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WHAT WE REMEMBER

You may have asked yourself, “Where does it all start for someone who writes about games?” The answer is more mundane than you might suspect – there are no arcane rituals, pacts with the gaming gods or eerie portraits consigned to our attics. At least, not that we’d tell you about. Here are the games that started it all for each of us.

IAN DEAN

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My first PlayStation game was also my first experience of the highs and lows of day-one launch games. My sister’s friend came over with her PS1 and we sat down to play Battle Arena Toshinden. Today it’s not looked on as a great fighter, and even in 1995 on a PS1 it was

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