Feature – Lateral Thinking – Either Archive Videogames or lose them completly

A sideways look at the gaming industry
Submitted by: Sideath

NOTE: I wrote this article a few months back, the original should be hidden somewhere in Insert Credit and Gamespot.

Intro Cut Scene
A year back, I was playing the flash game Sticky Wicket on the BBC webpage celebrating the Cricket World Cup, or something. A few things occured to me at this time: (i) That Sticky Wicket was a blatent copy of the original Donkey Kong, just with better flash graphics and with cricket as a theme instead of er… Donkey Kong, (ii) that most of Sticky Wicket’s players have never played the original Donkey Kong, and (iii) that most of the players that have played it recently have done so through illegaly, through emulation – the criminals.

Review – Polarium (DS)

Format: Nintendo DS
Publisher: Nintendo
Producer: Mitchell Corperation
Genre: Puzzle
Price: £20 new, £10-15 second hand (Apr 2005), £5-£17 ebay (Apr 2005)
Origin: US
Reviewer: Sideath

Remember the first time you played Tetris – the solid clunk as the bricks slowly slotted into place – the wonderful feeling as you destroyed four lines at the same time? And because of this (and also the high score your sister got), you went back and back to it? Well, Polarium definetly duplicates it.

Report – The Politics of Electronic Entertainment

With the British general election just 8 days away, it’s seems fitting to report (briefly) on the opinions of each political party on the electronic entertainment industry – in alphabetical order, of course!