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Play through entire games WITHOUT a mouse...
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...or clean the mouse you did have by popping out the little ball inside.
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Or worse, use a nightmarish gamepad like this one:
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Depend on monthly magazines for the latest news, trends, and release dates.
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Beat "non-talkie" versions of games because you bought the floppy disks instead of the CD-ROM...
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...or maybe you didn't have the latest one of these:
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Not to mention the add-in graphics cards you had to buy every year.
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Complete a single-player campaign with your friend watching over your shoulder — and call it "co-op."
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Install a single game consisting of multiple discs — sometimes as many as seven. S-E-V-E-N.
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Go to a big-box store to buy bigger-box games...
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...which sometimes came with BOOKS for manuals.
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Trip over countless cables at LAN parties — after taking hours to set up every clunky desktop monitor.
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Set up battlestations on your family's antique wooden furniture.
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And finally, own a computer with 4MB of RAM and a 25MHz processor.
PCs have come a long way since the point-and-click days. See what it takes to become a pro gamer here.
