As I look back on the nineties, it was an era of truly unique and original ideas regarding computer games, not because anyone came up with something that no one else had ever thought of, but because we had a truly revolutionary technology at our disposal that allowed us to branch out into a truly new area of development. It's easy to come up with something new when you're in completely unexplored territory. Once you've spent a bit of time there, however, good old repetition rears its ugly head again and you're back to doing the same things over and over again. It's simply a curse of time.
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