I shared this because the evolution of your meeting with video games was hilarious.
and only part of the evolution is here. I had to first realize the bit about the lever, and then, thanks to white got my tiny figure's ass back into the phonebooth. 76 minutes, then 65, and the last time was about 36 minutes. Almost three hours of my life, gone, never to return! I could probably get it down to 10 minutes: If I did, the upside would be that I can do this as fast as white and cgod who may or may not be young men. The down side: HOURS AND HOURS of my life - gone. Luckily I'm not too prone to addictive behaviours. My secret shame: I spend 10-15 minutes a day on the print newspaper's suduku except when I'm travelling and don't get a print newspaper. Strangely, when I'm without suduku, I don't miss it and my life is better for it. Note to self: Give up suduku. EDIT: 16' 27" I can quit -- I hope Google takes it down now.
I enjoy suduku if it's not very hard. They say it's good for our brains or something. Using the mouse and not the arrow keys made a huge difference in the doctor game for me. The game reminded me more of the 80's Atari games that were surprisingly harsh than it reminded me of modern video games. I might have an advantage in that I grew up in the 80's playing video games.