What was the first album you owned? A fairly inane question perhaps, but it’s one of those stock facts that all civilised human beings are expected to carry around, ready to whip out when awkward silence calls (for the record, my Mum GAVE me New Kids on the Block, Hangin’ Tough. It’s not like I liked it. Or listened to it. Much).
Being asked to recall your first videogame, however, is something that happens pretty rarely. This is probably due to the preference for discussion of music over gaming in polite company, but its actually a much more interesting question.
Games, for a variety of reasons, mean much more to most (male) children than music does – go to any playground today and I’ll wager you’ll hear 10 times as much talk about the new Call of Duty than the new Arctic Monkeys album (don’t actually go to a playground, you might get in trouble).
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