tribute thursday
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Remembering Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn
When my former housemate packed up his things and departed to enjoy another phase in his life, he lazily, but quite happily, bequeathed his Logitech Attack 3 to me. It’s been sitting in my living room for a good while, and for a while I’ve started at it pondering its best usage.
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Remembering Spycraft: The Great Game
Picture this: you’re sitting by the family Christmas tree with your older brother, father and mother. You’ve got a shared sack. You go diving through and you find some video games. And then one of those video games happens to be Spycraft: The Great Game.
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Remembering Civilization 2
If it wasn’t for his wife getting a Fullbright teaching scholarship, Civilization 2 — or Civilization 2000, as it was called internally — may never have seen the light of day. But that’s what happened to Brian Reynolds, lead designer on the iconic game, who relocated from the United States to London to support his…
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Heaven & Earth: The Bob Ross Of Video Games
The amount of people who tuned into the 24/7 Bob Ross marathon on Twitch was fascinating, but perhaps not quite as much as the realisation that soon followed. Bob Ross, as it turns out, is wonderfully compatible with the intense, volatile world of gaming, as Twitch Creative quickly gathered a legion of followers tuning in…