He held his breath and launched the game.
Every issue of PC Gamer had screamed its praises. “A masterpiece,” they said. “A living, breathing 80s crime epic.” The problem was the $49.99 price tag, a sum as mythical as a unicorn to a kid whose only income came from returning soda bottles. The other problem was the "M" for Mature rating. No store in town would sell it to him. Grand Theft Auto- Vice City PC Game crack
The download took four days. Four days of his older sister screaming at him to get off the phone line. Four days of the progress bar creeping from 1% to 99% like a dying man crawling across a desert. On the fifth morning, he woke to find a file on his desktop: GTa_ViceCity_FULL_CRACKED.exe . He held his breath and launched the game
He stared. His hand went to the power button, but the mouse was moving on its own. It glided across the screen, opened his "My Documents" folder, and highlighted a file labeled School_Essay_History_Final.doc . “A living, breathing 80s crime epic
He slammed the power strip with his foot.