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Playing Elite on a Beeb micro back in -- 1983? -- was a seminal gaming experience for me. It was the first time I ever experienced knowing what to do without knowing how to do it, you know, like how after playing an FPS with a mouse for a while you just know how to do it without thinking "this button moves me forward, this key makes me jump, this mouse movement changes where I'm looking", all that unconscious stuff.
I was out in space in my Cobra and some fuckers jumped me and I had no ECM so I had to fly while lasering incoming missiles while trying to get out of trouble. And I was fucking freaking out, this was some panic-attack shit for a little kid. No joystick, so doing it keyboard style. And I did it without knowing how my fingers knew what to do. I've never forgotten it.
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