Hook was one of the few games my parents actually bought for me. Maybe the only one. For my eleventh birthday.

It was so hard, although my mum solved a few of the puzzles just by popping her head round the door...

But I got so stuck that I begged them to exchange it for another game. Luckily, our neighbour was the manager of the store where it came from, so he let me exchange it for... Zool: Ninja of the Nth Dimension. It was a boring game—a shameless advert for Chupa-Chups, but it did come with a big poster for my room.

A couple of years ago I played Hook again and used walkthroughs a little, just to get quick closure. But I now wonder if my original game was broken. I can’t remember where I got stuck, but I have always regretted exchanging it. Giving up and begging for a different game.

Now maybe I have true closure...