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“We, the game creators, were increasingly expected to listen to the sales team”. As the world of video games has expanded, we’ve seen changes in the way AAA games are conceptualised, designed, developed, marketed and sold—and one of the industry’s most famous game designers thinks we’ve got things back-to-front. Speaking to Time Extension in a…
“We have unlocked a secret sound effect no one else has heard before”. Super Mario 64 is a solid-gold classic, and for that reason, fans have spent the past few decades digging into the game to find as many secrets as possible. Amazingly, despite the time that has passed since it launched on the N64,…
Wolf Team’s Final Zone is well worth a look. Shopping for Japanese import games was a little more challenging in the ’90s. We didn’t have the internet then, so all you had to base your purchasing decision on was the game’s cover and, if you were really lucky, a small review in a recent issue…
John Mulaney will play Trip Hawkins. Amazon MGM’s upcoming movie on the life of NFL legend John Madden will also cover the creation of the best-selling series of Madden video games. Directed by David O. Russell—who is a somewhat troubling figure in Hollywood these days—the movie stars Nicolas Cage as John Madden, the American professional…
Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 announced for Japan. City Connection has announced it will be bringing out two new arcade collections in Japan later this year containing 16 classics from the legendary Japanese arcade company Toaplan (thanks Famitsu!). Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol. 1 and Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol. 2 will be released…
No dice required. Capcom’s Dungeons & Dragons Collection was one of the final Sega Saturn releases in Japan, and brings together the company’s two side-scrolling D&D fighters, Tower of Doom (1994) and Shadow Over Mystara (1996). While both games were released in arcades in the West and have since been reissued on new platforms, the…
Includes new MIDI audio fixes and options, among other features. Origin System’s 1992 release Ultima VII is frequently cited online as one of the best RPGs of all time. So it’s understandable that there is a large contingent of players who might still want to revisit it in the modern day. However, as the game…
When The Super Mario Bros. Movie came out in 2023, it was an instant hit, much to the pleasure of both fans and Nintendo. A Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel was expected, but apart from confirming its existence, Nintendo and animation studio Illumination have been notably silent. Now, it seems, we have a potential title…
But he’s a big fan of Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga. Without Tomohiro Nishikado, there would be no ‘shmup’. When he created the legendary Space Invaders in 1978, he effectively birthed an entire genre, and every 2D shooter created since owes a debt to that single-screen smash-hit. However, in an interview with Time Extension, Nishikado reveals…
“Younger people who want to make games should play really old games”. One of the formative figures of video games is Tomohiro Nishikado. Known for creating the arcade game smash hit Space Invaders, I caught up with him about his long and storied career. “I was born in Osaka, in a place called Kishiwada, and…