Prelude: A few months ago I bought a package of el-cheapo computer games. Part of the package was Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, a real time strategy game (where you collect resources, build up cities and armies and attack other players, for those of you not familiar with this kind of game). Not a huge fan of Star Wars and knowing LucasArts' penchant for cranking out cheaply made Star Wars games, I installed the game on my computer first in hopes of beating it quickly and getting it out of the way. Of course, leave it to this game to have over 150 hours of game play!

Anyway, about two weeks before I finally finished the game, I was hopelessly searching for a saved game since Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds has an annoying habit of saving your games alphabetically rather than by date saved. 'Ah yes, I remember the game I was last playing...it started with T...' - how helpful. But this was a blessing in disguise as, pretty soon, I started cracking up at the names of the games I had saved. I quickly realized that I was looking at an anthropological record of my own state of mind at various points in the game. Even better, I was looking at some cheap, easy art and handy one-off update content for my website: a found list poem!

This is an actual 'found' poem. I wasn't saving these crazy names with the idea that I'd turn it into this. I edited out a few of the less interesting game names, particularly repeats (kill!1, kill!2, kill!3, etc...), but that was merely to keep an already long list short and interesting.

Do you have any saved games that might make a good 'Saved Games' found list poem? If you do, send in some screenshots and I'll put them up. It's important that they be 'found', though, so don't just go out and start saving crazy game names. Anybody could do that.