Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Brett Weiss
Preface
Introduction
Michael Mendheim, Mutant League Football: The Gruesome Sports-Hybrid That Could
Petri Järvilehto, Max Payne: From the Basement to the Norse God of Noir
Mike Skupa, Bully: Jimmy Beats World
Ryuichi Nishizawa, Wonder Boy in Monster Land: Countdown to Major
Tom-Tom
Howard Scott Warshaw, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial: The Best Game Ever Made in Five Weeks
David Crane and Garry Kitchen, A Boy and His Blob: The Best Game
Ever Made in Six Weeks
Sarah Jane Avory, Fighting Force: From Streets of Rage 3D to Core Classic
Dane Bigham, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?: Explorational Not Educational
Richard Rouse III, The Suffering: The Shining in the Darkness
Rob Fulop, David Crane and James Riley, Night Trap: The Truth About Catz and Dogz
Greg Johnson, ToeJam & Earl: Sega’s Funky and Fantastic “Other” Mascots
Julia Keren-Detar and Itay Keren, Mushroom 11: Appetite for Destruction
Kan Gao, To the Moon: John’s Tale
Emeric Thoa and Audrey Leprince, Squids: The Game That Beat Those Angry Birds, for a Little While
Matt Thorson and Alec Holowka, Towerfall: From Arrows on the Ouya
to Ascending on the PlayStation 4 and Beyond
Eric Holmes, Hulk Ultimate Destruction: The Big Green Monster That
Could, and Did
Jamie Fristrom, Spider-Man 2: Great Power = Great Fun
Howard Scott Warshaw, Yars’ Revenge: From Star Castle Port to Game-Changing Shooter
Dan Geisler and Randy Breen, Road Rash: The Game That Kicked
Hang-On and Akira, in the Face
Mike Posehn and Richard Robbins, Desert Strike: From Killer Choplifter Clone to Classic
Garry Kitchen, Bart vs. the Space Mutants: The First and Best Simpsons Game Ever
Jane Jensen, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers: Voodoo Chile
Ron Gilbert, David Fox and Gary Winnick, Maniac Mansion: Point-and-Click’s Original SCUMM-Bags
Clayton Kauzlaric, Voodoo Vince: Pain for Pleasure
Warren Spector, Deus Ex: From Troublemaking Shooter to Genre-Defining Conspiracy Theory
Jon Van Caneghem, King’s Bounty: Putting the “Heroes” into “Might
and Magic”
Garry Kitchen, Super Battletank: Even Better Than the Real Thing
Taichi Ishizuka, The Firemen: Through the Fire and Flames
Dave Wishnowski, Pro Wrestling X: A Decade-Long Dream in Development
Mark Turmell, WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game: Scotch and
Treadmills
John Tobias, Mortal Kombat: Enter the Fatality
Michael Brook, NHLPA ’93: Fighting for Fun Before “If it’s in the game,
it’s in the game”
Craig Broadbooks, NHL FaceOff: A Christmas Story
Mark Turmell, NBA Jam: The Birth of Boomshakalaka
David A. Palmer, Doom: The Little Jaguar That Could
Ken St. Andre and Brian Fargo, Wasteland: Fallout’s Unlikely Papa
Conclusion
Index