back in the 80s...
A guy in school called M*** (name obscured to protect the guilty) was the proud owner of a ZX Spectrum and as was the case in those days, people would cram a C120 full of about 100 games and run off copies on tape-to-tape machines (Amstrad's single best contribution to popular culture). Sure, lots of people had Speccies, but he had to have all the games. ALL the games. Oh yes. You had it, he'd already finished it. It wasn't out yet, he had it on loan from a computer magazine like ZZAP! who were using him as a secret game tester. I was out of this arms race as I had a BBC (educational value computer etc) but the others in our group soon got a bit fed up with this. Eventually they laid a trap for him...

Friend 1: Hey, M***, have you seen that new game 'Deadly Dwarves?'

M*** : Oh yeah, finished it already , last night, stayed up till 2...

Friend 2: (turning up the heat) Have you seen what's coming out next week? 'Sperm Jet 3D'

M*** : Ah that's my favourite game this year, really realistic graphics

Friend 3: (even more sarcastic) I've just seen plans for the new graphical adventure game, 'Randy Bastards'

M*** : I helped design three of the levels you know.

Otherwise a perfectly nice guy, although when I saw him after the first year of university he was sporting a beard like The Kings Of Leon (and this was back in 1992...)
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