STACK #205 Nov 2021

GAMING FEATURE

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What’s your all-time favourite game series?

Just Dance – I’ve been playing since the first game was released. I still remember the first dance that I did, which

OCTOBER 2021

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was Pump Up the Jam and I was hooked! I love dancing, so this game was made for me.

VICTORIA LEWIS @ JB Hi-Fi Artarmon, NSW

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3 METROID DREAD

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

5 NBA 2K22

What have you been playing lately?

New releases! Sharing knowledge of new releases to our customers and staff. I love the hype of new releases that are coming, such as setting up the point-of-sale materials for them, pre-ordering the games for customers and processing the games/hardware. The day of release is always fun because I am hype and the customers are hype as well. So, it’s all-round good vibes!

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons . I’ve been playing now for over a year and half, and I’m still going strong. I keep coming back because I want my island to keep turning over, plus I enjoy the village lifestyle like going fishing, digging up fossils, etc. And who can’t get over Isabelle, she is so cute! I love her random saying at the start of each game.

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8 BACK 4 BLOOD

What’s your earliest video gaming memory?

9 DEMON SLAYER:

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What would be your desert island console?

My earliest video game memory is Donkey Kong on the original Nintendo Game &Watch. My aunty has original Game &Watches at her place with Donkey Kong , Mario and Fireman . They all still work!

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Nintendo Switch, because it has my favourite games like Just Dance , Animal Crossing and Pokémon . It will keep me going until I die!

Pac-Man Mug

Super Mario Pencil Case

Animal Crossing Match

Pac-Man T-Shirt

Grand Prix T-Shirt

Super Mario Monopoly

Call of Duty T-Shirt

GAME CHANGERS! A YEAR IN GAMING It was the year that SEGA joined the 16-bit console era, Alexey Pajitnov’s super-puzzler Tetris hit the west, a new powerhouse Nintendo developer made their mark, and both arcade and home manufacturers really doubled down on the joys of the money-spinning sequel…

1988

When you’re on a good thing, stick to it. Never was this mantra more apt than with games

A new racing game from UK developer Rare, R.C. Pro Am , impressed the socks off players the world over, and also those at Nintendo who’d contracted them. In subsequent years, the partnership went on to

While NEC had launched the PC Engine in 1987, it was SEGA’s Mega Drive – or Genesis, if you’re American – that packed in true 16-bit power and really went big worldwide. First released in Japan in October of 1988 (Australia finally got it two years later), it was based around the company’s System 16 arcade board. The Mega Drive really was built for games, and home versions of many SEGA arcade hits were the closest

manufacturers in 1988. The practice of releasing sequels went wild – and hasn’t abated since. In the arcades we had the likes of Double Dragon II: The Revenge fromTechn ō s and Capcom’s Ghouls ‘n Ghosts, while home gamers played Dragon Quest III, Super Mario Bros. 2 (a reskinned Yume K ō j ō : Doki Doki Panic ), Super Mario Bros. 3, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Final Fantasy II, Mega Man 2 and more.

that you’d get to having to pop coins into slots to play.

spawn some of the most-loved games ever on Nintendo consoles, with Rare titles including Battletoads, Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, Golden Eye 007, Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark, Conker’s Bad Fur Day and STACK favourite Blast Corps .

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