Today in Phlip History
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September 3, 1998… I was 19, it was a Monday. I had to work that morning and needed to be there to open the store, so I was in the mall at 9:30am. When one of my guys got in with me, I snuck away to whatever FYE was 20 years ago to make a quick video game purchase. If I had known that the game I was about to buy would change the direction of the next year(S) of my life, I would have--… fuck that, I’d have bought THREE! I worked 9:30-6 that day and IMMEDIATELY rushed home to my Playstation (the boring-looking-ass Playstation 1!), locked away in my bedroom and proceeded to not be heard from other than to work, eat, bathe or shit for weeks. If at any point I can remember a favorite game becoming my favorite that quickly, this was the time. The story was fun going through. It was engrossing to have a story with layers and twists and shit, mixed in with the “sneaking around and cutting dumbass guards’ throats” aspect of it. The Easter eggs found in subsequent