Playing Resident Evil 4 Remake as Someone Who Discovered the Original Late
You know what’s funny about coming to gaming late in life? I never played the original Resident Evil 4 when it mattered. 2005 was a...
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Three Decades of Falling Blocks: My Tetris Obsession Started in a Buick
That Game Boy saved my sanity during what might’ve been the longest car ride in human history. Summer of ’91, I’m crammed in the back...
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Why Crash Bandicoot Never Quite Hit the Same in the UK – A PlayStation Memory
Right, here’s something that’s been bugging me for years – everyone bangs on about Crash Bandicoot being this massive PlayStation icon, and I get it,...
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Five Video Games That Actually Made Me Popular at Parties (Who Saw That Coming?)
Look, I never thought I’d be the guy people call when they want to throw a good party. For most of my adult life, I...
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My Shelf Wars: When Digital Games Try to Go Cardboard
My game shelf tells two different stories. Left side’s got my video game collection – all neat and organized by console, special editions sitting pretty...
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Been There, Rage-Quit That: What Makes Boss Fights Mess With Our Heads
I’ve got a graveyard of controllers that died honorable deaths. Well, maybe not honorable. There’s that Genesis controller I threw hard enough to crack my...
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Dragging CRT Monitors Up Stairs and Other LAN Party War Stories
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...
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When Your Wife Thinks Gaming Is Just Expensive Nonsense – My Seven-Year Journey From Controller Catastrophe to Co-op Victory
The most terrifying boss I’ve ever faced wasn’t some eight-bit nightmare from my Amiga days or even that bastard difficult final level in Shadow of...
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That Time a Clown Bombing Got Me Hooked on European Adventure Games
Back in ’96 I was pulling shifts at Software Etc. – yeah, I know, glamorous career choice for a college dropout – when this game...
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Discovering Chrono Trigger at 42 Changed Everything I Thought I Knew About RPGs
I’ll be honest—when my daughter first mentioned Chrono Trigger back in 2011, I figured she was just throwing another retro game title at me that...
