30 years, 1 month ago

FORWARD FORWARD PUNCH KICK

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Dave's business card announces that he is the unstoppable games animal; the jacket to his book, Arcade Combat, notes that, because he has won "countless video game confrontations", he is "the best-known games player in the country". At one computer show, mutinous inferiors spread the word that the Unstoppable Games Animal could not get past Level One of Sonic & Knuckles. "With some films and books, you get the adrenalin rush but you never get to release it," says Dave. Syndicate, a predictable scenario pitting cyborgs against the world, won the support of Games World, which noted: "The fact that the game play involves arranging drive-by shootings, killing innocent civilians and police officers with ever more deadly weapons like shotguns, Uzis, mini-guns and flame-throwers, has enraged almost all do-gooders silly enough to poke their heads into the high-intensity line of fire."

The Independent

Discover Related