ElectricMachman

Some of my favourites I haven’t seen mentioned:

• Dungeons of Dredmor
• Orcs Must Die 2
• Serious Sam: Classics Revolution
• Lunistice

This was a really cool read. It’s just missing one detail: is the protocol named after the delicious hazelnut spread… and if so, why?

I remember having a pirate copy of A Bug’s Life on VHS, which started with a menu. I wasn’t old enough at the time to realise it was taped from a DVD

A worse time? Home computers thrived, the arcades were packed, bedroom programming was on the rise, the Famicom was released… Other than Atari betting too big on E.T., the industry was in a healthy position.

FOMO, mainly.

These sound very similar to the problems I have with ACNH

Huh. I’m almost certain I’ve done Bannerbomb on 4.3 systems before, and in fairly recent memory too.

Bannerbomb has been around for years and has never needed a game

Kind of relieved to see I wasn’t the only one who did this!

As someone who would admit to their identity being shaped by video games: I also play the Sims a lot, which (in the eyes of your typical gamer bro) isn’t a real game

It wasn’t that bad if you like fighting the same silver enemies using the same three silver guns within the same silver environments