It was supposed to become the event of the video gaming world. A series of four games, each subject to a large-scale real-life competition. Promising prizes supposedly worth $25000 each. The four winners then going on to the big finals, going for the ultimate reward worth another $50000. Not just any prizes, mind you, but custom-made ones of real gold and gems, appropriate to the low fantasy theme selected for the series and appropriate named "Chalice of Light" or "Sword of Ultimate Sorcery". Players of the time being largely teenagers or at best young adults, the lure of winning such a competition must have been huge!