![]() ![]() ![]() That over-the-shoulder glimpse of that flat green backdrop brought so much of that back. The 486 SX at home, with Windows 3.1 and its built-in games of Solitaire and Minesweeper, were my refuge. Sad partly because my first experiences with Solitaire coincided with my school life turning sour, the loneliness and out-of-placedness of a newly-teenage, introverted nerd in a sports-centric, all-boys secondary school. Scornful because, well, I'm a horrid little oik who thinks he knows a lot about games, and thinks that somehow entitles him to judge what others choose to play. To unexpectedly see it again, on the screen of a tablet belonging to a woman perhaps two or three years older than me, made me feel first scornful, then sad, then overwhelmingly envious. The first game we ever played on the first computers we ever used. For those of us of a certain age, it was our gateway drug to PC gaming. It's as recognisable to me as any member of my family: Solitaire. A flat green backdrop, overlaid with stacks of white rectangles. On a bus recently, amidst the sea of glum, blue-lit faces of dispossessed commuters and shoppers searching for hope in their black mirrors, I glimpsed a familiar sight. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.
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