From Stick Men to Superstars: My Four Decades Watching Sports Games Grow Up
Sports games have always been one of my favourite genres. I accidentally fell into them. Match Day was released during my avid Spectrum playing years...
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How The SNES vs Genesis War Split My Retro Gaming Heart — And My Wallet
In 2011, I went into a barroom brawl that had been going on for twenty years. Now, everybody was arguing about something that happened when...
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Why Crash Bandicoot Never Quite Hit the Same in the UK – A PlayStation Memory
Disclaimer: This article doesn’t focus solely on Crash 4: It’s About Time. As we all know by now, it’s meant to set up my review...
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That Time Donkey Kong Country Made Me Question Reality (And My SNES)
I was sixteen years old and had roughly $12 to my name. During my free time I found myself spending quite an excessive amount of...
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How SimCity Taught Me Systems Thinking at 40 (And Why I Can’t Stop Building Digital Cities)
When I started playing city-building games I didn’t take them too seriously. I’m used to the idea of games teaching me something, but playing SimCity...
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Why Banjo-Kazooie Made Me Question Everything I Thought I Knew About 3D Platformers
Let’s just get this out of the way: I never played Banjo-Kazooie upon its release back in 1998. I know, blasphemy, right? So there I...
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Sonic’s Summer That Changed Gaming Forever
Everything changed for me that summer in 1991. I was fourteen years old and incredibly awkward like all teenagers are and my friend Mike got...
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The Soundtracks That Made Me Cry (And Why My Dad Called Them Beeps and Boops)
The first time video game music made me cry was listening to the ending of Final Fantasy VI on my Genesis. Okay, Final Fantasy VI...
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Two Controllers, One Couch: Why Playing Next to Each Other Still Beats Online
The first thing I have to confess is that I thought video games were a solo experience for a long time. Honestly, growing up poor...
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The Day Metroid Taught Me That Getting Lost Could Be Fun
Metroid was the “click.” I remember well the first time I realised that Metroid was going to be different – and it wasn’t going to...
