Previous news: 22 November 2009

More time = more creativity
It's going to depend on your age to how much you can relate to this, but when I was at school PC games were a rare resource. The lucky ones among use had a PC at home, normally because our Dads used it be boring work stuff (Spreadsheets, word processing etc..) - you know, the type of thing we use them for now :)

So we had the hardware, but what about the gameage? Being a kid at school our incomes were limited, so when someone actually bought a game it got pirated like the plague. Disks swapped hands and were taken home for the holy ritual of churning out copies.

Of course back then printers were pretty expensive to run (nothing much has changed I guess) so the easiest option was to churn out some quality home designed labels to crown the illegal achievement! I recently found a whole bunch of my own illegal labels from back in the day. Before sending them to the real-life recycle bin I captured their souls on digital film - not much point keeping the disks themselves any more, the data on them has most likely degraded anyway.

I guess kids at school now don't need to swap disks, they just Tweet about a Bit Torrent feed for CoD.

I prefer the illegal activities of my day :)

Mav