Hungry for novelty

My first — and so far only — proper job in journalism was, many years ago, as a staff writer on a kids’ computer-games magazine.

My first — and so far only — proper job in journalism was, many years ago, as a staff writer on a kids’ computer-games magazine. We were pretty good for what we were, but if we had a flaw it was that we were obsessed, absurdly and often fruitlessly, with being the first magazine to feature some new game that absolutely no one was talking about, usually because they hadn’t finished writing it yet.