formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
Set during Ecuador’s 2002 World Cup qualifying campaign, this fascinating, semi-autobiographical game gives you control of the life of a soccer-mad eight-year-old. Source: Despelote review – a beautiful, utterly transportive game of football fandom | Games | The Guardian
Interview‘It was just the perfect game’: Henk Rogers on buying Tetris and foiling the KGBTom ReganThe man who brought Tetris to the west reveals what the movie of his life got right and wrong, how he influenced Nintendo, and why … Continued
A second-hand Zelda cartridge. A cryptic forum thread. A generation of frightened children. This is the story of Ben Drowned – the internet’s most infamous video game ghost. Source: Ghost in the machine? How a ‘haunted’ N64 video game cartridge … Continued
It was the early 1990s and every teenager in the world knew about Street Fighter II. Originally released in the arcades and then on the SNES and Mega Drive consoles, the game featured a cast of weird, semi-magical combatants with … Continued
Their tech may have been primitive, but for 80s schoolchildren of a certain kind they had a glamour to equal any modern iPhone. Source: Space Invaders on your wrist: the glory years of Casio video game watches | Games | … Continued
The Lake District after the 1957 Windscale nuclear disaster is a great setting for a game – and gorgeously rendered. That doesn’t mean I want to endlessly keep traversing it. Source: Atomfall might have been an apocalyptic classic if it … Continued