
And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.' And to quote the sage wisdom of Mary Schmich, 'You, too, will get old. Chewbacca still didn't get his medal.Īs individuals, we romanticise the past.


I thought about people that I used to know and I wondered if the corner shop at the bottom of the street was still there.īack in 2013, the X-Wing fighters took off. I could picture the posters on the walls, the colour of the carpet, see the signed West Bromwich Albion football sitting on the shelf. My brain sank its teeth into the image and suddenly I'm sixteen again sitting in front of a small television (one with a built-in VCR), playing Rogue Squadron in the bedroom I grew up in. The scene reminded me of the beginning of each mission on Rogue Squadron the option to choose a ship from a virtual hanger bay. A panning shot over the base show four, maybe five, ships about to fly off into combat the rebels were ridiculously outmatched. The rebel base was gearing up for an attack on the Death Star and extras were running around, pumping fuel into the fleet before it embarked on the suicide mission.
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I caught the last few minutes of Star Wars: A New Hope on the TV yesterday (the first film in the original series). It was based on the Star Wars series you were Luke Skywalker, whizzing around the galaxy in an X-Wing and shouting, 'Lock S-Foils in attack position' at the television. It was 1998 and one of my first games for the system was a title called Rogue Squadron. As a teenager, my first computer console was a Nintendo 64.
