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I tried to get into the mysterious world of Hacker, in which you had to break into a mainframe computer: it came without instructions and opened with a stark ‘Logon Please’, crashing if you failed to guess the password before letting you in via another route.

I was intrigued by, but too young to understand space trading epic Elite or the surreal 3D world of The Sentinel, but engaged with some interesting ideas elsewhere. The ones I preferred, besides shoot-’em-ups, football and platform games, were those with an unusual concept. (This would not have been wasteful.) I spent most of mine, as a deeply depressed boy in a small Surrey town, in my bedroom, watching football, writing lyrics for terrible punk bands, furtively cross-dressing whilst suppressing my wish that I’d been born female, and playing computer games, mainly on my Commodore 64. Not drinking, smoking, doing drugs and having sex. This edition includes an updated interface and fixes bugs in the original version of the game, but the content of the game hasn't changed from the original 1986 version of the game.I knew at the time that I was wasting my teens. The current edition of the Alter Ego game is a production of Choose Multiple LLC. ( Alter Ego was originally published in 1986 for the Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Apple II, and Macintosh. Will you grow up to be confident and happy? Will you fight with bullies, or befriend them? Will you find a date to the senior prom? Will you marry and have kids, or start your own business and become a millionaire? The choice is yours.

Alter Ego starts at birth and ends at death, including two substantially different versions, depending on whether you choose to be male or female. It's in the style of pick-a-path gamebooks, but with over a thousand multiple-choice questions, it's much longer and deeper than traditional gamebooks. In this text-based interactive fiction, you choose what happens next. What if you could live your life over again?