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James Spratt recalls dashing home from school as a teenager to band together online with friends to do battle in Call of Duty, the global video game juggernaut that never gets old.
The franchise deployed by Activision Blizzard 20 years ago helped define the military shooter game genre, winning millions of fans and raking in more than US$30 billion.
And Spratt, to the amazement of his dad, now makes a living sharing his CoD sniper skills on his YouTube channel from his home in Britain.
“At school, we were racing home basically to get a squad of six together because if you missed out on being with your friends, you were playing by yourself,” says Spratt, who recently turned 30 years old.
“There was something about that game that just kept me coming back every year; I was hooked.”
