STACK #259 May 2026

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What’s your earliest video gaming memory?

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Crash Bandicoot on the PS1. Love those classic sound effects! I really enjoyed that segment in Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End where you played classic levels of Crash on a virtual PS1.

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

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The Witcher . Give me The Witcher 4 NOW!

What have you been playing most lately?

1 POKÉMON POKOPIA

Resident Evil Requiem . Leon can and will do anything for the ‘WOW’ moment. He’s aura farming his way into my heart! This game perfectly encapsulates both horror and action into a perfectly neat bow. Combining elements from previous RE titles, this game shocks and impresses with both game mechanics and story beats! 10/10 – Leon, I love you!

RYAN CICERAN @ JB Fyshwick, ACT

2 TOMODACHI LIFE: LIVING THE DREAM

3 CRIMSON DESERT

4 SUPER MARIO GALAXY + SUPER MARIO GALAXY 2

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?

5 RESIDENT EVIL REQUIEM

The enjoyment of working in a department that tailors to my specific interests. Keeping up to date about new releases and pre-orders is now part of my job!

PS5. Thank goodness consoles have 60fps now. Never going back!

6 DONKEY KONG BANANZA

7 MINECRAFT

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

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1. Which edition of Forza Horizon was set in a condensed version of Australia? 2. Which Supermassive Games release was adapted into a 2025 movie? 3. In which Super Nintendo game did Yoshi make his debut? 4. In what year did LEGO Batman: The Videogame release? 5. The first ever 007 game was a text adventure, released in 1982. What was its name? 6. What was the name of the first Bluey game on consoles? 7. What was the name of the 2010 Disney game that reintroduced the character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit? 8. What was the name of the first game in the long-running Bandai Namco Tales series?

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1 What was the first game that you remember playing? It was probably a dedicated home Pong set that my brother brought over to my parents’ house. But I wasn’t truly bitten by the video game bug until I first encountered Space Invaders . 2 What’s your favourite video game of all time? I should say Robotron: 2084 , although I’m by no means super-skilled at it. It’s just such a perfect, brutal, elegant design. It’ll kick your head in again and again, but you’ll always come back for another go. It was technically amazing for its time, with lovely shattering explosions and more enemies onscreen than anything that had been seen at that time by far. Vid Kidz Jarvis/DeMar at their best. 3 What do you think is the most underrated video game of all time? I’d say the sequel to Robotron, Blaster . Not that it was a better game – it was decent, but not as good as Roby . It’s more the fact that it was *originally* made for 8-bit Atari hardware (the 5200), but Williams didn’t want to release a home version before an arcade version, so the Vid Kidz did a port of the game to arcade. I think back in the day I’d have just about peed my pants at the idea of an original game for the Atari from the creators of Defender, Stargate , and Robotron , my absolute heroes of game design and the single biggest inspiration to me in developing my own games. 4 Which of the games that you’ve created is your favourite? I’m always going to say Hover Bovver , because it was a collaborative design between me and my dad, and made at a time when everything was going really well and the games biz was just a fun and creative place to be. 5 What are you working on currently? I’m currently working on a multiuser VR light synth.

Creative force of Llamasoft since 1981 JEFF MINTER

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