I’ll be honest – when the Nintendo 64 launched in 1996, I wasn’t exactly queuing up at Dixons to get one. I was twenty-one, had my beloved Amiga 1200 humming away quite nicely thank you very much, and thought consoles were still a bit beneath proper computer gaming. What an absolute muppet I was. The N64 didn’t just change gaming – it basically rewrote the entire rulebook whilst I was off playing yet another session…
Right, so I need to come clean about something that might make me sound like a proper gaming heretic –…
Man, I can still remember the exact moment Metroid clicked for me, and it wasn’t even on a Sega system…
My introduction to sports gaming was a complete accident, really. It was 1985 and I’d saved up my pocket money…