The memoir of a true games legend.
Julian “Jaz” Rignall has done it all. Video game champion. Magazine editor. Game producer. TV commentator. Website launch editor. Video game research analyst. During a career which began in the ’80s and continues to this very day, Rignall has witnessed the evolution of an entire industry, and he’s now written it all down in a massive 420-page book, The Games of a Lifetime, published by Bitmap Books.
In many ways, you could say I’m the wrong person to review such a project, as I make no secret of the fact that I’m a card-carrying Rignall fanboy. It’s no exaggeration to claim that, had I not been exposed to his sterling work at such a tender age, I wouldn’t be doing what I do today; magazines like Mean Machines, MegaTech and CVG are the reason I wanted to write about video games, and my first website, The Mean Machines Archive (RIP), was the stepping stone to me meeting my colleagues and Hookshot Media co-owners Darren Calvert and Ant Dickens. Without that, my life would look almost unrecognisable today, so it’s fair to say I owe a massive debt to Rignall and the teams that worked underneath him.
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The memoir of a true games legend.
Julian “Jaz” Rignall has done it all. Video game champion. Magazine editor. Game producer. TV commentator. Website launch editor. Video game research analyst. During a career which began in the ’80s and continues to this very day, Rignall has witnessed the evolution of an entire industry, and he’s now written it all down in a massive 420-page book, The Games of a Lifetime, published by Bitmap Books.
In many ways, you could say I’m the wrong person to review such a project, as I make no secret of the fact that I’m a card-carrying Rignall fanboy. It’s no exaggeration to claim that, had I not been exposed to his sterling work at such a tender age, I wouldn’t be doing what I do today; magazines like Mean Machines, MegaTech and CVG are the reason I wanted to write about video games, and my first website, The Mean Machines Archive (RIP), was the stepping stone to me meeting my colleagues and Hookshot Media co-owners Darren Calvert and Ant Dickens. Without that, my life would look almost unrecognisable today, so it’s fair to say I owe a massive debt to Rignall and the teams that worked underneath him.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
