Ryan Castle's Story

You wrote Tuesday, March 30th, 1999

Hello there Dave,

My name is Ryan Castle and I have reached 14,481,221. I live in Sydney, Australia and I am 17..

I'm meant to give you the story too. I have been playing for a little over a week. Last year I sneaked the game onto the school computers and spent most of the year playing. I never got above 5 million though. My, this is a riveting story. I stopped playing it because I found a girlfriend and I was ashamed to let her know that I spent the better part of my life watching balls bounce. So I deleted all traces of it. We broke up about a month ago and the first thing I thought of was JezzBall. I found it again on the internet and started playing. I was determined to get onto the board. It was one of those goals that you have to achieve not because it really means anything in itself but because it is something that was never finished.. For the last week I have been without a keyboard because it screwed up a couple of million points into the game. I missed school assignments and my family has been unable to play Freecell (although I keep telling them how much more worthy of obsession JezzBall is). But eventually the top 20 came into reach. At about 11 million something I never thought could happen did. I found myself feeling bored. Every day I forced myself to play a couple of levels. My bonuses dropped to unheard of figures but I kept going. And today I got there. I couldn't remember what the bottom score on the list was because Windows no longer had the stamina to let me connect to the internet. So I went a little higher just to be safe. At 14 and a half million I stopped and committed suicide.

And I hope I never play another game of JezzBall again.

Ryan

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