I flew through it, too. It's a really fun book, and I love that Spielberg is directing the film adaptation.

Loved the book and very excited for the movie, although i am really curious to see how exactly they pull off some of it on screen.

While I am a bit younger than the target audience (men in their mid-forties), I am a total D&D and arcade nerd and the book is one of my favorites of all time. While the concept isn't necessarily original it was just done in a perfect way that gets you completely hooked. I also read it in two days; at the expense of sleep mostly. I am very excited for the movie.

Absolutely awesome book. The follow-up (Armada I think) was also excellent

I loved Ready Player One but seriously struggled to finish Armada. I didn't think it was nearly as engaging or as well written.

It may be that I read Armada first... But I still thoroughly enjoyed both. Agree that RP1 was much more of a nostalgic joy ride though

Great book! The movie has the potential to be great, especially with spielberg, but i think they will run in to problems for the licensing for all the references. Bands, books, games, movies. Thats a lot to get the rights too. I have high hopes for it though and will see it opening day!

No idea how they're going to do the WarGames and Monty Python and the Holy Grail scenes, but if anyone can crack it, it's Speilberg.

I'm wondering how they'll pull off the giant "final battle." Bring in Michael Bay?

Great book! Anyone who grew up in the eighties playing games will love it.

Loved the book and it is directly responsible for me getting into the arcade hobby which eventually led to pinball

Am I also looking forward to how they get the licensing for soooooo many 80's properties.

I wasn't as big a fan of Armada than RP1, but that's probably because Armada was simply an updated telling of the plot of "The Last Starfighter"

Which, BTW, if you've never seen, is another 80's sci-fi teen classic.

"Greetings StarFighter. You have been recruited to defend the Star League against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada."

Later,
EV

Ya, Armada was a bit underwhelming but I enjoyed it never the less.

I have some time to kill on my commute, so I listened to the audiobook. Will Wheaton did the narration, and did a great job. I really liked the story, and it was one of the few audiobooks that made the crossover from commute to home because I couldn't stop listening.

I haven't checked out Armada, but I'll have to check it out.

I just looked at casting. I see TJ Miller (goofy guy from Silicon Valley) is in there. He seems like a good choice for the main character's best friend. I was thinking Miles Teller would have been a good choice for the main character.

My now 14 year old son has read this book 10+ times after I recommended it to him a few years back. Not sure how the movie will go just due to the licensing horror that it will be. The only time I can think of that a movie was able to get a big number of studios to allow it to use their IP was "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", and this movie will have a ton more. Also wish they would do a 3 parter, it would fit in better with the keys and not make it feel rushed. I will go see the movie, but I will expect to be disappointed.

Just finished the audio book. I finished it in 3 days. I couldn't stop listening. The trailer to the movie is out now. Thoughts?

http://readyplayeronemovie.com

I definitely recommend this book on audio. I'll be honest, the trailer didn't do it for me. I hope the movie is awesome though.

I have never played D&D. But this book has made me want to give it a shot/look into it. How/where would I get started having never played D&D and no understanding of the game/rules etc... may be time to watch a ton of youtube vids on it.

Could explain the great rendition of "pure imagination" in the trailer.

The book was one of my faves ever... I just hope they do it justice. The trailer was cool so that's a good sign!

anyone watch the latest trailer? They are really pushing nostalgic buttons.. everything from depeche mode music playing to the BTTF chimes at the very end

Yeah, it definitely looked very cool. Looking forward to seeing more.

I loved this book. A very easy read, but entertaining. I think I read it in 2 days. I have high hopes for this movie!

Maybe we should organize a pinball/video game/movie event.

Really good book, I don't read much, outside of binging some of my old comics every now and then. But being a child of the 80's where I went to or hosted all night D&D parties, played MUDs in college, moved on to PC LAN parties and finally graduated to online role playing games for a while, this book was perfect.

Some results of recently re-reading this book again:
- Used my MAME machine to specifically target some of the games featured in the book to try and get better, such as Joust and Black Tiger
- I realized I had never heard Rush 2112 in its entirety , found a really nice "animated" version of it on YouTube, added this Vinyl to my want collection

I'm pretty sure the movie will pale in comparison to the book, but hopefully it will be watchable. Glad they haven't given away one of the key character "twists" in the trailer, but it's visible on the IMDB page if you're not careful. You know of what I speak...

Trying to figure out if this will have a mainstream audience or just us old gamers will care about it?

It's Spielberg, and it's topical given the trajectory of VR and other emerging technologies, so I think the general public will take notice.

I'm apprehensive.. I haven't seen the newest trailer, but I fear it's going to be made in lines of the teen series we've seen so much of recently. Maybe that's all it should be, but I'm hoping for something high quality.

Just saw this. Loved it!! What a spectacle in Imax 3D.

The marketing failed this movie, because its not a movie just about pop culture references. There is a decent yarn in here, and basically references used as peripheral stuff to serve the story.

My wife read the book and said the movie improved on the book in all ways, all her criticisms of the book were addressed pretty much.

My wife read the book a while back.. I flew through it this week in preparation. I can't go see it until Sunday when she gets back from a work trip. This has been a hard wait.

Speaking of OASIS.. it's interesting to see what's available now (like VR chat)

UE4 Archviz (unreal engine):

And there is a company currently making haptic feedback gloves to feel and restrict finger movement for feeling like you're holding objects:

I usually hate it when people say this but "the book is better". The book is seriously my favorite book of all time. While the movie was very good and improved on a few things (The Shining part!), it was not as good as the book. I was really looking forward to seeing that lich for the first key. However, overall the movie was awesome and the changes made total sense for a visual media (the race instead of a dungeon playing Joust) with a limited time frame (three keys instead of three keys and three doors).

I remember reading a book about how Spielberg adapted Jurassic Park. Yeah, 2 different mediums so there will always be changes. For movies, basically it will come down to 5 scenes. So they pick 5 scenes from the book to adapt. Books themselves don't work like that since they can be unlimited and less formulaic.

My wife's comments about the changes had to do with how the female lead's part was made more integral to the movie plot, Wade being less annoying, and the pop culture references for the most part remained in background shots, instead of pages and pages of lists of them.

The change from the final key being kill-screening Robotron to being getting the easter egg in Adventure bummed me out, Robotron being my favourite videogame of all time, but it actually made more sense.

All the changes they made were fully justified for time and story-telling reasons, no complaints from me. Things like Artemis not being "chubby" is one of those things I can let go because "Hollywood" but at least she had the port-wine birthmark. And so on.

I enjoyed it quite a bit and it was cool catching all the references, not all of which were 80's - things like Overwatch made it in.

Saw the movie last night...

I’m die hard for the book, so there were several story telling aspects at irked me. There were a hand full of things they skipped with out explaining.

Where were all the ships and robots at the end?!?!?!

About the half Mark of the movie, I felt like I was watching an episode of ninja turtles cartoon. And the characters found each other way too easily in the real world.

Whatever, I still love the movie for what it was

In the book: joust, Black tiger, pacman, tempest. I don’t recall robotron being played. I own every arcade machine that was in the book, even Robotron. When I listened to the book the first time, I would rewind that part of the game being played and played the game while I was listening to the book. Never stepped up to Robotron.

I don’t understand what you’re saying, finding the Easter egg in adventure was the last game in the book!

He played Tempest at the last gate to get the high score, then adventure to find the Easter egg

A reference to Star craft 2 made it in!!! (Wades aunts boyfriends avatar)

Loved the gundam vs mecha Godzilla !!!

Makes sense that the quest can be 80s because the creator loved that stuff, but that Oasis itself should be full of everything and anything.

Well, here are my thoughts that i posted in the movie thread.

Short version: loved the book (Snowcrash is still better though), but the movie was just a lukewarm "ok." Not awful, but seemed geared more towards kids and teens, so I cant imagine a reason I'd watch it again.

Wow, I guess I totally spaced on that! I read it years ago, I guess I don't remember it as well as I thought. They did mention Robotron in the movie though.

I saw a robotron arcade and space invaders arcade and a rfm pin in parcevals room at the end of The movie!

Iron Giant

I was impressed with what a technical achievement the movie was. That was some serious CG. I stayed through the credits for any easter eggs (ended up not being any!) and the list of animators was 4 columns and just went on and on and on. Hundreds and hundreds of names.

I’ve read (or listened to) the book at least 4 times. To me as a child of the 1980s, the book is fantastic. I was one of those uber geeks who was into DnD and video games. The movie felt like ‘geek light’ to me, and I understand why they did redo much of the story to adapt it into a movie. I felt like much of the 1980s stuff was cut for more contemporary things.

Spielberg’s influence was felt through out the whole movie (like diato not be killed in his apartment).