STACK #247 May 2025

FEATURE GAMING

What’s your earliest video gaming memory?

Playing the SEGA with my dad, having to constantly pull the cartridge out and blow into it to try to get it working.

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

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Fallout . no matter how many times I try to play it, I still find myself playing it through with the same choices and siding with the same faction every time. I’m definitely attached to certain characters.

’ s ROVING REPORTER

1 ASSASSIN’S CREED SHADOWS

2 INDIANA JONES

AND THE GREAT CIRCLE

What have you been playing most lately?

3 MINECRAFT

LAUREN ANASIS @ JB Dubbo, NSW

Red Dead Redemption 2 for a second playthrough, I’ve been going to find every little thing I can to get as much out of the game as possible.

4 EA SPORTS FC 25

5 SPLIT FICTION

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

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

6 MARIO KART 8 DELUXE

Getting to talk about one of my favourite hobbies with customers every day doesn’t make it feel like work.

PlayStation 1. The nostalgia just hits different for me.

7 SUPER MARIO PARTY JAMBOREE

8 GRAND THEFT AUTO V

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

1. Which planet was the initial setting for the original Doom ? 2. What was the name of the forerunner to Revenge of the Savage Planet ? 3. What was Grand Theft Auto creators DMA Design’s other huge original game series? 4. What was the name of Capcom’s first arcade fighting game release? 5. What was the name of the Nintendo 64 game where you destroyed buildings in the path of a runaway nuclear missile carrier? 6. What was the name of Atari’s 1985 newspaper delivery arcade game? 7. What was the name of the helicopter-based 1987 SEGA arcade shooter? 8. What did FromSoftware make before getting into game development?

9 NBA 2K25

10 SUPER MARIO BROS. WONDER

GAME EXAM

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ANSWERS on page 16

1 What was the first game that you played? Oh, it’s Pong on Atari, for sure. That was the first game, but the first time I really, really fell in love with video games was Super Mario Bros. , the first one. 2 What was the last game that you finished? The last game I finished was Indiana Jones and the Great Circle that just recently came out. I really liked that. 3 What’s your favourite video game/series of all time? It’s really hard, but I can say there are three of them that I always take up as examples. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Half-Life 2, and Super Mario Galaxy 2 . Not particularly the whole series, but at least those three, because they represent how great games can be in very different ways. 4 What do you think is the most underrated video game of all time? Oh, interesting. OK. I would say a game that a lot of people are missing is Conker’s Bad Fur Day . It was done by Rare, and it was really nice, actually. 5 What’s the game that you most wish you’d worked on? I would say in the ‘90s, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past .

Director on Split Fiction at Hazelight Studios JOSEF FARES

Conker’s Bad Fur Day

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