with a few interesting thoughts about post war British politics and thatcher, for an American.
And some good stuff about the ramshackle nature of British computing in the 80s.
One of those I started reading thinking it was very lightweight but then you get drawn in. Very good chapter all about how the game makes literally no sense and seems designed to frustrate the player. Also the designer was a scouser.
I never had a spectrum (had an Acorn my mum borrowed for us from school and then an archimedes a3000) but my friend did and I remember that colour bleed. The trail that followed you round the screen.
This guy who made soft and cuddly used the bug of the bleed as a feature to make his animations work, in a very idiosyncratic custom coding way. Boss.
I've ordered kobek's new book "motor spirit" (amazon print on demand) about the zodiac murders.