Gaming Made Us

Over the years, we've built up a vast stock of Gaming Made Mes - highly, unashamedly, gloriously subjective features about the videogames that proved, for one reason or another, formative to writers including the RPS Hivemind and associates, and developers such as Ken Levine, Erik Wolpaw and Soren Johnson. This is the complete collection.

Some spectacular reading awaits you below, on a huge array of even more spectacular games.

Click on author names to go read the various features, by the way. Not sure if that's self-evident or not.

Team RPS

• Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe; Hired Guns; Eve Online; Half-Life - by Jim Rossignol
• XCOM; Scorched Earth; Legends of Valour; Dune II: Battle for Arrakis; Gobliins 2 - by Alec Meer
• The Hobbit; Kung-Fu Master; Gauntlet; Transformers 2005 MUSH; Thief: The Dark Project - by Kieron Gillen
• Ingrid's Back!; Dungeon Master; Day of the Tentacle; Lemmings; The Longest Journey - by John Walker
• Ultima VII - by Adam Smith

• Football Manager; Hind; Unreal Tournament; Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord; Dungeons & Dragons - by Tim Stone
• Sim City 2000; Deus Ex; Pokemon - by Lewie Procter (SavyGamer)
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 - by Quintin Smith (former RPS; Paradox; Shut Up & Sit Down)

Writers

• Age of Empires II - by Brendan Caldwell (freelance writer)
• Leisure Suit Larry - by Richard Cobbett
• Colossal Cave Adventure - by Leigh Alexander (Sexy Videogameland et al)
• Head Over Heels; Wolfenstein 3D; Civilization - by Matthew Kumar (exp. magazine, GamaSutra)
• Counter-Strike - by Tom Bramwell (Eurogamer)
• Battlefield 1942 - by Brendan Caldwell (freelance writer)

• Quake - by Lewis Denby (BeefJack)
• Quest for Glory IV - by Richard Cobbett (freelance writer)
• Games Workshop - by Dan Griliopoulos (freelance writer)
• The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy - by Victoria Regan (freelance writer)
• Sim City 2000 - by Duncan Geere (Wired UK)
• Crimson Skies - by Brendan Caldwell (freelance writer)

• Descent - by James Murff (former Big Download)
• Coverdiscs; James Pond; GTA - by Will Porter (freelance writer; Project Zomboid)
• Frankie Goes To Hollywood - by Paul Dean (freelance writer; Shut Up & Sit Down)
• Carmageddon - by Andrew Smee (freelance writer)
• Frontier: Elite II - by Craig Pearson (freelance writer; ex-PC Gamer UK)

Developers

• Adventure; Castle Wolfenstein; The Legend of Zelda; Ultima Underworld - by Ken Levine (Irrational)
• Legacy of the Ancients; Seven Cities of Gold; Adventure Construction Set - by Soren Johnson (designer, Civ 4, Spore )
• Mattel Football - by Erik Wolpaw (Valve)
• Alternate Reality: The City - by Rod Humble (The Sims 3, Second Life)
• Rick Dangerous; Mario Bros. Game and Watch; Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake - by Ed Stern (Splash Damage)

• Flashback; Syndicate; Sonic The Hedgehog; Sam & Max Hit The Road - by Dan Marshall (Size 5 Games)
• Fallout; Street Fighter II, Pac-Man - by Brian Mitsoda (Ex-Obsidian, Ex-Troika; DoubleBear)
• King's Quest; The Dig; Metroid - by Annie VanderMeer Mitsoda (aka Carlson) (Ex-Obsidian; DoubleBear, Arenanet)
• Everquest - by Mitu Khandaker (The Tiniest Shark et al)

• Deus Ex - by Steve Gaynor (2k Marin, Irrational) and Rob Hale (Ninja Theory, Squidinabox); by Jean-Paul LeBreton and Kent Hudson (2K Marin); by Samuel Bass (EA) and Aubrey Hesselgren (Splash Damage); by Ed Stern (Splash Damage)