Recent content by IkariGS

My Dad was the one who bought me my Mega Drive II, and we spent that Christmas holiday scribbling passwords and trying to best each other at Super Hang On, which is a really fond memory of mine. He also somehow knew the level select cheat for Sonic The Hedgehog before I understood what cheating...

I work with young people, and I'm thinking of using this as a topic for conversation during sessions at some point when I get back to volunteering. Messages about drugs aside, I've found success using games as a tool to build relationships and to facilitate critical thought in sessions (except...

Love Soul Calibur. Just hate the Dreamcast controller for fighters and have never had the money to fork out for some nice arcade controllers. I pretty much stick to Street Fighter II/IV for 2D fighters, while Tekken 2 and Dead or Alive 2 are my favourite 3D fighters. After that, I have a...

Let's see: My Dad got me both the NES/SNES when I was a little too young to engage with them properly, so those technically wouldn't count, although I did rediscover them later on. After that he got be a Mega Drive II as a Christmas gift when I was 5, which is to this day my favourite...

I always fall back on one of either two games when I'm asked this: Sonic 3 & Knuckles or Final Fantasy VIII Sonic 3 & Knuckles, despite it being overshadowed in some ways by Nintendo titles like Super Mario World, and of course by it's two predecessors, is my all time favourite...