❝He had bought the Amiga 1000 with his Timex redundancy money, as any bio will tell you. All the popular accounts mention the money of course, but none of them mention the stereo system which almost took up the entire length of a wall, the king-size waterbed, the poodle and the budgie which barked instead of chirped.❞

❝Sitting in the corner of my Dundee bedsit, one afternoon in 1996, I was typing away at an article. Scotland was a UFO hotbed in 1996. A "burger-shaped" object had descended on Orchar Park in February, scattering some frightened kids. That was just down the road from me. An October crash of *something* in the Hebrides prompted an air-sea rescue. UFOs were much on my mind. Then I happened to look out the window.❞

❝Being interactive, adaptive and increasing in sophistication, why aren’t games already the most adept at spinning these feelings we all have? Games have the existing tools of visuals, audio, characters and story to use. Everything, indeed, that a movie can do. Everything that a novel can do. In a game, it is all wrapped up in gameplay. Taken to the extreme, a movie is simply a game with the interaction set to zero.❞