It’s alive!
Doctor Frankstein would be so proud, but let’s start this story from the top. In the beginning, there was darkness. Then, a whole lot happened (insert your favourite religious or scientific belief about how Life, the Universe and Everything eventually happened to exist, here) and by the end of the year 2007 A.D., I found myself half-wanting, half-coerced to buy a new PC. The fact that my most recent system, named ‘Citadel Station’ after the space station on which pretty much all of the System Shock 1 game’s story was set, was over five years old (check the date on these gallery pictures), and that it broke down completely, might have influenced my decision making process a little. The end result is that one Sunday afternoon I sat down and ‘clicked together’ a new machine. (more…)