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Is your childhood home where most of your favourite gaming memories are found? What a strange feeling it is when it's no longer yours
When your childhood home is sold, the places you used to play games are gone but the memories live on.
Watch on YouTube My mind is less red-tinged when I think about the C64, in reality more of a sideways step from the Amstrad than a massive upgrade, but I had it on a colour TV which made a huge difference. Later on we'd tag team Gran Turismo, my uncle grinding away at races during the day, me and my brother taking over after school so we could amass as many credits as possible. on the family PC set up in the hallway by the front door, forever being told to move as me, my brother, and friends blocked the stairs for hours every day; the Xbox 360 failing to arrive on launch day so driving with my mum to the parcel depot to collect it instead, and her car getting pranged at a junction on the way home; playing Shadow of the Colossus in the small bedroom on my own, thinking how everyone downstairs was oblivious to just how incredible this game was.
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