Dave Watching Stuff

This is what gaming looks like to somebody who has no idea what gaming is.

As a kid, I spent entire summers with spare hours and disposable days of time with which to plunge my mind into my Super Nintendo or N64. But all this freedom would be split between a small handful of games that had taken me years to acquire; whether through sweating over a lawnmower to slowly earn meagre amounts of cash or relying on annual birthday or Christmas presents. Getting a new game was as rare and sacred an event as the second coming of Christ. Like most of us probably did, I played the same few games so many times that every star in Mario 64, every enemy position in Goldeneye and every one of Ryu’s moves was forever etched into the back of my corneas. Continue reading →