Split-keyboard Gaming

Puberty is a terrible thing. Though the results may be worth it, puberty takes away a lot of the things you cherished about your childhood. It took away the ability for me to play video games with people.

Consoles were rare, and you could either have a working telephone or use the internet. LAN gaming was rare as well since few houses had multiple computers. In this time of constraint, many games allowed two players to game on the same PC, splitting the keyboard's control between the two. 

It was great stuff. I have many excellent, if hazy, memories of losing at Golden Axe(?), various Mortal Kombats and, of course, Mustapha. Which wasn't its real name, as we would have known if we bothered to read the title screen. But in those days reading and gaming were considered mutually-exclusive, unless they were the instructions to a fatality combo.

This world was lost to me when my hands grew too big to dance across one tiny corner of a keyboard. 

– Zoheb Mashiur, sub-editor, SHOUT