STACK #204 Oct 2021

GAMING FEATURE

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STACK’s ROVING REPORTER

What’s your all-time favourite game series?

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Urrrgggghhhhhhhh! Pokémon or The Legend of Zelda ? POKÉMON OR THE LEGEND OF ZELDA ?! Probably Pokémon – my name’s Ash, not Link, after all! I’ve loved Pokémon in all its forms since 1999, and I still do. I love how the games are becoming more diverse and I’m super intrigued by Legends: Arceus . From trading cards to Pokémon Go , all of my needs as an obsessive collector are met, with bonus points for cataloguing and tracking collections. I love the adventure, the battling strategies, the collecting aspect and, obviously, the Pokémon themselves!

SEPTEMBER 2021

1 NBA 2K22

ASH MARKS @ JB Hi-Fi SouthWharf, VIC

2 MARIO KART 8 DELUXE

3 DEATHLOOP

4 RING FIT ADVENTURE

What are you playing currently?

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

Animal Crossing: New Horizons . Is it even lockdown without it? I love having my daily routine, the chill vibe on my island and, honestly, feeling adored by my villagers. Seriously, nobody believes in me as much as they do! I’ve also jumped back into Spider-Man: Miles Morales because it’s such an epic game. The fighting style is so cool and the moves look awesome on the PS5. The characters are so well-rounded, moving and hilarious, and even just swinging around the city between missions still feels rewarding.

5 ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS

Talking about games with other passionate gamers, and introducing new gamers to some of my favourite games – knowing the incredible adventures that they’re about to embark on!

6 JUST DANCE 2021

7 MINECRAFT

8 SONIC COLOURS: ULTIMATE

What’s your earliest video gaming memory?

What would be your desert island console?

9 WARIOWARE:

Playing Pitfall on my brother’s old Atari console on a CRT TV with warped colours! And getting a Gameboy Color for my birthday and having my very own console, with Pokémon Red .

GET IT TOGETHER!

Nintendo GameCube. It has all of my favourite games, and it’s my favourite controller (I honestly don’t know why), plus I have so many good memories of playing Mario Kart Double Dash with my brother. I could play The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker for the rest of my life and still be happy – I might finally conquer the Tower of the Gods! Also, the handle is great, and I feel like it’s the most likely console to survive desert island life.

10 WORLD WAR Z: AFTERMATH

1987

GAME CHANGERS! A YEAR IN GAMING 1987 was another top year for gamers, with a new supercomputer to play with, SEGA’s Out Run burning up the world’s arcades, and new franchises born – Final Fantasy , Mega Man , Phantasy Star and more – that endure to this day. Plus, there was some top biffo…

It may be Street Fighter II that everybody treasures in their memories, but it wouldn’t have existed if not for the original Street Fighter . Capcom’s smash brawler series kicked (and punched) off in ’87, introducing the

Talk about a milestone! What’s considered by many as ground zero for the stealth game genre, this release for the big-in-Japan MSX2 computer was also the first full game

While Commodore’s Amiga 1000 computer debuted in 1985, it was 1987 when the system really took off, thanks to the release of the more affordable 500 variant. It soon found itself the home computer of choice for Aussies graduating from the Commodore 64, and the quantum leap in quality of games that it brought was a huge contributing factor. With specialised graphics and sound chips and speedy 16-bit architecture, home gamers had never had it so good.

realised by rock star developer

Hideo Kojima. It was a port to the Nintendo Entertainment System that established the franchise in the West, introducing us all to special forces operative Solid Snake in a top-down 2D format, before things went 3D third-person in later years.

six-button control system, and special moves that were pulled off by a series of button combos. A one-player experience starring Ryu, a second player (Ken) could also enter and fight the first.

OCTOBER 2021

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