I’ve been glued to screens since 1984. Proper gaming screens, mind you – started with the Spectrum, moved through the C64, then my beloved Amiga 500. Board games were something that happened at Christmas when the relatives visited, usually involving Monopoly arguments that ended with someone storming off to make tea. The idea that bits of cardboard could compete with the worlds I was exploring on my computer seemed absolutely mental. Until my mate Dave…
Look, I’m going to be honest with you – I was never a sports game guy. Growing up with my…
Look, I need to get something off my chest right up front – I’m about to spend the next however…
Look, I need to get something off my chest right away – writing about Mario Kart 64 feels like confessing…
Look, I need to come clean about something – I’ve been obsessed with Tomb Raider since 1996, and yeah, I…
Look, I’ll be the first to admit this is probably stupid. Here I am, a 52-year-old construction foreman who didn’t…
That summer of ’92 changed everything for me. I was fourteen, all elbows and acne, standing in this dingy arcade…
My ex-wife used to think I’d completely lost it. There I was, 43 years old, sitting in my truck at…
Christmas 1997. Sarah thought she was being clever, getting me something “different” from the usual gaming suspects. I’d been banging…
You know how sometimes you stumble across something that completely changes your understanding of what’s possible? That happened to me…
