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

Alan Wake for the Xbox 360 is my all-time favourite game, but Pokémon is my favourite game series. I even have a tattoo of one of the Legendary Pokémon.

MARCH 2024

LIAM GATLEY @ JB Hi-Fi Home Greensborough, VIC

1 PRINCESS PEACH: SHOWTIME!

What have you been playing most lately?

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

2 HELLDIVERS 2

My attention at the moment has been divided between Helldivers 2 and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth . Mowing down bug aliens and robots for Super Earth, then saving the world as a pointy-haired blonde anime guy, are my two favourite things!

3 FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH

Talking to all the likeminded gamers about all the cool new games and tech coming out.

4 DRAGON’S DOGMA 2

What’s your earliest video gaming memory?

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

5 RISE OF THE RONIN

6 MARIO KART 8 DELUXE

The Wii! The catalogue of games on the Wii is insane, then adding the GameCube library with backwards compatibility, endless joy can be had!

Playing GoldenEye 007 and Mario Kart 64 with my cousins and aunties around Christmas.

7 MARIO VS. DONKEY KONG

Check out these ace PowerA Enhanced Wireless Controllers for Nintendo Switch! MERCH MONT H M H of the

8 WWE 2K24

9 SUPER MARIO BROS. WONDER

Mario Super Star Friends

Pikachu Garden

10 EA SPORTS FC 24

Peely Fortnite

Pikachu Vibrant

2017

GAME CHANGERS! A YEAR IN GAMING As the PS4 and Xbox One continued to duke it out, Nintendo finally released their successor to the Wii U, and it quickly dominated the year…

It was an idea so simple, yet it hadn’t been done before. A powerful home console in a form that could be used portably just as easily as it could attached to the TV. Having seen the relative failure of the Wii U, Nintendo hit it out of the park with the Switch, combining a TV connected dock with a handheld unit, complete with easily removable controllers. Providing a platform for many of the top-notch Wii U games that many missed out on, the Switch has continued to hold its own against newer generation consoles from PlayStation and Xbox and has given us some incredible game experiences.

Arguably the greatest title released for Switch, and also simply one of the greatest games ever,

Arriving on the launch day of the Nintendo Switch as the system’s killer, must-have title, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was also the final first-party game released for

all-new Mario adventure Super Mario Odyssey stunned upon release, just seven months into the life of the Switch. A sandbox 3D challenge, it combined the familiar with the new in a sprawling

the Wii U. It was certainly a stunning way to go out for the Wii U, and to mark the arrival of the Switch. Taking five years to develop, it was set at the end of the Zelda timeline, with an amnesiac Link heading out to both rescue Zelda and save the world from Ganon’s destructive plans. A massive, non-linear open world greeted players, as did new systems including chemistry, as well as classic puzzles and numerous side quests.

adventure over many kingdoms in order to – you know it – save Princess Peach from the clutches of Bowser. Hey, some things never change! The game added Mario’s sentient, weaponised cap, named Cappy, and a Power Moon collection mechanism to gain enough juice to fly an airship between worlds.

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