It's always so nice to be pleasantly surprised by playing one of these undisputed classiques for the first time, and not have to grapple with the caveat of "you had to be there at the time, aged 9". Quake instantly became my favourite first person shooter from a pure kinetic standpoint, it just feels so good to skate around at mach speed - bouncing grenades around corners and rockets at the feet of goonies.

Amazed by how little I learned about this game through like, osmosis. Every enemy and sleight of hand trick of the levels was completely fresh new n excitin. Had to Google how to beat the final boss after beating my head against the wall for like ten minutes and it's a psychotic method I respect a lot.

Too stupid to get the soundtrack working, so all I had was pure ambient noise & sound effects. The spirit of Trent still manages to resonate within these rusty iron corridors, amazing sound effects that are as toothy and fulfilling as crunching in2 a protein bar.