Yesterday I got one of those (non-)shiny new PS3 Slim things. This is a very special occasion for me; it is the first video game console I’ve ever owned.

I’ve played games on consoles before, of course, but only because my friends always had them. Like any child of the 90s who had a life, I grew up on games, but not “video games.” Video games were on consoles (or, as they were called before I discovered proper English, “systems”). I played computer games. And I was a snob about that.

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