A Gaming Life, In Lovingly Crafted Pictures

So, there’s a new issue of Way Of The Rodent out, where-in the charmingly ramshackle UK online mag wanders through a number of random PS3 launch-related topics. But also in there is ‘This Gaming Life’, by Mr. Nath - which I like.
In this NGJ-y picture/caption piece, the protagonist wanders through pieces of game hardware and his recollections of what happened when he owned them, from the BBC Micro (”Only 5 at the time, my memories of BBC gaming are more swirling impressions than hard and fast recollections - the suicidal thrill of attacking a Police Station in Elite, the lurid pinks and blues of Citadel and the hypnotic rhythm of Repton’s head-bobbing”) to the Sega Master System (”After it had mesmerised me in the arcade, in-house R-Type felt like a proud and rare beast held captive, and discovering areas we’d never had the combination of money and skill to […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (simonc) and software by Elliott Back