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“Takes all kinds, Snake” – Super Smash Bros. Brawl

In games, as with many other media with any kind of sequel or follow-up, a sequel’s initial commercial performance is generally a reflection of its predecessor as much…

“I’ll never forget that face” – Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Playing through the UK’s chart-topping games of the PlayStation era cemented a link in my mind between two of the biggest of them. Metal Gear Solid and Final…

“Opening the Ark” – Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures

[It’s guest post time again! This one is written by Martin F, who has previously written here about Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri and Blue Sphere among others] After…

“The golden twilight of Western civilization” – Grand Theft Auto IV

On release, Grand Theft Auto IV sold nearly a million copies in the UK in five days, making it the fastest-selling game here ever. That was no surprise….

“Another Body Test” – Wii Fit

The Wii and Wii Sports were a magic trick. Waving a remote around and using a “sensor bar” which could be replaced by two candles, you could point…

“Oh yeah! Mario number one!” – Mario Kart Wii

In the same way as it was a struggle to get to the historic charts this blog is built on, getting to any kind of accurate historic UK…

“A hall of records or numbers or spaces still undone” – Gran Turismo 5: Prologue

There was a whole decade across the ‘90s and ‘00s in which console gaming in the UK, at least in terms of a machine to connect to your…

“Take me down” – Burnout Paradise

One thing that the Burnout series’s introductory radio station Crash FM provides is plenty of soundbites to neatly sum up its games. Burnout Revenge’s “it’s a car-crash-car world”…