STACK #243 January 2025

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What’s your earliest video gaming memory?

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Playing Sonic the Hedgehog on the SEGA Mega Drive with my dad.

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

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Final Fantasy is my favourite series, with number IX being my absolute favourite.

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What have you been playing most lately?

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth .

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

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

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PS2 - so many great games, including the Sly Cooper series, Ratchet & Clank, Jak and Daxter, and many more. Plus having the ability to still play all the PS1 games was amazing.

Keeping up with the latest gaming news, as well as helping people new to gaming get started, whether it’s getting into consoles or streaming.

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Packing a gun on each limb, squeezed into tight leather, and oozing the sort of schoolmarm charm that fuelled many schoolkid fantasies, the west first said “Hello!” to SEGA and PlatinumGames’ witchy Bayonetta. The creation of Hideki Kamiya ( Devil May Cry ), who wanted to try his hand at a powerful female protagonist, she’s since become a pop culture superstar, sweeties.

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1 What was the first game that you played? I remember playing Pong when I was really young, which was my dad’s, on a black and white TV, and from there I ended up in my early gaming years playing games like Tomb of Drewan and Duck Shoot on his VIC-20. 2 What was the last game that you finished? The last game that I actually finished is a challenge, as I have loads of games on the go, I just haven’t quite boxed them off yet. I’m loving Dave the Diver, Baldur’s Gate 3 , and I still regularly play Deep Rock Galactic . Maybe I need to find some time to actually finish some games?! 3 What’s your favourite video game/series of all time? My favourite video game series of all time has to be Mario. I’ve loved Mario games forever and a day, whether it’s Mario Sunshine , original Super Mario Bros . on the NES, Super Mario 64 , Mario Galaxy - it’s a series where I have to play the games day one. That also includes the spin-off games like Captain Toad , Yoshi’s Crafted World, and Luigi’s Mansion . So many amazing games! 4 What do you think is the most underrated video game of all time? This is an easy one, Conker’s Bad Fur Day . That game is an absolute masterpiece. A masterclass in every shape of the word. If anyone hasn’t played that game, then they must. It is true genius - I think I’ve played it through about five times. 5 What’s the game that you most wish you’d worked on? I would have loved to have worked on Dungeon Keeper back in the day. It’s another game that’s close to my heart, and I would have loved to have been part of it.

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