The essence of what we called play, as I recall, was not danger but the fact that it came unprescribed.
Some three decades later I recalled the play to Mays, describing it as I remembered it.
Mind you, and this could be the memory playing tricks, but I recall watching the Masters back in the mid to late 80s, and every other minute of coverage saw some poor bugger scampering haplessly back down the fairway, chasing after a recalcitrant ball, having gingerly attempted to convert a two-footer for par only for events to spiral wildly out of control.
"As soon as I heard John Bonham play," Jones recalled, "I knew this was going to be great .
I can't be certain, but given it was 1997, and the only games I recall playing before then were Rayman, Tekken, and Destruction Derby, GoldenEye may very well have been the first video game in which I shot somebody.
I can't be certain, but given it was 1997, and the only games I recall playing before then were Rayman, Tekken and Destruction Derby, GoldenEye may very well have been the first video game in which I shot somebody.
I haven't played Unreal Tournament since 2001, but I recall having a bloody good time playing it in the dorms.
As I recall, the play got caught up by the politics of it: it really couldn't quite be a play.Why was that?Well, people were invested in the GI, and they wanted certain things.
Don't get me wrong, imaginative play is great - and I recall doing a lot of pretending with my own Barbie dolls.
Once, later, I said to him, "I've just been talking to someone who says libraries are irrelevant in the new digital age", and he replied, "Did you punch him?" I recall Janet Frame, played by the exquisite Kerry Fox, saying in Jane Campion's movie An Angel At My Table that all she wanted, living in New Zealand, was to be published by Faber & Faber.
