Magnavox Trigger Happy Manuel D’Utilisation

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Trigger Happy 
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RESISTANCE IS FUTILE 
 
 
 
Our virtual history 
In the beginning, the planet was dead. 
Suddenly, millions of years ago, arcane 
spontaneous chemical reactions in the primeval ooze 
resulted, by a freak cosmic chance, in the first 
appearance of what we now call “the code of life.” 
Formed in knotty binary strings, each node 
representing information by its state of “on” or “off” 
and its place in the series, the code grew adept at 
replicating in ever more complex structures. 
Eventually, the organizations of code became so dense 
that an overarching property emerged that could not be 
explained by reference to any of the constituent parts. 
This was “life” itself. 
The first videogame formed in the sludge. It was a 
simple organism, but a father to us all. Soon enough