... a black shroud off a table and there was the machine, a shiny chrome box in the shape of the letter X, with a big green jewel in its center. "The modest tag line here is the future of console gaming," he said. Offstage, Jonathan "Seamus" Blackley was worried sick. "I was under so much stress ... A year earlier he'd been at the same trade show--but under much different circumstances. Back then, he met with Johnny Wilson, the editor of Computer Gaming World magazine. Mr. Blackley's highly anticipated game, Trespasser: The Lost World, had just met with terrible reviews and lackluster sales...

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• Grade Level: High School