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Memory Leak: Gorf
At 35, I wasn’t around for the rise of the video arcade, but I was certainly around for its heyday. This included the beginning of the end of the basic but fantastically bright vector display screens of Asteroids and Battlezone giving way to the raster displays of Pac-Man and Dig-Dug.^ As a little kid, before…
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Pac-Man 256 – Games of 2015
Not that I needed much selling beyond the fact that Crossy Road developer, Hipster Whale, was working on a Pac-Man game, but Pac-Man getting chased by a kill screen the entire time is a nice bonus. The zeitgeist in my office around the release of this game was intense. One minute we’re all figuring out…
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Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number – Games of 2015
Running into a building with guns blazing and a mask on one second, and the next second I’m cowered around a corner hoping no one knows I’m in the room. My head is spinning. I thought I was the aggressor, so why do I feel like the victim all of a sudden? Hotline Miami 2:…
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Downwell – Games of 2015
I should apologize to Downwell, as I had the most convoluted excuse for not playing it when it came out. Long story short, its core mechanic was similar to a game my friends and I had started working on right before it came out. The joke’s on me though, not only did I waste time not…