Every one of the ten Rodent columnists below started life as a public player posting in the WotR forums. Post your original spirit of videogaming stories there and you too could make it to best of the board or even Rodent status...

PARENTS BOUGHT: Amstrad CPC 464
PLAYGROUND LUST: Commodore C64
WOULD DEFEND TO THE HILT: Dreamcast
WRITES: Mournfully of a childhood lost

PARENTS BOUGHT: Food for the table
PLAYGROUND LUST: Commodore C64
WOULD DEFEND TO THE HILT: MAME
WRITES: Street gaming poetry

PARENTS BOUGHT: A good education
PLAYGROUND LUST: Space Invaders Cab
WOULD DEFEND TO THE HILT: SNK
WRITES: Cheerful arcade memories

PARENTS BOUGHT: Sega GameGear
PLAYGROUND LUST: 40Mhz 386 PC
WOULD DEFEND TO THE HILT: Shinobi
WRITES: Of a geek who made cool

PARENTS BOUGHT: Kangaroo burgers
PLAYGROUND LUST: Commodore C64
WOULD DEFEND TO THE HILT: Copied Elite
WRITES: So real you think you were there

PARENTS BOUGHT: Sinclair Spectrum 48k
PLAYGROUND LUST: Karen Swift
WOULD DEFEND TO THE HILT: Life in the Zone
WRITES: Beautifully of arcades and awakening

PARENTS BOUGHT: Dragon 32
PLAYGROUND LUST: Atari 800/Alison Welpton
WOULD DEFEND TO THE HILT: Miner Willy
WRITES: Great stories of the odd-one out

PARENTS BOUGHT: Spectrum then ST
PLAYGROUND LUST: Daisy Wheel Printers
WOULD DEFEND TO THE HILT: Proper keyboards
WRITES: Poignantly on growing up with computers

PARENTS BOUGHT: BBC Model B
PLAYGROUND LUST: Commodore C64
WOULD DEFEND TO THE HILT: Pinball
WRITES: Joysticks for goalposts

PARENTS BOUGHT: Amiga A1200
PLAYGROUND LUST: CD32
WOULD DEFEND TO THE HILT: Dreamcast
WRITES: Sweet stories of the 32bit generation