Philips Magnavox Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution Trigger Happy - Manual (Page 349)

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THE PROMETHEUS ENGINE
God’s gift
In the beginning, heaven and earth were married. Gaia
(earth) and Uranus (the heavens) then gave birth to the
Titans, the twelve gods of earliest times. They had
dominion over all the cosmos. The youngest Titan,
Kronos, married his sister Rhea, but he knew that he
was fated to be supplanted by one of his children. In
order to protect himself, he hit upon the strategy of
eating them all, one by one, as they were born.
However, when the last child, Zeus, fought his way
from the womb, Rhea, sick of her wasted efforts, tricked
her husband and gave him a stone to eat instead, hiding
Zeus away in Crete. When Zeus grew up, he forced
Kronos to disgorge the stone along with