I can still feel that bloody great CRT monitor trying to slip out of my sweaty hands as I navigated Tom’s parents’ narrow staircase. Thirty-two pounds of essential gaming kit, and if I dropped the thing, there went three months of weekend job money down the drain. Behind me, Dave was having a proper meltdown trying to wrestle his tower case around the corner – custom built beast that had cost him his entire summer…
The most terrifying boss I’ve ever faced wasn’t some eight-bit nightmare from my Amiga days or even that bastard difficult…
The first time a video game made me actually cry, I was twenty years old in 1998, sitting in my…
I was thirteen when my mam discovered my copy of Mortal Kombat hidden under a stack of Amiga Format magazines.…
Man, you know you’ve hit that weird middle-aged point when you’re explaining to your students why I can still remember…
I gotta be honest—I never thought a blocky sandbox game would be what finally broke through the wall my nephew…
Had this proper moment the other week while setting up my nephew’s PlayStation 5 – he’s back from uni for…
I was stood in Currys PC World in 2006, hunting for a replacement power lead for my knackered PlayStation 2,…
Right, so I’ve got to tell you about the first time I encountered proper 3D gaming, because it was one…
I’ve got this plastic storage container in my basement that I guard like it contains the Declaration of Independence or…
