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Feature: The dark ages
Raised By Screens is probably the closest I’ll ever get to a memoir – glancing back at the games I played as a child in the order in which I remember playing them, and focusing on how I remember them rather than what they truly were. There will be errors and there will be interpretations that are simply wrong, because that’s how memory works. Time…
Feature: My heroes
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Feature: Enemy mine
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Feature: United in a tiny, harmless act of rebellion
Raised By Screens is probably the closest I’ll ever get to a memoir – glancing back at the games I played as a child in the order in which I remember playing them, and focusing on how I remember them rather than what they truly were. There will be errors and there will be interpretations that are simply wrong, because that’s how memory works. Note…
Feature: Celebrating Setting
Note - this series has primarily been for RPS Supporter Program members-only, which is why you probably can't find most of the rest of 'em, but I unlock the occasional chapter for everyone (along with many of our other initially subs-only features). Raised By Screens is probably the closest I’ll ever get to a memoir – glancing back at the games I played as a…
Feature: Adventure games' imperial phase
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Feature: And Sonic 2 too
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Feature: Winners don't use DOS
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Feature: He who controls a 486 controls The Spice
Raised By Screens is probably the closest I’ll ever get to a memoir – glancing back at the games I played as a child in the order in which I remember playing them, and focusing on how I remember them rather than what they truly were. There will be errors and there will be interpretations that are simply wrong, because that’s how memory works. The…
Feature: The Sound Of Monkey Island
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Feature: Tanks for the memories
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Feature: BBC BASIC
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Feature: Isolation in green
This article was originally published as part of, and thanks to, the RPS Supporter program. Raised By Screens is probably the closest I’ll ever get to a memoir – glancing back at the games I played as a child in the order in which I remember playing them, and focusing on how I remember them rather than what they truly were. There will be errors…
Feature: Revenge of the Spectrum
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Feature: Death & The Reptile
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Feature: The first game
I've written before about the games that 'made' me, but really that refers to a specific type of touchstone, the sort of game which informs the games I most enjoy today. There were many others whose formative effects are perhaps less certain, but at the time they seemed boundlessly important to me. They raised me. They helped fire a young imagination into life. They carried…
