With the film version of alert Player One – directed by Steven Spielberg – tipped to be one of 2018’s biggest films,it’s time to revisit Ernest Cline’s pop culture holy grail with our exclusive extract...
Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest. I was sitting in my hideout watching cartoons when the news bulletin broke in on my video feed, announcing that James Halliday had died during the night. I’d heard of Halliday, and of course. Everyone had. He was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS,a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis. The unprecedented success of the OASIS had made Halliday one of the wealthiest people in the world.
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Source: guardian.co.uk