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Winter in Gaming – Day 30 // Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games

Every other year we get to witness some new advances in video game technology.  This might be in the form of a new video games console or cutting edge graphics card(s), or perhaps a new peripheral that gives us a new way to experience games such as Virtual Reality, 3D gaming, or even controller technology like motion controls, rumble packs, the analog stick, shoulder buttons…yada yada yada.

If I could time travel back to 1997 and tell that version of me about things like; PlayStation VR, the Nintendo 3DS, Steam Sales, smart phone games being better graphically than anything of that era, local multi-player becoming somewhat a rarity in place of online gaming… 

11 year old me: “Woah! No way!  I wish I could be there now!”

I’d lap it up.

Though if I was to go back to 1997 and tell that version of me that one day… Mario and Sonic will star in a series of games together, and that Sega will stop making console and go on to make a whole load of console exclusive and multi-platform titles, and start to see Nintendo as an ally and not the enemy.

11 year old me:  “AHHHH!!  Stranger Danger, get this deranged psycho away from me”

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Winter in Gaming – Day 28 // Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Across the growing number of entries into the coveted Legend of Zelda franchise.  Snow is an environment you’ll rarely find yourself inhabiting.  Ice on the other hand has a little more emphasis through it being a semi recurring dungeon theme, but traversing to these Ice dungeons is not quite the climatic shift that makes a lot of sense (but in a game of such fantasy we can let that fact slide.

An interesting conversation starter to ask any Zelda series fan is what their top 5 or so Zelda games are (don’t ask them to choose just 1 as that’s cruel and the type of thinking I’d expect from Ganon).  So following on from that case study you’ll find that you’ll get different answers when it comes to asking people if they have a particular stand out memory when it comes to snowy experiences across the games.

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Winter in Gaming – Day 14 // This month in Video Game History!

You’re better off getting a trolley and not a basket for today’s post, as you can expect a whole heap of video game name drops for you to fondly remember, or better yet feel driven to go and play.

If you’re an avid follower of video game releases and the video game market in general, you’ll both know and presumably understand that we don’t tend to see quite as many games released in December as we used to.

Most big video game publishers know how the market works.  They’ll ensure they have their big games out between late-September and November to give their titles the headstart before the holiday buying rush.  Time to land themselves a charting position to impress casual buyers plus the advantage of shifting a good chunk of stock to the hardcore gamer who wants his or her new game the day it comes out and need not rely on Christmas lists. Continue reading “Winter in Gaming – Day 14 // This month in Video Game History!”

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Winter in Gaming – Day 4 // New Super Mario Bros.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the New Super Mario Bros. franchise in the past couple of weeks.  When the original came out on the Nintendo DS in 2006 it was highly anticipated.  It had been ages since Nintendo had release a new 2D Mario game, and surely Nintendo would knock it out the park having been behind so many great 2D platform games throughout numerous different series across a variety of different systems.

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