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Peter Tieryas
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Peter Tieryas is the author of Mecha Samurai Empire & Cyber Shogun Revolution (Penguin RH). He's written for Kotaku, IGN, & Verge. He was an artist at Sony Pictures & Technical Writer for LucasArts.

Do they ever give any reason as to why there are students attending this school? Does it give you an option to forget about your crush at the beginning of the game and just nope right out of there? Or is this more ethereal? Read more

*looks up at the first picture*

The puzzles in this game have some of the most esoteric answers I’ve ever seen. Trying to figure them out, while also trying to avoid that piece of shit Janitor make this game supremely unfun to play. Read more

Why are you articles always so good? This was a great read! Read more

It’s amazing how music is often a disregarded or neglected element in video games. It’s vital to telling a story or, in the case of games, can invoke an emotional connection to things that we would normally have a difficult time empathizing with.
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City Ruins - Shade >>>>. It’s so good and such a welcome surprise after hearing the Rays of Light theme for so long. (warning: music spoilers for Route C)

Probably better than my first non-Mario/Duck Hunt/Gyromite game I got. Weeks after the Christmas when I got my NES, I had my birthday and had some birthday money. This was early ‘87 so there were far fewer options out there (no Metroid, Zelda, or Kid Icarus in the US yet). I could have picked up Kung Fu or Excitebike, Read more

First video game would have been back in 1978 when my dad brought home Pong. I remember sitting around playing it with my cousins and even my grandfather. Later I was more of a computer guy and missed most of the consoles after the Atari 2600. My mother stayed up all night Christmas Eve playing Pac Man. Played PS1 Read more

My first video game was Super Mario Kart for Snes. Got it for Christmas, then drove 4 hours to the grandparents house for family Christmas really upset I didn’t have a chance to really play it. My aunt gave me a GameBoy with Tetris and my grandparents a hamster. Not sure why that Christmas turned out so good but it Read more

My first video game was alex kid (and a couple other games like shinobi) on the master system 2...

“I still don’t know what happened to all my old games from long ago” Read more