Sonic beats Mario as favourite UK games character
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
Posted in Mario, video games, Sonic, Sega, old, Nintendo on
Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog has beaten Nintendo’s Mario in a poll held at the London Games Festival to win the title of Britain’s favourite video game character.
However it was a really close run thing, with Sonic getting 24 per cent while Mario was very close behind on 21 per cent.
1. Sonic the Hedgehog (24%)
2. Super Mario (21%)
3. Lara Croft (Tomb Raider) (16%)
4. Donkey Kong (11%)
5. Pac Man (10%)
6. Link (The Legend of Zelda) (5%)
7. Max Payne (4%)
8. Pikachu (Pokemon) (3%)
9. Niko Belic (Grand Theft Auto IV) (2%)
10. Blanka (Street Fighter) (1%)
As a kid in the late 80’s, early 90’s it was common for me and some of my school mates to discuss the merits of Sonic and Mario, but really we were talking about Sega VS Nintendo, Master System VS NES, Megadrive VS SNES.
Then it was always Sega that won out because it was always the ‘cool’ and ‘hip’ machine, while Nintendo, while stronger both in the quality of games and hardware, was a little bit geeky. Sega was always a little more ’street’ than Nintendo.
It’s the same with Sonic and Mario - Sonic was just cooler. He was blue, spiky and could turn into a destructive wrecking ball by spinning.
While Mario was a fat, italian plumber with a slightly camp moustache and a crush on a girl named Daisy. He probably could take Sonic in a fight (but only after eating mushrooms).
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Too old for gaming?
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
Posted in Sega, Playstation, old, World of Warcraft, Gaming, Nintendo, Sony on
Am I too old for gaming? This is a question I’m asking myself now.
First of all - a brief view of my gaming history
I used to be really really into my video games. My first memory was of a Sinclair Spectrum, playing games like Chaos and trying to create text-based games with BASIC programming language. I enjoyed it, but very quickly the Spectrum became out of date and it became the consoles which I loved to use.
I had the original NES - I also had the original FAMICOM, which I had brought back from Thailand to play with. Oh the days of chunky cartridges. Like many others of my age it was all about Mario - One, two and three - you don’t make them like this anymore. When I a kid there was also the arguments between whether Sega or Nintendo was the best console to play with. I was always a Nintendo boy but I remember the schoolyard arguments about whether Mario or Sonic was better.
Then the days of the SNES. Brilliant machine that was. Streetfighter 2 - I remember days and weeks trying to master the game but I could never work out how to do ‘dragon punches’ and ‘fireballs’ properly and so I figured then that the fighting game wasn’t my thing.
The Playstation soon came to dominate my game playing. Resident Evil 2 was great, but the one game I remember was Final Fantasy 7 - I spent my GCSE exam week playing it and although it probably affected my grades I didn’t care - I finished it and still have fond memories of the experience.
Then after the Playstation 2 which was also a time of very hard game playing it kinda stopped. I started to use my PC for games -Baldurs Gate 2 was a particular favourite but then after that university came and I stopped feeling the need to play -maybe because drink, women and football became more interesting.
Now
The most recent games were the online role playing ones like World of Warcraft. Now this is an absolutely brilliant game and I loved being caught up with the world that existed for me inside of it.
However I have no time for them any more. Role playing games and WOW just dominate far too much of your time. To get a really good session you need to have a couple of hours playing, and if you’re not careful a whole night can be gone and I can still be playing.
Can’t do this anymore. Responsibilities and stuff I have to do and now its just not in my mind anymore to play these games.
It’s sad … but it looks like I’m growing up!
Shame, my level 50 warrior is probably still out there frozen in time and waiting for me to play him again earning experience and using his double headed axe.
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