STACK #255 January 2026

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What’s your earliest video gaming memory?

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Being excited to play Need for Speed: Underground 2 and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 after school with friends.

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What’s your all-time favourite game or game series?

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For PS2 it’s a hard choice between the Need for Speed, Kingdom Hearts, and Dragon Ball series.

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What have you been playing most lately?

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I’m a PC gamer, so I’ve been playing a lot of my main game, which is Path of Exile , but when I’m not playing that I’ve been cranking the ‘90s in the new Fortnite season.

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

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

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When a customer comes into the department there’s a high chance that they’re also a gamer, so I enjoy being able to ask and talk about what their interests are, which also helps me expand my gaming knowledge.

I would love to relive the PlayStation 2 era once again.

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Are you up to answering all eight of this month’s game related posers?

1. What are the names of Tom Nook’s two apprentices in Animal Crossing: New Horizons ? 2. Who was the player on the cover of 1992’s E.T.’s Rugby Leagu e? 3. To what popular platformer series were Yooka-Laylee and its spin-offs/remakes spiritual successors? 4. What’s the name of the main protagonist in Slime Rancher and its sequel? 5. On which console did the original Final Fantasy VII first release? 6. Which classic Chinese novel is the Dynasty Warriors series based on? 7. What was special about the PlayStation logo on the PS2? 8. What was the name of the first major video game developed in Australia, released in 1983?

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ANSWERS on page 44

1 What was the first game that you played? Either The Lion King (1994) or Lemmings ... followed by a lot of Fantasy World Dizzy . I used to play with my dad. 2 What was the last game that you finished? I play mostly simulation games, but I did finish Little Kitty, Big City recently. 3 What’s your favourite video game/series of all time? Two Point , of course! To give a runner up though, Fable . 4 What do you think is the most underrated video game of all time? I play a lot of small indie co-op games with my family and often they’re lots of fun, but don’t see the success that they should. Two examples are Treadnauts and Duck Game . 5 What’s the game that you most wish you’d worked on? Fable .

Executive producer on Two Point Museum at Two Point Studios JO KOEHLER

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