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“You want me to play games!?”

On: July 24, 2019July 24, 2019 By:

Have you played any board/card games this month? Let me guess….

Games!? I stopped playing kids games when I turned (insert age here) and became an adult.
I don’t have time for “games”. I’m too busy with work/partner/kids/real life.
Yeah, I played Monopoly/Cluedo/Scrabble/Poker/Guess Who/Connect Four/Scene It/Trivial Pursuit/Snakes and Ladders/Uno/Chess/Risk

I’m guessing 99% of you are in one or more of the categories above?… Read full story

Living Dangerously

On: January 9, 2017January 9, 2017 By: Alan Bell

Elite (Sinclair ZX Spectrum 1984)

A long time ago, in a bedroom far, far away, a sixteen year old boy sat in front of a computer. The computer had 48k of RAM, a color palette consisting of 8 colors, and a single channel multi-tone beeper for sound.

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