JOHN YIANNI
I must confess to spending far too much of my free time – and a vast amount of my not-so-free time – playing a video game called Elite on a Commodore 64 computer, way back in the day when 64 KB was considered a reasonable amount of memory – ha! The sandbox experience of Elite really appealed to me. In Elite you were encouraged to work your way up the ranks through any means you saw fit – be it piracy, trade, missions or even bounty hunting.