(Inspired by Farenheit 451)
In the year 2012, the internet was switched off. ARPANET and JANET were kept on but only for those companies that could pay the extravagant fee. The reason? Games.
In 2011, the United Nations declared it had significant proof that gaming produced severe mental and physical degradation and was to be declared illegal. With help from Michael Atkinson, all games were immediately retroactively declared 18. This failed to stop people, so the Game-Men were formed.
Trained by the Army, their job was to cut all internet access, seize all gaming stock and delete all programs that contained a gaming element with extreme prejudice. They were armed with EMP-throwers and they burned all hard copies, which melted at 1111 degrees Farenheit / 600 Celsius.
Valve, Bungie and Acti-Blizzard were the first to be arrested and charged with multiple accounts of supplying dangeous materials. People across the world tried to protest, but after the first few 'accidental' deaths due to being hit by the EMP-throwers, people started to go along with it.(EMP=Electromagnetic pulses that destroy all data, or brainwaves)
Gamers, being the resourceful people they are, found many ways to hide their favoured games from the Game-Men, but many of those Game-Men were ex-gamers and even the most well hidden games were found and destroyed; along with a few resisting trouble makers.
The question: You have 5 minutes remaining before the Game-Men use their EMP-Throwers on your house. You have chance to save ONE DVD worth of gaming, by slipping it into a lead-lined DVD case that you can slide into your mattress.
Remember: There is NO internet and it may be 5,10,15 years before you next get to play it. The Game-Men KNOW how many games you have and are smart enough to think around any plan you can come up with.
What's on your DVD? And will you go peacefully?
In the year 2012, the internet was switched off. ARPANET and JANET were kept on but only for those companies that could pay the extravagant fee. The reason? Games.
In 2011, the United Nations declared it had significant proof that gaming produced severe mental and physical degradation and was to be declared illegal. With help from Michael Atkinson, all games were immediately retroactively declared 18. This failed to stop people, so the Game-Men were formed.
Trained by the Army, their job was to cut all internet access, seize all gaming stock and delete all programs that contained a gaming element with extreme prejudice. They were armed with EMP-throwers and they burned all hard copies, which melted at 1111 degrees Farenheit / 600 Celsius.
Valve, Bungie and Acti-Blizzard were the first to be arrested and charged with multiple accounts of supplying dangeous materials. People across the world tried to protest, but after the first few 'accidental' deaths due to being hit by the EMP-throwers, people started to go along with it.(EMP=Electromagnetic pulses that destroy all data, or brainwaves)
Gamers, being the resourceful people they are, found many ways to hide their favoured games from the Game-Men, but many of those Game-Men were ex-gamers and even the most well hidden games were found and destroyed; along with a few resisting trouble makers.
The question: You have 5 minutes remaining before the Game-Men use their EMP-Throwers on your house. You have chance to save ONE DVD worth of gaming, by slipping it into a lead-lined DVD case that you can slide into your mattress.
Remember: There is NO internet and it may be 5,10,15 years before you next get to play it. The Game-Men KNOW how many games you have and are smart enough to think around any plan you can come up with.
What's on your DVD? And will you go peacefully?
