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Sometimes we have to work hard to remember…

Remember the thrill of seeing Pac Man for the first time? Not the second-hand memory (the one that includes all those sub-par Pac Man clones and sequels we’ve spent good money on over the years) but the original memory. Remember how there was a time when Pac Man didn’t exist, when videogames involved shooting things, and then there was that maddening tune and that featureless face invaded our lives and things were never the same again?

Remember the first time you turned on your Sinclair Spectrum, or Commodore 64, or Atari ST, or NES, or Megadrive? Remember that realisation that the future was here, in your front room – plugged into your TV – and there was half an hour before bedtime when we could be heroes…

Remember the first time you sat up all night playing videogames? Remember how you dragged yourself to school or work in the morning and then came home and did it again?

All you have to do is to read, and to play, and to feel. That feeling is still there. If you want it…

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Take a long refreshing draught of Original Videogaming Spirit and tell us that you don’t remember:

Aeroflott tells us how it was…

...while Shewrog asks 'where is the love?'

Sod remembering, Junosix prefers resurrection.

Koworld’s memory is so good he remembers when Star Wars was real.

And Kun-Tor lets us in on his eBay habit.

This really is 'The Memory Man'. See him, he's remembering you. FOREVER!

Next Week… Aeroflott follows up (tee hee) and we'll tell you just why Grim Fandango makes Koworld cry.

RODENT, July 23rd 2004

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