Matt’s Desert Island Disks

The games that Matt simply couldn’t live without

01 Space Invaders (ARCADE)

I’d played This was the first videogame audiovisual that was a fully formed, high-quality, coin drop gameplay experience from in 1979 in to game over. I first played it while an arcade in Ann Arbor, Michigan, not working working on, or actually, while on, my BSE in computer engineering.

02 Defender

(ARCADE) when I first played this with my wife, in Mt it was on test at Mother’s Pinball first game Prospect, Illinois, while at my industry job at GDI.

03 Centipede

(ARCADE)

1982. After I played this way too much in my cube and a long session I went back to code found I could not read my source saw only on the IBM PC screen. My eyes channels for the gaps between the text as screen… centipedes to rain down the

04 Robotron: 2084 (ARCADE) For the ambidextrous with excellent hand/eye co-ordination, you can’t find a better game. I first played it in 1982 and immediately it became my favourite game, supplanting Defender.

05 Xybots

(ARCADE) Like Centipede, this is another great game by Ed Logg, and the first action/role-playing game I recall playing and enjoying.

06 Super Bomberman

(SNES) A great simultaneous-multiplayer console action/strategy game for the living room.

07 Diablo II

(PC) days, Though I worked too many long its weeks, months and years on it was great development, once it shipped, in a true fun to play online with others client-server system.

08 Word Streak (MOBILE) I have always enjoyed languages, reading, writing and any kind of wordplay. In 2007, I discovered a Boggle clone by Zynga on Myspace, which evolved into Word Streak, and I have played nearly every day since.