In “videogames I haven’t thought about in years” corner, it strikes me that it took indie games approximately 30 years to reach the visual heights of the Archie/Amiga game, Top Banana.
Which would be less strange if Top Banana wasn’t an early footnote in indie game history courtesy of (latterly) Pom Pom’s Miles Visman.
Pom Pom, of course, being responsible for Mutant Storm and that – games which would have been a lot of people’s gateway back into the world of the super small team long before anyone had even considered thinking about making Braid or whatever the first indie game is this week.
Here’s the ever reliable HG 101 if you want to know more, though I disagree that “it’s just plain bad”. Personally, I prefer “difficult and before its time”. Also “looks astounding“.
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Rob
Slight aside, it’s amazing how interlinked this and Magic Pockets are in my brain. They’re both distillations of early nineties games and music culture in the UK only (I’m not sorry about this either) Magic Pockets feels incredibly insincere, terribly how do you do fellow kids, rather than plugged in to a moment.
This is probably massively unfair but that’s my noggin for you.