It's my birthday today so rather than blog about, say, Red Steel 2 requiring the motion plus add-on to play – brave but foolhardy, although how many people buy FPS games on the Wii anyway? – I thought I'd go down the nostalgia route. Yes, it's time for some game-related birthday memories.
For me the 80s were a good time for this, with C64 games regularly arriving on May 12th. And getting a "real" game felt even more special then considering the amount of tape-to-tape piracy that used to go on in the playground.
The 90s bought an Amiga and SNES, although the former was tarnished by coming bundled with a copy of the truly terrible Manchester United Europe. Not that I was complaining – the early 90s were a bit of a gaming golden age. Things are much better now though of course – and even if you disagree, new versions of most half-decent retro titles are readily available to download or buy for 360/PS3/DS etc – but for the sake of this blog let's pretend not. So go on then. ZX81? Manic Miner? Flashback? Sensible Soccer? Sega Saturn? - what was your greatest game-related birthday present?
