STACK #196 Feb 2021

GAMING FEATURE

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What’s your all-time favourite game series?

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BioShock, for sure! I love seeing a dystopian world under the sea AND above the sky. Like, that’s absolutely creative! The game itself has so much hidden lore and I find it all so fascinating.

JANUARY 2021

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2 CALL OF DUTY:

BLACK OPS COLD WAR

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

What are you playing currently?

3 ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS

Cyberpunk 2077 . I’ve always been a fan of the cyberpunk genre, so having a game that’s literally named ‘Cyberpunk’ is a dream come true!

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Definitely having a new challenge every day, and being one of the first to see new products that relate to myself. I love gaming, and if it’s taught me one thing it’s that there are people like me everywhere that I go, and being able to work in an area I love allows me to meet more and more people who have the same interests.

5 HITMAN III

6 MINECRAFT

7 NBA 2K21

What’s your earliest video gaming memory?

8 SUPER MARIO 3D ALL-STARS

What would be your desert island console?

9 SUPER SMASH

I wasn’t allowed to play many games as a child, so when my dad brought home a PC for me to play some games on, I went wild! I stayed up all night playing Star Wars Battlefront II (OG version). It felt magical – I still remember the old creaky desk the computer was on.

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10 ASSASSIN’S CREED VALHALLA

My PC. I’d play right under a sweet little palm tree on a desk I made with palm tree leaves and rocks.

GAME CHANGERS! A YEAR IN GAMING By 1979 the games industry was firing, with some great examples – and some shockers – appearing everywhere from hastily rented stores full of machines to the corner of the local fish and chip shop. The home video game boom also fired up… 1979

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With Atari’s VCS console red hot, there was a huge market for games. California’s Activision, Inc. were the first to jump into the third-party developer pool, formed by four disgruntled former Atari employees. These included one David Crane, who went on to create such legendary titles as Pitfall! and the first Ghostbusters game.

With no one particular system of bringing games to screen dominating as yet, Atari’s new arcade smash wowed were monochrome, but images were made from lines rather than pixels, and gave a cool futuristic vibe. Plus, the game totally rocked! Still, vector graphics died soon after. players with vector graphics. Sure, they

Whoa! It’s Space Invaders , but it’s in full colour and… OMG, they’re falling from the sky and attacking! Japanese company Namco went “BAM!” with their now classic Galaxian , aiming to take on the might of Taito’s coin-gobbling shmup, and succeeding. It’s also notable as the forerunner to timeless arcade shooter Galaga .

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