As usual, Phil connected 100% with the nails head!
Matthys.
Charles Rivard wrote:
> USA Raceway Opening Day
> by phil Vlasak
> Inspired by Scott Crain
>
> The day will be here.
> Years in the making and it will be here.
> It will be beautiful.
> It will be a crash helmet and
> a force feedback steering wheel,
> it will be screeching tires and sweaty palms,
> it will be the culmination of developer stress
> and customer demands,
> in a small room with surround speakers,
> a comfortable chair,
> smoke in the air,
> a clutched joystick, or keyboard, laughter, smiles . . .
> But will it be USA Raceway?
>
> -asked the blind man in the subway station handing out newspapers before
> going home to a turned off computer.
> -asked the lawyer with the Italian shoes
> who watched the game go through three divorces,
> -asked the teenage boy going to school
> with a frown on his face and an empty wallet.
>
> They start each day with dreams, plans, and hopes Raceway will finally see
> the light of day at its new home.
>
> When USA Raceway is finished,
> There will be many happy sleepy players in the mornings
> and plenty of tired, slumped evenings playing after work.
> It will be no more nights out but nights in,
> Hours of playing until dawn,
> but will it be USA Raceway?
>
> -asked the fifteen year old girl sleeping on a cot
> dreaming of the day she will be able to drive.
>
> On USA Raceway Opening Day,
> There will be hundreds of downloads,
> crickets singing a lullaby of creation.
> There will be nights of thunder and roaring,
> of rattled windows and revving engines.
> There will be nights of trial and error, perfecting your skills,
> Others beating your best lap times,
> that snuck in while you weren't looking.
> There will be nights of passion beating another to a photo finish,
> intensifying the joy of the game,
> and there will be nights when you've let the sun go down
> on your anger, after crashing at high speeds in the championship race,
> But, the sun rises every morning,
> and when you rise,
> you will ask the question,
> because that man by the guide dog
> with no family and earning $5.15 an hour,
> and that accessibility tech consultant on 9th avenue, and her boss,
> and her
> boyfriend,
> need to know, if it will be USA Raceway!
>
> And we, the blind gaming multitudes,
> with silent, awkward voices,
> ask the same question.
> We who surround you now
> and have maybe not taken those game preordering steps
> and maybe not found that perfect racing game at someone else's company.
> USA Games Entertainment, You are our hope.
> There will be questions on thousands of lips,
> trembling to the echoes of, "will it be USA Raceway?"
>
> -asked by the masses with black and blue hearts and unfelt days,
> demanding, "do you have the so-called guts it takes
> to finish the game?
> to show us realistic game physics?
> to show us force feedback?"
> And USA Games Entertainment will say, "I do."
>
>
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