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Eitan Glinert: Fire Hose Games
Madness was one of the best games ever created, and is STILL fun today more than two decades later. I used to play on the Amiga 2000 with my older sister; she preferred the mouse, while I preferred the obviously superior joystick. Lemmings was a fantastic time sink; some of...
Chris Parsons – Muzzy Lane Software
Incredibly deep content: a mix of turn-based squad combat, RPG, and resource management. You carefully nurtured and grew your squad and it really hurt when some of your favorites died horribly. TFTD was the sequel to the original. It added multiple levels for the underwater battle...
If you were stuck in a waiting room for hours and had to choose one game to play which one would it be?
For me it would be puzzle games. For some reason I just can’t enjoy games like Tetris and Super Puzzle Fighter at home on my 51 inch HDTV. However, when I am waiting for someone or something to get done I love to break out a good puzzle game and...
John Blain: Dell
Dhalsim, after winning a fight: “Now you’ve realized the inner mysteries of Yoga!” – I spent enough money on this game in the arcade to put a down payment on a small house. Nothing was more satisfying than having a bunch of people line up to put their quarters down...
Harry Miller : Devolver Digital
I didn’t realize that I liked it that much and don't understand how my first time playing got so out of hand. I starting the game for the first time at around 5pm one day, when I finally looked up and it was 8am. Where did the time...
Martin Brouard: Frima Studio
Ultima IV was a revolution for me because it had such an epic scope for an RPG at the time. I remember spending a whole summer building up my party and travelling through Britannia’s many cities and dungeons to attain perfection in all 8 virtues. The music was just so...
Kevin Saffel: Heatwave Interactive
Fantastic RPG with a great party system. In fact I love the entire Ultima series, including Ultima...
The Interview: Chris Tremmel
The process has become more complicated, usually requiring a large number of people to make something significant. The money involved in some of the triple A games is staggering with some budgets now reaching 100 million dollars. That naturally changes everything in terms of peoples priorities, and agendas. Sometimes for...
Jonathan Sabella: Ninth Dimension Studios
I just can't get enough of the fast paced hockey action from the classic NES system, I still love the dynamic of winning fights giving your team an advantage and worked hard to bring influences from classic games like Blades of Steel and Ice Hockey to my design work on...
Alex Kutsenok: Dreamspike Studios
I got into Everquest as a sophomore in high school. It was my first MMORPG, and the level of immersion was unlike anything I had ever experienced. I alsoappreciated that there was a real consequence to death. It meant you lost a ton of experience and had to track across...
Which genre had a bigger impact to PC gaming RTS or FPS games?
When I went to my first LAN party here in Florida it was the guys from Red-Eye that showed me how to use mouse look in order to properly use the hook in Lithium Quake 2. Now don’t get me wrong, StarCraft, Warcraft, Total Annihilation were also a big part...
Keith Pichelman: Concrete Software
The game had a ton of levels!!! It seemed like you could play it forever… the later levels really got you thinking outside the box which could get so frustrating until you finally figured it out… but so satisfying when you did! It was also one of the first...
Greg Wohlwend: Mikengreg
My brother and I were obsessed with this game. It came on a dozen or so 3.5" hard disks (high tech back then) and included a semi-complete faux vellum map. Most of the game took place in either a huge city or a huge desert with tons of little secrets...
Nicolai Dutka: Archon Games
The original Final Fantasy was the very first role-playing game I had ever played. I was instantly hooked into the genre and have been a die-hard RPG fan ever...
Fredrik Liljegren: Antic Entertainment
It was the first real tennis game (not just paddles and a moving blob!), many many 5 set matches that took hours was played on this game with my friends, and it was the first game that made think about making one...
Anthony Castoro & Tim Schubert: Heatwave Interactive
I love games that have a lot of replay value and reward you for exploring. Starflight was all about...
Jay Stuckwisch:Twisted Pixel Games
I loved that you were Military Vs. Aliens, pretty awesome! The mix up of game play was a pretty sweet effect too. I would have to say that game is what evolved my love for video games and made me want to be a part of this industry....
In the end is a monthly subscription fee bad for gamers?
Now when a new game with a monthly subscription came out I found a new dilemma. I liked the new game, but I still loved EQ and had not only spent a lot of time in it, but money as well. I was torn between trying something new, giving up...
Alexis Hebert – Terminal Reality
Halo CE will always be my favorite because it was the first game I was better at than my natural born enemy, my little brother. Not to mention any game who’s music was written by the same man who wrote the Flinstone’s vitamin jingle is O.K. in my...
Tim Fields – Certain Affinity
I love the classic RPGs. Of these, the Bard's Tale always had a special spot in my heart. I still remember meeting Hawkslayer through the ages, and remember how excited I was years later when I met Joe Ybarra, whom the "YMCA" [Ybarra's Mystical Coat of Arms] spell was...
Smashing Ideas – Gamer Profile
This was one of the first games I played where you were given the freedom to experiment with your surroundings and think 'outside of the box'. These actions often lead to humorous outcomes and commentary from the game's characters, and LucasArts ability to poke fun at themselves never got old....
Andy O’Neil – Bluepoint Games
Hard to play and harder to master, Robotron is one of the purest shooters ever made. No fluff in the design and relentless action that still holds up today, you can't beat Robotron for that fast arcade adrenaline...
Aaron hunter – Playtechtonics LLC
It was so amazing. It had a great storyline while not sacrificing open-ended game-play, as well as action elements and character-building role-playing as well. The overall presentation was polished, and there were even nice touches of humor and surprising...
Luke Burtis – Casual Games Association
Insult: “You fight like a dairy farmer.” Comeback: “How appropriate. You fight like a cow.” How could one NOT like this...
LanSlide PC – Free Gaming Computer Help
At first, it might seem like helping people build their own computers or educating them about buying computers so they avoid buying parts they don't really need would be detrimental to a gaming computer company. However, our stance is that a more educated public is a good thing for PC...
Anila Andrade – 99 Games Online
I’m a puzzle freak and tend to like any game that belongs to this genre. It’s skill based and also involves an element of strategy in it. The art is incredible and the game has kept me hooked on for hours! We recently released a new title for the iPhone...
Jeff Evans – Antic Entertainment
I love the pure simplicity of Galaga. It takes you right back to roots of gaming with its ruthless nature. Your goal: Make it on the highscore table by any means necessary and all you need to worry about is moving left and right and pressing the fire button. I’m...
Joe Pinney – Telltale Games
The pure essence of fantasy TBS, best random map generator EVER so you could play into insane infinity. These days I play Battle for Wesnoth to scratch that itch, just wish it had those cool artifact...
