The Golden Age of PC gaming... what a special time to be alive. Well, maybe not special. Maybe just strange.
Especially if you're a borderline unemployable geek who wears weird boots and can only get work writing the back page "funny" column for an obscure PC gaming magazine..
In a world before consoles took over, before smartphones and Facebook, we played games on PC. These are our memories. Some of those memories are on fire. SEE a kitten eat the author's left eyelid! HEAR his crazy ex-third flatmate complain about dedicated servers! FEEL a MadCat stomp a Toyota Prius |
into industrial waste and then get its knee shot out by a rocket launcher! TASTE exploded Amazonian Grey Parrot! SMELL an ex-unofficial PlayStation magazine editor!
With awesome googly-eyed illustrations by awesome googly-eyed illustrator Jimmy Stockton! A collection of short-to-medium pieces that reflect the sometimes bizarre, often offensive and occasionally insightful world of PC games journalism, in that very special time: 2001 - 2011. |