I believe my mag of choice at the time was PC Powerplay and I actually had the demo for Deus Ex for quite some time before I played it. Thanks to internet powered by 56k dial up modems, getting a hold of demos was best achieved by buying magazines that came with demo disks. But that is precisely what happened in the year 2000 when Ion Storm released the demo for the Unreal powered Deus Ex. So it is doubly strange for a demo, not the full game, to do exactly that. I enjoy the heck out of gaming but it is very uncommon for a game to leave me with a lasting impression, for a game to dominate my thoughts for weeks to come.

Usually games come and go, they are a fun distraction from more important things. Rarely a game makes a huge impact on my life. So in the immortal words of Deckard Cain, stay a while and listen as our writers take you back to a favourite moment in their gaming past. It is at moments like these that the nostalgia strings are pulled and the joys of games gone by flood our conscious thought. It may be a HD re-release, a new movie or even a sequel to a beloved classic. Every now and then an event occurs that brings up fond memories of past gaming lives.

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