To all the kids who are reading this wondering what’s going on. In about 10 years time you’ll see exactly what we’re on about. Enjoy it all while it’s still remarkably fresh and interesting to you, as when time goes on things start to change a bit, not for the bad per se, but you start to think about it all just a bit more.

If anyone’s interested, I’m just leaving Oxford and heading to Reading station on my way to Southampton to meet up with some friends who I game online with a lot of the time. I know this may not seem like it has anything to do with what’s been typed above, but in some strange way it does. Online console gaming has been the one major thing that’s been a vast improvement over days of old, it has to be said. People now have a much easier way to get together in a social circle without actually being there and it’s very advantageous to many people, especially those who are unable to do very much stuck in their little rural premises with nothing more than old comedy re-runs and war stories to keep them occupied.

As a much loved side effect (not to mention a really good link to the paragraph above and why I typed it) the console online services have helped to rejuvenate older titles. Track & Field, Sensible World of Soccer and so on now have added features, with the biggest being multi-player net gaming and to me; this shows just how much fun we had back then. Sure, we’ll all have a chuckle and a chat whilst defusing a bomb on Call of Duty 4, but I defy anyone to not have just as much fun when bashing buttons like a drummer who’s had too much coffee breaking the 100m record, or scoring the winning goal on the previously mentioned retro titles.

Well, I’m nearing the end of my journey in more ways than one. For anyone giving a monkey’s…, I am about 20 minutes from my stop (nothing like keeping the audience involved, right?). It’s also time to start winding things up for this little piece of old school prose too. I hope in such a day an age of modern technology and gadgets that evolve faster than a baby can walk, we don’t forget what got us here and that includes gaming. There’s too much history for us to simply throw away like a disposable razor and it’s something we must keep alive for future generations to see not only how far we’ve come, but perhaps take in a piece of the more matured industry we have today.

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