MGM – I’m a Rock (Band) Star

MGM – I’m a Rock (Band) Star

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This Memorable Gaming Moment article was written by Stu. It was at Eurogamer in 2009 where I fulfilled a life-long (read: minutes-long) ambition to perform music on stage in front of an audience of thousands (read: tens, if that). The Beatles Rock Band was the medium, a cavern-like hall the venue, "Here Comes the Sun" the tune. Notable was the…
MGM – Typing in names for hours on end

MGM – Typing in names for hours on end

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Sensible World Of Soccer on the Amiga provided me with hours of entertainment. Most of them not actually playing the game, but updating the rosters of the various football clubs, and editing the fictional teams with themes of my own choosing. A lot of time was also spent brainlessly clicking the fire button through the Career mode, "managing" an amazing…
MGM – I never played Shenmue

MGM – I never played Shenmue

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It's true! I didn't! Well, I did for a little while, but my brother started just after me and played it more than I had the inclination to, so I watched him play through it. In many ways it was more enjoyable to be honest, as I wasn't getting on with the controls. It was the first kind of game…
MGM – Mew? Two please

MGM – Mew? Two please

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Back in the glorious days of the original black and white (or black and horrible shade of yellow/green, to be more accurate) Gameboy, I owned a game called Pokémon Blue. You may have heard of it. My brother had Pokémon Red and a Gameboy of his own, and while we very rarely battled, we quite often traded Pokémon in an…

Memorable Gaming Moments

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Find the rest with this tag: MGM We all have them, surely. Moments in gaming that transcend simply playing a game, completing it and moving on. Some memories stick with you for a long time. Indeed, some of my personal memories are from as long as 20 years ago. Also, for one of the first times, it won't just be…

Delving into the memory banks

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If you read the forum at all, you may notice I'm trying to drum up some support for this idea I had for a nice little feature on here. Called Memorable Gaming Moments (the post tag will be "MGM" so you can easily find all the articles in the feature), it is basically what it sounds like: People write about…