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If you got to live inside a video game world, which one would you choose?

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I am a Civilization fanatic. I got into it early and played eagerly until the current release, Civilization VII. When it was first released, VII was as eagerly embraced by me as all the other releases of the franchise. Then, to my sorrow, the games bogged down with strange strategies and mechanisms borrowed from other game platforms. To play a game, you now were obligated to switch civilizations midway through your game. What was the sense in having developed Rome when all of a sudden you had to become China, or vice versa?

I’ve been building civilizations since it was a board game produced by Avalon Hill. I’d set up my cat as an opposition player. I did this when I discovered his love for scattering pieces from the game. It was hard to win against him; he cheated every time I went to get some coffee or go to the bathroom!

When the computer version came out, I figured no more cheating cats. That did not work out; they figured out that the monitor on the computer did interesting things when you walked across the keyboard. And it was like the cats had an informant in the game. The brats looked so innocent while gliding to victory as Assyria.

Live inside a video game? No thanks. With my luck, the cats would be running it. Been there, done that.