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I mean, I'm not Rain Man, but through drills and repetition I gradually began to prevail, and soon I heard that glorious cry of 'Yippe Ki-Yay' - level cleared. I memorised the enemy's choreography and my own, so that with each waltzing swoosh of the camera I was able to have my sights trained on spaces where I knew enemies would appear. Quite how I deciphered those ropey graphics on such a tiny screen, and in such bright light, I don't know, but slowly, fighting the temptation to smash that gun, I made progress.

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And I drilled: I rehearsed that airport full of terrorists over and over, baking in exaggerated heat of a conservatory in summer, holding our family's washing machine hostage in the process. So I got the ironing board out and set the console up about a foot or two away from the ledge where the TV was, and stood behind that, my shooting range. I knew that to beat it I would have to learn it - I would need to memorise the patterns. I tried cheating I tried stuffing the nose of the light gun right up against my tiny CRT TV, but it didn't help. You aimed at baddies while trying to avoid innocents, and died if you mismanaged ammo or simply didn't kill fast enough. It was an on-rails shooter a bit like Time Crisis if you need a reference. As soon as I clack-clack-clacked that Logic Predator (probably) light gun in Die Hard 2: Die Harder, I was rapt, a teenager possessed.

Thanks Ben! It came to our house in a tatty old Sainsbury's carrier like a toy long forgotten, and it came with a bag of other games I can't remember because I didn't really care. I didn't own a PlayStation 1 but borrowed one from my brother's mate Ben. And it's why one summer many moons ago I fell in love with the Die Hard Trilogy on PlayStation 1. It's why I'm invincible at Quake 3 map DM17, because it's the only map I ever play, over and over again, and it's why I love Guitar Hero, all those finger patterns put to music. Perhaps it's why I like MMOs and their finger-dance of hotkey pressing. That desire to hone a process over and over bled into other things, like games. The Logic Predator, my old instrument, swoon. I would drill and drill and want to smash the violin to pieces, but mostly I would prevail, and the eventual performance felt good. I would play passages of music over and over, memorising sets of finger patterns until they added up to a whole piece. But learning violin instilled in me a kind of fervour for rigorous repetition.

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Gave that up when I got a job at B&Q and bought myself a PC and Dark Age of Camelot, whoops. I'm a trained violinist, not that I've scraped the old strings properly for well over a decade now.

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