Climbing into bed and hiding under the covers so my mum and dad wouldn’t see the glow of the screen, I played Pokémon on my Game Boy into the night.
Aged nine, I’d saved all my pocket and birthday money to buy my very own second-hand console.
I played video games so much and got so good at them, I soon started to crush my big brother at Mario Kart on our Nintendo 64.
‘I beat you again!’ I grinned.
When I wasn’t
