April Edition Live Magazine - April 2014 Issue. | Page 44

One of my earliest memories is dad bringing home an Atari 2600, and playing Asteroids. Physics based control scheme! Procedural enemies that kept changing size as you shoot them! Mind blowing! DANIEL CHLEBOWCZYK DON’T EVER PAY FULL PRICE FOR GAMES AGAIN.. At Gametraders you can trade your old games & consoles on just about ANYTHING in store! Numerous, near 24-hour Goldeneye marathons which almost always descended into a furious game of ‘slaps’ and would invariably leave all participants bleary-eyed and humiliated at the hands of the one who would ALWAYS choose Oddjob. BEN POLLOCK Growing up in Hong Kong in the 80’s I had some pretty neat access to games, first system was a famicom complete with disk drive. Remember those things? Floppy disks? No? Anyone? Hours of joy. “REMEMBER WHEN...” We asked our friends at Madman for their best retro memories… Here’s what they said… SLY IP My first memory of video games was an Atari 2600. My dad managed to swindle it for free from some sales clerk at a department store after he’s purchased a ridiculously expensive VCR. It had two parts to it and had one of the first ever remote controls (it wasn’t wireless). Anyway the Atari came with the games Asteroids and Pitfall, which had super detailed artwork on the cartridges that didn’t really match up with the 8-bit graphics and music of the actual game. I just remember sitting way too close to the TV playing those games and that they were too hard to ever finish. BEN CLAY Like every other kid in 1992, my brother and I desperately wanted a Super NES. We asked our mother to bring one back from her holiday in Malaysia, where everything was significantly cheaper. Instead of a Super NES she bought us multi-game console that was better value because it came with 1001 games… 8-bit games that is. Though it was not exactly what we wanted, we had hours of family fun playing Tetris, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Super Mario Bros, Winter Games and hundreds more. My parents never had plans to buy us a Super NES so we ended up borrowing our cousin’s console once a month over a weekend. We went to Civic Video to borrow games but the popular ones like Super Mario Kart and Donkey Kong Country were always out, so we were left with the lame film adaptation and product tie-in games such as Home Alone 2 and Cool Spot. If you don’t know what Cool Spot is, it was a 7-Up mas 6