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My First Game: Alone in the Dark (1992)

My First Game: Alone in the Dark (1992)

by Andrea Smith | Dec 2, 2016 | Essays

I was into video games before it was cool. In 1994, I was six years old, and my favourite pastime was watching my babysitter, a teenage boy named Mark, play games on our home PC. It was a huge, white, clunky thing that ran Windows 3.1 and was mostly purchased so my dad could play Solitaire. Before I could do long division, I was better at navigating DOS than most adults, and my favourite command was C:\>run ALONE.exe. (more…)

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