STACK #212 June 2022

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What’s your all-time favourite game series?

Bioshock has to be my favourite modern game series. I picked up the original game on a whim one day and the twist is still my all-time biggest shock in a video game.

JUNE 2022

ZACH JUST @ JB Hi-Fi Brisbane Central, QLD

1 NINTENDO SWITCH SPORTS

What have you been playing lately?

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

2 MARIO KART 8 DELUXE

I’ve been playing a lot of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart on the PS5 lately. It’s just a lot of fun to run around and smash everything with your wrench! Plus, it has absolutely stunning visuals that make it just a pleasure to play.

Getting to help customers find their next favourite game of all time is probably the most rewarding experience, plus helping the next generation of gamers find the perfect game to start with.

3 LEGO STAR WARS:

THE SKYWALKER SAGA

4 ELDEN RING

What’s your earliest video gaming memory?

5 KIRBY AND THE

What would be your desert island console?

FORGOTTEN LAND

It would have to be opening my Nintendo 64 limited edition Pokémon console with Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Snap on Christmas morning in 2000.

That would easily be the Nintendo Switch. It has such a huge library of new and old games that it would be almost impossible to get through them all!

6 POKÉMON LEGENDS: ARCEUS

7 BATTLEFIELD 2042

Super Mario “Power Up!” Water Bottle

Super Mario Gift Set

MERCH MONTH of the

8 ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS

9 GRAN TURISMO 7

10 FIFA 22

Mario Kart Red Shell Light with Sound

Super Mario Mushroom Light

Super Mario Characters Mug

1995

GAME CHANGERS! A YEAR IN GAMING While sequels aplenty kept coming, the PlayStation finally launched in Australia to great success, Nintendo’s biggest flop came and went, racing got seriously stylish (and pointy!), and a legless new platforming star was born…

British developers Psygnosis were bought out by Sony in 1993, and soon set to work on what was to become one of the PAL territories’ launch PlayStation games – and one of its absolute best – in Wipeout . A futuristic anti-gravity racing game set on, well, futuristic tracks flying futuristic craft, it looked like nothing else, thanks to the engagement of very hip artsy types The Designer’s Republic. It also sounded wild, being one of the first games to draft serious names in

You win some, you lose some, and Nintendo lost big after spending four years developing their tabletop console the Virtual Boy. Looking somewhat akin to a cross between a robot and an outdoor barbecue, it touted

It was the year that a French platforming star was born in the limbless Rayman. He was the creation of Ubisoft game designer Michel Ansel who, as well as overseeing several more Rayman games in ensuing decades, also directed 2003’s classic Beyond Good & Evil . While not the first platforming hero that usually comes to mind, the Rayman series has seen 45 games over various formats, and his world was also what spawned the Rabbids. Looking

stereoscopic 3D graphics as its main draw – in glorious, erm, black and red. It launched in Japan in July and the US in August – PAL territories never saw it officially – and was renowned for inducing headaches in many of the handful of people who bought it. Only 22 games were ever officially released, before manufacture was ceased within mere months of its launch.

much like demented rabbits, these bonkers characters first appeared in minigame-fest Rayman Raving Rabbids , and subsequently went into a successful spin-off world of their very own. BWAH!

electronic music such as The Chemical Brothers, Orbital and Leftfield, the sort of music/game fusion that is now commonplace.

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