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Soviet Reunion
Wired reports on a team of Russian university students who have opened a museum of Soviet-era arcade games. ‘It was mostly out of nostalgia that four friends at Moscow State Technical University began scouring the country to rescue these old games. So far they have located 32 of them and are doing their best to ...
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Wisdom re-applied #6
‘One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.’ André Gide on the dearth of forthcoming Nintendo Wii games.
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Raiden III – PS2 Review
One of my favourite things I’ve written for Eurogamer for ages and it goes out on a Sunday when no-one’s looking. So it goes with a game released a year ago I guess. Watching a good player do awesome things in an arcade has to be one of the best experiences videogames have to offer ...
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Fight them on the beaches
From the little that I remember of him, Mr Body was a malicious, vindictive mathematics teacher. Although it was still the 1980s it was unusual for a teacher to be allowed to chain-smoke in class and I’m sure that, by that time, hurling wooden board dusters at daydreaming pupils was wholly unacceptable school practice. I ...