I began buying with my brother the magazine about computer games Level in year 1996. At that time this magazine cost 30 crowns (Kc), then the magazine was always more and more expensive and it costs 249.90 Kc today. It is otherwise the truth that since 1999 the part of the magazine has been the full version of game on PC but if the game was good so I have already bought it and in the wrong games I am not interested. At first I bought it at the newspaper stall, later I was the subscriber. I remember how I looked forward to every new copy and read the magazine from the editorial up to the last page including the insertions. There was a great bunch of editors there who wrote jokeful reviews, above all on the worst games. Thus I laughed even by reading. Now the reviews seem to me boring, without humour. There is another magazine about computer games called Score on our market which I also bought from time to time. I stopped buying Level about a year ago, the main reason was the price and also that the magazine has less pages than it used to have. Now I read about computer games on internet sites like bonusweb, hrej, games.tiscali and gamespot. I think that information of this sort is enough on internet and I don't need to read the paper magazines yet. The only magazine that I read regularly at present is periodical Svet but this one is about science. The advantage is that there are actual information, trailers and demos here. The disadvantage is that I cannot read it in bath, in bed, in the train when I travel etc.

Once I heard speak in television about patrons and this topic took me somehow. Not from the reason that I would be pious, I was interested who is the patron who. This word is from Latin "patronus" - the protector. He is a saint or an angel whom is entrusted the protection of certain temple, person, life-status, occupation, town or country. Various occupation has its own patron, for example I looked up these ones:

St George - patron of soldiers and farmers

St Lucas - patron of doctors and artists

St Prokop - patron of miners

St Lawrence - patron of cooks

St Dominic - patron of scientists and astronomers

St Florian - patron of firemen, metallurgists, chimney-sweepers, potters and bakers, etc.

But have computer enthusiasts anyone? I have found out that yes. For those who browse on web pages there is a good news here. Even internet has its own patron - St Isidor. Isidor came from New Carthage, from an excellent Spain-Roman family. In year 554, during the attack of Byzantine emperor on Spain, the father of St Isidor escaped to Sevilla. After the death of his parents his brother, archbishop of the town, took care of him. In year 559, after the death of his brother, was Isidor chosen for the metropolitan of Sevilla. He bossed 37 years wisely and eagerly his archdiocese, sanctioned laws touching the religious discipline and ecclesiastic life. He died on 4th April 636, in age 82. Pope Innocent XII declared St Isidor the teacher of the Church. The Spain informatics, inspired with the data and with the recommendation of the papal court for the communication media, admited St Isidor for the patron of internet and the computer users. The main reason is especially most significant work of this saint - Etymologiae, where he summarized knowledge from medicine, mathematics, history and theology. This book of information from various areas of life and science is similar to present databases.

And what we, computer players? Does anybody keep an eye on us? If so far didn't exist any patron for us, I suggest Lara Croft to be this one. Why she? This character is well-known even among the people who don't play games and it is here a long time among us. We spent a lot of time with her. And surely each of you had at least once some dream in which she appeared. So you can see, she is with you day and night.

The prayer to this patron is following:

St Lara, protector of all fair players

Who are inside our computers

Save us from bugs, stupid AI and bloody hardware requirements

May we have more frags and headshots

Bring us a lot of entertainment with the slashing till the night

Give us bigger accuracy and quick fingers to die less often

I wish there are more quality games and less extended slops

May the games come out in time, no delays

Catch the pirates, arrest them and cast them into the darkest prison

Let rust their computers on the scrapyard

Amen.