Would you pay a quarter to leave a comment on PCGamer.com? Before you scream "no" at me in the comments for the bargain price of free, consider that the PC Gamer magazine readers of yesteryear were Built Different.
Once upon a time, folks were so eager to mail their letters into the magazine that they'd pay for postage, which cost 30-50 pence per second class stamp in the UK circa 2010. Or they'd instead send the PC Gamer staff a text, at the cost of 25 pence "plus your standard network charge" for the 160 characters allowed in a single SMS message. Brevity's the soul of wit and all that, right?
Despite this being a feature of our UK magazine just 15 years ago, the idea of paying a quarter per minuscule text message feels about as ancient and alien a concept to explain to today's youth as floppy disks or long-distance phone calls. Or payphones. Or analog clocks. I think I might be losing the plot here.
Back to the point: It's quaint, but actually quite charming that for several years the magazine ran a column in the letters section devoted to reader text messages and even micro reviews. Here are some of the "best" ones from issues I've recently been re-reading, plus th...
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