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  • See Vice City’s Final Mission, As Imagined On A Commodore 64

    You talk about love at first sight. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City had me at its opening credit screens: the LOAD “*”,8,1, multicoloured flashing logo and rudimentary MIDI theme took me straight back to 1986, and all the days I spent parked in front of my Commodore 64. When I showed it to my brother…


  • RIP, The Man Who Got Me Into Video Games

    When I was four years old, my father took me out to a local electronics store and said we were buying a computer. OK, I thought, not really knowing why that was such a big deal. Twenty-seven years later, I now know it was one of the most significant days of my life.