Part 1 - Setting the Stage

<b>"Only the rich can get justice; only the poor cannot escape it."</b>

<b>-- Henry Demarest Lloyd, ["Lords of Industry," by Henry Demarest Lloyd, 1910, chapter 1.]</b>

The last time I purchased a game for my computer was over two years ago. It was State of Emergency, by Rockstar Games. It was somewhat old, so the price had been cut down and I thought I could splurge on a game that was just twenty dollars. To my great dismay, the game would not run. I reinstalled new drivers for every piece of hardware on my computer and I followed the step-by-step instructions of the trouble-shooting manual. Still, there were no positive results. Since there was no patch available on the Rockstar Games website, I e-mailed technical support. They responded, telling me to install new drivers. When I told them that I already did that, they told me they couldn't help me. But, I'm a gamer at heart, so I tried desperately. I installed the game on two other computers, all