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“RATHER THAN TRYING TO DO EVERYTHING, IT’S BETTER TO DO ONE THING WELL.”

“Imagine big-budget games doing one thing obsessively well.”

Adventure on the Atari 2600 has a single large pixel for a hero. That’s rubbish. I’m not going to argue that old games were better, because they weren’t. But the simplicity of the premise? Well that’s different. Ridge Racer is literally a game about racing

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