STACK #264 October 2026

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What’s your earliest video gaming memory?

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Playing Godzilla: Save the Earth on PS2 with my older siblings and it being the only game I could beat them in.

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

It’s a toss-up between Godzilla: Save the Earth or Spectrobes: Origins .

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What have you been playing most lately?

3 FIRE EMBLEM:

Currently I’m playing Reanimal on PS5, and Marvel Rivals on PC – still!

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ANTONIA MEDCALF @ JB Broadway, NSW

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

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

Nintendo Wii. I have lots of childhood memories with this system where my closest sibling and I played for hours and hours on end. We had quite the collection!

6 ONIMUSHA:

Learning and discovering new things about the games community and gaming hardware.

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

8 LEGO BATMAN: LEGACY OF THE DARK KNIGHT

1. How many sports simulations were included in the original Wii Sports for Nintendo Wii? 2. Which wild franchise did the Rayman series spawn in 2006? 3. What was the full name of Ace Combat 7 ? 4. What’s the name of the primary antagonists in the Gears of War series? 5. Who are the three core protagonists in the Kingdom Hearts games? 6. Who had a hit with the song Just Dance , which the game series is named after? 7. Who was the original Castlevania protagonist? 8. In Japan, SEGA released transparent pink and blue Hello Kitty variants of which of their consoles?

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1 What was the first game that you played? I grew up in the ‘80s and we had a ColecoVision when I was a little kid. I played Coleco games over and over like Antarctic Adventure, Mouse Trap, Smurf, and Space Panic . Some of the sound effects in those games still pop into my head decades later! 2 What was the last game that you finished? I love starting new games, but I don’t always roll credits before jumping over to a new game. There are so many amazing games to play every year I want to get to them all! With that said, I’m working on finishing up Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty , and I recently finished a cosy game called Go-Go Town . 3 What’s your favourite video game/series of all time? Outside of any series I’ve worked on, Zelda comes to mind as a consistently amazing series for decades. I remember the first time I walked outside the house at the beginning of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and being floored by the rain, music, and atmosphere. Just writing about it brings a smile to my face and makes me want to go back and re-play. 4 What do you think is the most underrated video game of all time? Not underrated of all time, but I really enjoyed The Alters last year and was surprised I didn’t hear more people talking about it. For me it was a great mix of base-building/ management alongside an interesting story and lots of player choice.

Senior project director on Marvel’s Wolverine at Insomniac Games JESS REINER-REED

5 What’s the game that you most wish you’d worked on? I’m amazed by the sheer scale and RPG depth of a game like Kingdom Come: Deliverance II , so it would be fun to see how that comes together behind the scenes. I’d also love to be a fly on the wall to understand the development process for some Nintendo first party titles, like Donkey Kong Bananza . They’re just best in class for making fun features work for many hours of gameplay. Can I also work on a Katamari game? That seems like it would be a blast to work on!

Katamari

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