Reading 3: Hitting roadblocks

Okay we talked about How I'm doing my research, now let's talk about the ACTUAL research ~~God if you exist and want to prove it then kill me now.~~

So First off, the Tudublin library can go f--- itself, I'm sorry but when I try to use the website, it would tell me: "this IP is busy.", I tried on Monday through Thursday and I still can't get in ! How can the IP be busy at 1am in the morning ?!

So it was to Google/Google Scholars, which thank god, I had better luck. I found this: Understanding Digital Gaming By John Kirriemuir, I've had a read it and even started filling out the excel sheet. I also found this article as well: A Brief Social history of Game play by Dmitri Williams, which is has a section about the history of Games.

Too be honest with you, I've been hard time looking for articles for PC Consoles, ~~nevermind Home Consoles~~. I've been looking for over three hours and have been doing the excel sheet, it may look like I'm not working but I am ! I think once I get access to the TUdublin Library then I'll have better luck, I'm hoping that I won't have to go into TUDublin City center campus, ~~though I know I a mate that goes there so I might get them to rent out the book and buy them a pint to say thanks .~~

So Researching hasn't gone well so far, guess I'll just have to push through!

Working on the Excel, it's going slow, screenshot taken by me

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