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My rollerblades gather dust, the bike tyres sink and hours dissolve every day as I journey through N. It sits on a shelf with my new toy plugged in below, and me plugged in on a bean bag on the floor.
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I don’t go outside much, though, because after considerable begging and pleading my little sister and I have been allowed a small TV in our room. The tiny Scottish village I live in smells of hot concrete and cut grass. Summer on the Wumpa IslandsĪ heat wave descends that summer. And then, in the summer of 1997, as a gift for being an unbearable little swot, I get both. But what I really, really want is Crash Bandicoot. I walk home and tell my parents I really, really want a PlayStation. I feel the giddy elation of getting three Aku Aku masks and racing invincibly through a level, my heart fluttering as I obliterate everything in my path. “Ooga-booga!” booms an Aku Aku mask, and we turn to each other grinning and parrot it back.
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She talks me through the controls – X is jump, Square is spin – as she weaves through the jungle, bopping crabs and smashing Wumpa-filled crates. Sanity Beach and the room fills with the optimistic, tribalesque music that will become the soundtrack to my summer. The disc whirs and Crash Bandicoot bounces onto the screen in glorious, saturated technicolour. I’ve only heard boys talk about them, boys with grubby Sonic school bags and spiked-up hair, so subconsciously I think they must not be for girls. Kids at school chat about their Mega Drives and Sega Saturns, their Ataris and Super Nintendo consoles, and I can’t even visualise what they are and how they work.