Computer Games

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Computer Games

Think of the millions of dollars, pounds and sane minds that have been sacrificed in research and development in order to bring you the miracle of the microcomputer. Has it been justified? Is mankind any closer to understanding The Cosmos and its Great Design?

Hardly! But he’s well-equipped to shoot Hell out of anything the Universe cares to chuck at him – Galactic Thingies, F-Plan Missiles, Hi-speed Tax Inspectors, Nuclear-powered Shopping Trolleys and so on. Computer Games are IN. Old-fashioned entertainments like TV and sex are having to take second place. However, like anything that is enjoyable and entertaining, you much of it makes your eyes go funny, (or in this case reduces the eyeballs to blobs of bloodshot gelatine).