23rd October 2003, 10:00 AM
The average gamer is probably not even aware that "hardcore gaming" exists, much less would they then be able to pass off any game as "for the hardcore".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)