SOLVED. Children's/ Middle Grade Humor, late 1980s: Collection of spoof video games, one where the player is Richard Dawson and you try to kiss as many contestants as possible. [s]

[Linda]

My brother and I are trying to remember this book we had back in the late 1980s. It was a small paperback, probably around 100 pages or fewer. It was a collection of spoof arcade video games, so each single page contained a simple drawing of what the video game might look like, along with a description below it of the title and details of the game.

Each game was humorous, but the only one that we actually remember was where the player controls the floating head of Richard Dawson (the host from the Family Feud game show) and you are supposed to try and kiss as many of the contestants as possible. We had this book in the latter half of the 1980s, I think, in the beginning era of Nintendo.

Thank you!

[Rainbowheart]

Blips!: The First Book of Video Game Funnies?

[Linda]

Rainbowheart wrote: "Blips!: The First Book of Video Game Funnies?"

Yes!!! That's it! Thank you so much.

I wasn't sure if I recognized the cover of the book right away, but I found this blog post that contains some of the inside pages, and I definitely remember all of them. It looks like the spoof video games was just a section of the book, and not the entire book itself.

I'm off to find a used copy and send it to my brother. :)

[Rainbowheart]

Awesome, glad that was the right one!