Trapped in a Video Game Book 1 Quotes

“firing”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“The TV showed the beginning of the Hawaii level again, but this time, it zoomed in on a mosquito.”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“reached”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“portal”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“Nope! Bad theory. Bad, bad, bad theory. The creature that had heard me was now standing on its back legs and making a creepy squawking noise while the other one charged. I ran as fast as my little legs would take me. While climbing over boulders and dodging trees, I kept reaching back and wildly blasting at my attackers. Blast-blast-blast-SQUAWK! Blast-blast-blast-SQUAWK! It may not surprise you to learn that the creatures with six nimble insect legs were quickly gaining on the off-balance person who did not post a mile time to be proud of in gym class the previous week. Blast-blast-blast-SQUAWK! Blast-blast-blast-SHRIEEEEEEEEEEEK! Got one! Unfortunately, I had no time to celebrate because the mantis I had vaporized was replaced with another one who’d heard his battle cry. And then another. I found the path and continued running and blasting wildly behind me, really wishing I’d brought my inhaler. But who brings an inhaler to a video game? I blamed Eric. He should have texted, “Come over. You’re not going to believe this. Maybe bring your”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“save a video game world from fake aliens. He bravely led the resistance, which lasted for all of 10 seconds.” I looked around me. Snow and boulders everywhere,”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“Charlie, the coolest kid in our class. To clarify—Charlie isn’t the coolest kid in sixth grade because he’s actually a cool kid. He’s the coolest because his dad works for a video game company and sometimes gives Charlie’s friends early copies of games to test.”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“milk while skydiving and your skydiving buddy tells a funny joke, so you laugh the milk out of your nose, and then you throw up at the same time? No? That’s not an experience that everyone has? Well, anyways, that’s exactly how I felt after clicking “YES.” Like”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“Here lies Jesse Rigsby of Middlefield, Ohio. He was tragically taken from us by a giant praying mantis while trying to save a video game world from fake aliens. He bravely led the resistance, which lasted for all of 10 seconds.”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“chapter 3”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!” I’d yelled at the time.”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“every inch of our fake Hawaiian island. Eric was right—it was a lot smaller than I first thought. In a single afternoon, we had jet-packed over every acre of rain forest, trekked across every beach, and even hiked up the volcano. No hidden portals. At Pearl Harbor, while we were looking for an unlocked spaceship we could use to escape, Eric spoke up. “Do you think they’ll have a Mark Day for”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“this math homework. I closed my book, put on my jacket, and walked across the street to Eric’s house. The door was open, so I let myself in and walked down to the basement. “All right, let’s see it,” I said as I reached the bottom of the stairs. No booger. Also no Eric. “Come on,” I called out. I wandered into the laundry room (where the dirty clothes should be). I walked upstairs into Eric’s room (where the dirty clothes actually were). I checked behind all the doors, inside all the closets, and under all the beds. No booger. No Eric. I couldn’t believe”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“Hyperactive”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“hologram”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“asked. “You worked on Full Blast, right?” Eric asked. “Sure did! How are you enjoying it?” “Well,” Eric paused and looked at me before continuing. “It tried to kill us, but other than that it was cool.” Mr. Gregory squinted at us and cocked”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“OOF!”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“Press ‘A’ to jump.” “No! I don’t want to jump!” “Press ‘A’ to jump.”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game Book 1

“I flew around Hawaii by jetpack.”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game: Book One

“AHHHHHHHH!” “NAP TIME’S OVER, MAGGOT!” The two eyes were attached to a snarling drill sergeant who seemed just like the most furious person ever. I tried backing away. “Look, I don’t… This is a big… OK, listen, if you just call my mom…” The drill sergeant did not seem interested in clearing things up with Mrs. Rigsby. Instead, he picked me up by the neck just like a bully on TV would. “Listen maggot, I don’t know how you got that blaster attached to your arm, but it’s there now, and we’re going to use it to…” The what attached to my what? I looked down. A blaster. Attached to my arm. Where my left hand should be. “AHHHHHHHHHH!” My screaming did nothing to stop the drill sergeant from continuing his little speech. “…Blast the alien scum back to whatever rock they came from. You are humanity’s only hope for…” “AHHHHHHHHHH!” “…This planet. Your mission will be long, your mission”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game: Book One

“Just in the last month, he’s told me that I wouldn’t believe a piece of toast that looked “exactly like Darth Vader” (it looked exactly like a burnt piece of toast),”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game: Book One

“Boss Battle”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game: Book One

“With no weapons to defeat the alien and no way around him, I tried the only other video game move I knew. I jumped on his head like Mario. BOING!”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game: Book One

“get sprayed in the face with a fire hose full blast than watch someone else play video games.”
― Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game: Book One