Meeting ‘my people’ – video gamers with very long memories – took me back to an era of machine play that lacked megabytes but had far more tangible presence
I
want to tell you about the game that has made me the happiest this month. It’s a game I didn’t complete. It’s a game I didn’t even start. I just held it. And smiled. I have played the game before, but not for many years. Forty of them to be precise.
The game is Daley Thompson’s Super Test for the ZX Spectrum.
I know. It’s not even the superior first outing, Daley Thompson’s Decathlon. But I sat in my chair, opened it up, read all the info on the cassette inlay and smiled a giant smile.
