This two-dimensional sports game simulated table tennis and was controlled by paddles, which afforded vertical movement as you competed against either a CPU opponent or another human player.

By then it had made its transition from the arcades to home console, courtesy of our good friends at Atari and was proving something of a winner on this format. One of the earliest arcade video games, Pong was introduced while I was still one of six million sperms swimming around in my father’s nut sack and I was six-years-old before it got its hooks into me. It’s hard to know exactly where my interest initially piqued although all signs seem to point to Pong. For over a decade I ran an independent video game retailer and, for the entirety of that period, film had to be content with taking a back seat. However, playing games is an altogether different proposition and, while it is over three years since I hung up my joy pad for the last time, I have lost count of the amount of hours I have invested to being a gamer. However, as a form of escapism, it is a decidedly poor second and cannot boast of engaging as many senses. I like music a great deal and have wildly varied tastes so there is plenty of fun to be had with that too. Should I be looking to be entertained, then placing myself in the hands of whatever film I have selected for 90+ minutes is a sure-fire way to pass the time and, dependent on my selection, a dash of learning isn’t entirely unthinkable either. Watching movies has been my number one pastime for as far back as I can remember.

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