"My six-year-old son at the time - he's now 18 - he said, 'Dad, I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros?' I said, 'Well, Henry, I did that so you could have shoes.' And he said 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly'."  
Dennis Hopper

Ever wondered what happened to Matthew Smith's game Attack of the Zombie Flesh Eating Chickens From Mars?

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"I'm really looking forward to that game (Splinter Cell). It would be great if we could just turn Splinter Cell into Metal Gear Solid X"

Hideo Kojima

People often say that Wacky Races on Dreamcast used cel-shading before Jet Set Radio, but it seems that Looney Tunes Space Race may actually have been the first!

"He made some comments later on through his agent, something like, 'Hey, that game was so big I should have charged them more money', and I hate that kind of chat. It's like, be cool. You know? I hate that - it's so cheesy. Like he's saying, 'Next time I'm really going to pin it to them'. Well, how about we just killed off your character? So he doesn't exist - there is no next time. That's how we handle that."

Sam Houser, President of RockStar Games - explaining why Ray Liotta didn't return after Vice City

"This Game Makes My Flesh Crawl" from a classic review of the terrible game Dangerous Streets on Amiga CD32. Reviewed by Stuart Campbell of Amiga Power magazine. The game scored 3%! Even more worrying is this was the game included with the console.

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"It's like taking a shit. A lot of things influenced No More Heroes - things I saw or heard, and something that came from inside. Something that needed to be eliminated from my body like waste. That's why I created No More Heroes.  I realised I had a lot more that needed to be eliminated from my body. No More Heroes 2? New taking-a-shit."

Goichi Suda the CEO of Grasshopper Manufacture

A new Neo Geo game has just been officially released - 22 years after the system's launch. Think Turrican :)

Gamplay Video:

Tetris : So true.....

"I remember when we demoed it to Nintendo, to Mr Arakawa [Nintendo founder] and Howard Lincoln who was president at the time - it was a scene in which Conker pisses all over these fire monsters. Mr Arakawa was cracking up, but Howard Lincoln, was sitting there going 'I'm not sure I find this funny' "

Mark Betteridge Studio Head at Rare talking about Conker's Bad Fur Day

If you like Jet Set Radio, you will love this custom Dreamcast

"I like the fact that the central characters, the soldiers, can only shoot directly upward and not diagonally. We spent a lot of thought on this, and I believe this is the only way to do an action shooter!" Kazuma Kujo (Irem/Nazca) one of the designers on the original Metal Slug

The Atari Panther (from the August 1991 edition of The One Magazine)

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