Terrence Johnson: Envizions
He collects coins!
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Company Representatives
Representatives of gaming companies, publishes, developers, indie, hardware and software. All encompassing for the world of video games.
Theodore Bergquist: Gamersgate
The depth of the game, the many endings, the spell creation system. Back then this was so complex and immersive and I spend many hours with that game as my best friend.
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Olivier Vermeille: Zallag
It was about politics, religion, betrayal, love, murder, friendship…all mixed perfectly with a near-perfect gameplay experience. I won’t go into detail about the mechanics but let’s just say that it was extremely motivating to level up your characters.
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Daxon Flynn: BattleGoat Studios
A quick thinking strategy game that uses a trackball to build walls with tetris like pieces to defend your castle and fight enemies with your cannons. An arcade game that I actually beat with one quarter from start to finish.
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Chris Gerspacher: Kerberos Productions
It was a hard pick, but I mentally went through all my NES carts and I have to pick Ninja Gaiden. Bouncing from wall to wall, ninja star throwin’, minion dodgin’, hack and slash boss battlin’ – the original twitch gamer experience for me, personally.
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Darren Grant: Kerberos Productions
The original prototypical city builder game, before the PC genre was really branded. No other city builder I know of has ever made the interplay of economics this tactile. Hours of zen tweaking and balancing rewarded with a flourishing ant farm community of little settlers going about their tiny tasks!
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Henri Haimakainen: Colossal Order
It was something really cool compared to the single player games of the time. It also presented a different take on the multiplayer game mode since many games were about players taking turns to play the game rather than working together towards a common goal.
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Lisa Haasbroek: Legacy Interactive
Remember in the original NES Metroid, when Samus took off her helmet and it turned out she was woman? It was totally jaw dropping at the time, since there were so few women game heroes in 1986, and I think it was one of the big moments that drew me into gaming as a kid. It’s been totally awesome to watch the gaming industry develop, and to see so many more women gaming these days (we make up more than half of all gamers now!)
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Simone Bevilacqua: BOH
I have no favorite game because there are so many I love that it’s just impossible to choose. Anyway, I’m mostly into C64 and Amiga games (but, of course, I’ve also seen/played many games on many other systems).
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Carlos Gustavo: Universo Virtual
Nonlinear, immense, immersive and with a great character system.
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Mariina Hallikainen: Colossal Order
I used to play Theme Park when I was a teenager. It was insanely addicting and fun! I played it for hours at a time and it must have made my mom worry a bit. I guess it didn’t come as a surprise that I made a profession out of games later on.
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Chris Stewart: Kerberos Productions
I remember Ultima 3 (my entry to theseries) calling to me constantly, with its vast, dangerous world to explore. Then explore again, just in case I missed digging something up on an island somewhere. I really did like digging things up. My interest in Minecraft suddenly makes a lot more sense…
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Lorenzo Pasini: Aurea Section
Some italian ones that are hard to be properly translated in english 🙂
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Johan Andersson: Paradox Interactive
It was on a game compilation I got with my first computer (c64), and I just loved the “speech” whenever you started a new game. “STAY AWHILE…. STAY FOREVER!”
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Valerie Wicks: Legacy Interactive
“Every moment is fun and every moment I care no matter how many times I play it. I’ve always loved Chrono Trigger for that- for being so good to me.”
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Daniel Haffner: Highbrow Games
The bionic arm made you feel like a badass all the way through the game, and allowed you to do some really cool things once you got some skill. All the music maintained the consistent military theme while being catchy and inspiring – every once in a while I’ll go download and listen to some remixes of the level 1 theme.
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