Watch this!

I'm going to be lazy today, and simply suggest that you watch the half hour documentary linked below. Filmed in 1984, this incredible time capsule from the dawn of the videogame industry is probably about as close to a version of Spinal Tap as we gamers are likely to get.

Charting the rise and fall of Liverpudlian company Imagine software, from Champagne and Ferrari fuelled eighties excess to their eventual spectacular collapse, this is a masterpiece of schadenfreude, reaching its unintentionally hillarious zenith when a hapless saleswoman attempts to sell a game that she hasn't even seen - and doesn't even exist, except in the minds of the programmers - to a suspicious distributor.

Enjoy...