ANTIC Interview 327 - Rawson Stovall, The Vid Kid newspaper column
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Rawson Stovall, The Vid Kid newspaper column
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As you no doubt gleaned from the clips of his appearances on CBS Morning News and The Tonight Show, Rawson Stovall was only a child when he started writing a syndicated newspaper column in which he reviewed computer games and home video games. The column, called Vid Kid, appeared in 20 newspapers around the United States. He was in fact the first nationally syndicated reviewer of video games in the country.
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He is author of The Vid Kid\'s Book of Home Video Games \\u2014 a compilation of his reviews \\u2014 which was published in 1984, when Rawson was 12 years old.\\xa0
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This interview took place on January 23, 2018.
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