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The first game that Lewis ever played was “Horace Goes Skiing” on the ZX Spectrum. Yes, he’s that old.

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  • Wolfenstein: The New Order is far better than it ought to be

    Nazis, robots, alternative timelines – on paper, Wolfenstein: The New Order (buy on Amazon) sounds like the sort of straight-to-video B-movie nonsense you’d bypass with a tired shake of the head were you to spot it in a video shop (if such places even exist any more). Yet it manages to be, as Sir Gaulian…

  • 30 Years of Video Games – Prisoner of War (2002)

    I’m waving goodbye to my 20′s and to celebrate I’m counting down 30 games from the last 30 years.  Join me while I countdown 30 great years of game memories. Prisoner of War In the early 00’s I was a bit of a sucker for the ol’ stealth genre.  I found an inordinate and perhaps…