An article on competitive playing of old arcade games. PacMan, Donkey Kong and so on.
http://laweekly.blogs.com/joshuah_bearman/files/harpers_billy_mitchell.pdf
This piece has got it all, vicious backstabbing, technical vs intuitive approaches, meditative states, the world behing the kill-screens, strange levels that show up under certain circumstances, rampant nationalism and banana drop rates!