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TOUCHDOWNS, GOALS, 3 POINTS AND FIRST PLACE – A HALF-REMEMBERED HISTORY OF SPORTS GAMES

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ONLY the best of the best, the hardest working, most dedicated and most talented get to operate in the upper echelons of elite sport, while the rest of us are reduced to being mere rapt spectators. Well, rapt spectators who often point out how easy certain sporting actions should be and how we (out of shape, on a sofa, stuffing just one more bag of crisps in our face) could certainly do better. But there is an easy way to get involved, to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we would be the best athlete to ever step on a pitch/rink/court/race course etc, and that way is via the wonderful medium of videogames.

Plus, we can keep our butts firmly parked on the precious sofa. What bliss.

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