One mediocre
day in 1995, I found myself at the wholesale Price Club store. This
in itself is insignifigant, as I would go there quite often. But anyway,
this time something caught my eye. No, not thick black smoke from an
overcooked free sample, but a seemingly innocent CD-ROM. It wasn't even
in proper packaging. It was all alone in it's case, lying on one of
those boxes that no one bothered to put away which always seem to turn up
in those bulk stores. "Super Games Galore," it was called. "Over
1500 games." This was too good to be true, especially at the 12.99
price tag it carried. How naive I was, having only first acquired a
computer several months earlier. Take yourself back, if you will, to
1995. People thought television couldn't get any more offensive than Beavis
and Butthead and pop music couldn't get any more annoying than New Kids on
the Block. England's biggest embarrassment was still their royal family, and
MAD was still a humor magazine. How could I know any better? Just
look at it:
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