Pilgrim in the Microworld is an analysis book on the arcade game Breakout by David Sudnow.

David Sudnow was a sociologist professor at the University of California system, winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979 and piano teacher.

[1] He discovered Breakout while picking up his son at an arcade facility and began playing the Atari 2600 version of the game for months.

[2] The New York Times stated the book's style to be breathless and avoids comparisons on how the game fits into the "computer society".

[5][6] Newsweek ridiculed it stating to read the game's manual and changing the money for the book into quarters to play Breakout instead.