When I was about 9 years old, we used to have a sort of make-shift video game arcade in my town, where you could pay about £4.50 and try out playstation games for an hour and Abe's Oddysee was one of those games. It was the first playstation game I ever laid eyes on and it instantly terrified and excited me all at once.

During infancy, I used to own a Sinclair Spectrum, where games ran on cassettes, it took 15 minutes of mad scramblng noises to load a game and I had to use...