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muppet42

Picture it if you will...I was 11 and all I'd ever known in gaming was the Sinclair Spectrum. My father, a programmer, wanted me to see the more intellectual side of gaming. Where you waited sometimes over 15 minutes for a game to load from a cassette tape, which could perhaps be destroyed...

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