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How a modest team of Dubliners elevated the art of game physics

SEGA’S HANDHELD HARDWARE MAY NOT HAVE HIT THE HEIGHTS THE MEGA DRIVE DID, BUT IT OFFERED PLENTY OF FUN ON THE GO FOR PLAYERS IN THE EARLY NINETIES. WE TAKE A LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE SYSTEM’S BEST EXCUSES TO BURN THROUGH A PACK OF BATTERIES

SHUHEI YOSHIDA AND KENJI KAIDO SHED LIGHT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF APE ESCAPE, THE FIRST PLAYSTATION GAME TO MAKE FULL USE OF THE DUALSHOCK’S ANALOGUE CONTROLS. THIS INFLUENTIAL 1999 GAME WOULD SPAWN NUMEROUS SEQUELS, SPIN-OFFS AND CAMEOS, MOST RECENTLY REAPPEARING IN SONY’S 2024 HIT ASTRO BOT

AS NOTABLE FOR ITS GENRE-PEFINING PESIGN AS ITS GROUNPOREAKING TECH, DOOM REPEFINED THE FPS AND DEGAN AN EPIC FRANCHISE, DOOMGUYS JOHN ROMERO, JONATHAN MOSES, ROBERT DUFFY AND JASON O'CONNELL EXPLAIN HOW IP'S HELL-RAISING SERIES EVOLVED

Take on a demon army in this slice of retro side-scroller action

Take on a demon army in this slice of retro side-scroller action