STACK #241 November 2024

FEATURE GAMING

What’s your earliest video gaming memory?

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When I was a kid, my stepbrother and I would stay up all night playing Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance . It was just such a great fun game that was in the world of Dungeons and Dragons. It’s definitely the reason for my current D&D/TTRPG addiction.

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

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While it’s been a while since I’ve played it, The Sims series will always have a place in my heart. It really brought me into the creative genre of games. Introducing myself to the series in the midst of The Sims 2 , I’ve spent a lot of time and money getting all the Sims physical copies and hope to eventually go back and play them all.

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What have you been playing most lately?

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Baldur’s Gate 3 ! Started from the bottom and now we’re at the greatest game of all time!

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

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The PS2 - it was my first personal console that wasn’t the family’s or shared. With great games like Need for Speed: Underground , as well as Spider-Man 2 , Jak and Daxter, Pixar’s Cars, and LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game , it was just hit after hit!

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

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I get to passionately talk about all sorts of gaming products and games day in day out.

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British developers Rare brought new life to platforming games with their Super Nintendo exclusive Donkey Kong Country . While still essentially a 2D platformer, it was the use of pre rendered 3D graphics that prompted reviewers and gamers alike to stumble for descriptive superlatives.

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titles that are also very good, but if I had to pick, I would say that I wish more people liked and bought the Dragon Quest series outside of Japan. 5 What’s the game that you most wish you’d worked on? I really like Star Wars and Marvel content, so I am really jealous of the teams that get to work on those series.

1 What’s the first game that you remember playing? I think the very first game I ever played was Pong by Atari, but I think the first games that I thought were really interesting and fun to play were Space Invaders and Pac-Man . 2 What was the last game that you finished? I haven’t had a lot of time to play many of the games I purchased all the way to the end. I don’t think I have seen the endings to any games I’ve played since The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild .

3 What’s your favourite video game/series of all time? I am from the Famicom (NES) generation of gamers, so I’ve played through all the Mario and Zelda series games, as well as the Dragon Quest series games because I liked them so much.

Sonic Team creative officer on Sonic X Shadow Generations at SEGA. TAKASHI IIZUKA

4 What do you think is the most underrated video game of all time? That’s hard, because I spend so much time playing well-rated

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