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What’s your earliest video gaming memory?

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Either playing Crash Bandicoot on the PS1 for the first time and rinse and repeating the Hog Wild mission. Or, at five years old, scaring myself, the

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siblings, and cousins to death playing the first ever Resident Evil . Pro tip: Don’t open the front door in the mansion!

What’s your all-time favourite game or game series?

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Halo .

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What have you been playing most lately?

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Mostly Battlefield 6 myself. But I’ve also been dabbling into Minecraft , Ultimate Chicken Horse , and Golf with Your Friends with my daughter, as she just got her own little setup!

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You can only have one games console from any era – what would it be and why?

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What’s the best thing about working in games at JB?

Xbox 360. A time when online play for consoles really took off and blew everybody’s minds. Party chat was first introduced, killstreaks in Call of Duty for the first time, Halo 3 custom games, and Forge mode. Gears of War with a chainsaw on an assault rif le, 1 vs. 100 for actual Microsoft points, Doritos Crash Course ... The list goes on!

Speaking to everyone of all ages and sexes about the same passion. Anyone can game! My best memory is when a mid-80s couple came in and bought a Razer Naga mouse each, because they had been playing World of Warcraft for the last 15 years.

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Are you up to answering all eight of this month’s game related posers?

1. What have recent new entries in SEGA’s Yakuza series been known as outside of Japan? 2. What’s the surname of Samus from the Metroid series? 3. With which Japanese developer did Square Enix collaborate on Octopath Traveler ? 4. Which SNK Japanese warrior arcade fighting game series boasts more than a dozen main entries? 5. Which has been around longer, Microsoft Flight Simulator, or Microsoft Windows ? 6. In what year did the original Farming Simulator release? 7. How did you control the eye-tracking game Before Your Eyes ? 8. Which arcade fighting game used digitised actors two years before Mortal Kombat ?

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1 What was the first game that you played? Donkey Kong

2 What was the last game that you finished? Star Wars: Outlaws

3 What’s your favourite video game/series of all time? Mass Effect

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4 What do you think is the most underrated video game of all time? Tenchu: Stealth Assassins

5 What’s the game that you most wish you’d worked on? Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Donkey Kong

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