For the fourth and final episode of the third arc of Pause:Continue, Peter Willington speaks with freelance writer Mark Brown to talk about Broken Sword: Shadow Of The Templars. Mark talks about early memories of gaming on the Game Boy and PlayStation, and why the first Broken Sword is his favourite game from childhood. Mark …
In episode 3 of Peter Willington’s continued search for the games we most fondly remember growing up, he’s joined by Brendan Caldwell to talk demos. Remarking on just how important these trial versions of full games were to him in his youth, Brendan reveals how they inadvertently got him into writing, why he was initially …
Continuing the third Arc of Pause:Continue, Peter Willington is joined by Kris Lipscombe from TheSixthAxis to talk Sonic The Hedgehog on the Master System. They discuss the differences between 8-bit Sonic and his bigger brother on the Mega Drive, how the game was seen as a dumbed down port where in reality it was a …
Do the games we played as children affect us as we became older? Are we informed by the classics from our youth or are we held back by them? Do our tastes ever change that dramatically? Do we still love the games we played for hours on end before we grew up into the people …
Released in August of 2011, Trauma is ostensibly a point and click adventure, albeit one that attempts to present feeling and tone over a complex series of puzzles and conversations. In this month’s Pause:Continue, Peter Willington explores the title and interviews its creator Krystian Majewski. Krystian speaks to InRetroSpect about the evolution of the …
Adventure games are all the same aren’t they? “Of course not!” shouts Peter Willington in this second episode of P:C Arc 2, examining some of the games in the genre that dare to stand out, that try something new within the rigidly traditional format of pointing and clicking. Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is this …