STACK #217 November 2022

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What’s your all-time favourite game series?

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My all-time favourite series is Halo, but my all-time favourite game is Detroit: Become Human .

JESSICA THOMAS @ JB Hi-Fi Mandurah Home,WA

OCTOBER 2022

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What have you been playing lately?

2 FIFA 23

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

I’ve been playing the PS5 remaster of The Last of Us Part I .

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Getting to see all the new tech and talking about it with other passionate gamers.

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

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What’s your earliest video gaming memory?

Part of me wants to say the Nintendo 64 for nostalgia reasons, but I’ll have to go with the Xbox Series X for its sheer power, and the ability to play games from most of Xbox’s back catalogue. A Halo special edition console of course!

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Playing Emerald Mine on my parents’ Amiga. I used to love the sound it made when you sucked up an emerald.

6 NBA 2K23

7 GOTHAM KNIGHTS

Minecraft – World Beyond Poster

MERCH MONTH of the

Super Mario - Characters Poster

8 MARIO + RABBIDS SPARKS OF HOPE

9 MINECRAFT

Pokémon - Character Panels Poster

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2000

GAME CHANGERS! A YEAR IN GAMING The “Y2K bug” was a fizzer, as banks didn’t crash and planes didn’t fall from the sky, but we did get arguably the greatest console of all time, plus a new way to not be ourselves via computers, and a little undead help in the typing department…

SimCIty creator Will Wright was inspired to make a life simulator after suffering very real tragedy with the destruction of his home in Californian bushfires. Behold, the seed for The Sims was born, and many peoples’ lives were never the same again – especially some of the poor inhabitants of the experience! Those partaking were let loose in a city sandbox, creating one of more of their own characters – Sims - to control the life of, in quite a The

November 30 of 2000 was a big day for Aussie gamers, as Sony’s much-desired PlayStation 2 – available in Japan since March of that year – finally launched locally. The successor to the wildly successful original PlayStation, it brought consoles into the 21st century with such features as internet connectivity, DVD support – you could watch movies on the machine – and backwards compatibility with OG PlayStation games and accessories.

Anybody who’s ever used a computer has likely come across a typing tutor. Some may even have been slightly gamified. But in 2000, SEGA brought home to PC and their Dreamcast the

wildest way to learn to key clack consistently in The Typing of the Dead . Spawned from the arcade game that literally had two computer keyboards fastened to its control panel, players had to type letters, words, or phrases quickly enough to avoid being munched upon by The House of the Dead ’s zombie inhabitants. While it never became a huge genre, rhythm game fans got Beatmania Dadada!! soon after from Konami, and typing games abound to this day. But none have been nearly this cool.

Truman Show kind of way. They’d interact with other inhabitants and, via a wicked AI, would react variously to anything good or bad that was thrown their way. Around 200 million The Sims games have been sold since…

Evolving the DualShock controller, it was what ended up onscreen that really launched the PS2 as the thing to have hooked up to your TV. Over 4,000 games hit the system, and it remains the best-selling console of all time – around 155 million units are out there!

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