Anyway, what I’m getting at here is that I think there may have been a carefully thought out plan to design shopping trolleys as a secret tribute to GoldenEye. I’ve found you generally achieve optimum momentum and control when you push it at around a 45 degree angle. It’s as if there is an unspoken understanding between shopping trolley designer and the initiated few. Once your hands grasp that shopping trolley bar, all you need do is angle it at 45 degrees, push it just a little and think of GoldenEye. Soon enough you’ll come to accept that you’re actually James Bond! You didn’t even have to work out at Globo Gym or get cosmetic surgery.

If you go shopping late at night like I do, you also avoid the mum and three kids network congestion. This lets you really get into it as you run the trolley through the isles, frantically searching for the golden gun syrup. Depending on your dedication, you could probably even syrup-shoot a few russians checkout assistants with it once you find it. Try this on the wrong person though and your health could quickly become depleted, especially if they don’t die in one hit after all. Either way, shopping centre security would probably bar you from ever playing that level again, so you’d have to find yourself another supermarket. I’m yet to wear a suit grocery shopping, but one day I’ll have to try it, just to see if it enhances the experience (without having to find a new supermarket every Monday).

What things back in the real world induce your gaming nostalgia?