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I hate you. There, I finally said it, whoo that’s a lot off my chest! So let me explain. I recently took stock of all my magazines and realised I could have saved up all this money and would now own a Neo Geo with some decent games, but no, I decided to just read about the awesome games instead. What a plonker! I realised that with all the spare time I spent reading your magazines I could have been playing on one of my many

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