The Huz Experience

I used to have a serious problem: I couldn’t stop buying games I didn’t have time to play.

Actually, who am I kidding? The problem hasn’t gone away, it’s just loosened its grip slightly. There are still games on my shelf I’ve barely unwrapped.

Prince of Persia. Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon. Deus Ex. Eternal Darkness.

Just last week I spotted an irresistable deal on play.com: three adventure games for £5! Granted, I’d never heard of them, and even the reviews on Just Adventure were prepared to admit they were sub-par – meaning they were each a pathetic waste of space, and playing them would compare unfavourably with repeatedly impaling your head on a fork – but still, that’s three games for £5. How could I resist that?

And of course they’ve joined the ever-expanding ranks of games I’ve never touched. I did manage to make inroads into the pile a few years ago, by forbidding myself from buying any new games until I’d given each of the existing ones a fair chance. Obviously, with my self-dislipline, that lasted about five minutes – but it gave me the chance to play some decent games, seemingly for free.

Ah, so that’s why governments stockpile some of their natural resources.