It was the Future

When all the games consoles started to appear in the late 70 and early 80s, I got into it and thought to myself "This is the future" Sadly I got rid of them all, and now spend my days regretting it. We also seem to spend all our time now not talking to each other and just staring at little screens pretending we have hundreds of friends, so I suppose it was the future. 

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