

That’s the effect the best single-player PC games can have on a developing and impressionable brain. Many formative gaming memories have been made while plugged into this magic box of fun, so much so that many full-grown adults will see the ‘W’ key not as a letter but as a symbol representing ‘forward’, or else think that the space bar’s primary function is simply to make your character jump. Even now, many gamers’ first foray into the wonderful world of pixelated adventure was not via the Xbox, the PlayStation or any number of Nintendo’s child-friendly consoles, but instead through the humble personal computer.
