A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Tag: 1990s
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The Geocity that never sleeps.
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The very first issue of Edge magazine saw a gaggle of video-game luminaries make predictions about the digital future. How did they do?
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I love old advertisements and marketing material. They in many ways embody a time and place better than anything else around; mainly because they’re specifically designed to capture and appeal to society’s psyche en masse. In the 1990’s video games were at the cutting edge of consumer trends and so are cracking little depictions of…
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At Play Expo Blackpool I met up with Simon Marston, who’s something of a Virtuality megafan. His garage is stuffed full of 199os VR kit, and he’s become an expert at keeping these fragile machines running. He brought along his two Virtuality 1000 series VR pods to the show, and he reckons that these are…
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Forget all of that internet spurred groupthink nonsense about whether Killer Instinct was actually a good game or not for a minute and you’ll see the game as a fantastic insight into the wonderful decade that was the 1990’s. At a time where the arcade was a king (about to be dethroned) and arcade conversions…
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There seems to be no game series that is more self aware of how it has evolved over the years than Sonic. Which is why it’s so hard to understand why SEGA is still unable to troubleshoot where exactly it all went wrong with the long-running mascot’s appearances. Sonic may take his steps at a…
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MTV’s Daria may be long gone, but it’s perfect representation of growing up as a teenager in the late 90’s continues to be the most accurate depiction of that time around. The music, the attitude, the fashion and the general disdain for the cool people, younger people and older people -for humanity basically- viewed through the…
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