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Old Gamer - Games of Xmas past

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Channel: BBC The Social · 2016 · Entertainment

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These are the three games you absolutely need for Christmas ... if it was 1996. Crash Bandicoot's best years were on the Playstation 1, and this is the game that started it all. Bright, beautiful, with a brilliant art design that still holds up today, Crash Bandicoot was a solid platformer, albiet one with a difficulty spike that could reduce grown men to tears. Also worth noting, it's going to be remade fairly shorty, and was developed by Naughty Dog, who later went on to do games such as y'know, The Last Of Us and other small indie things like that. However if we're going to talk about platforming, we have to talk about Mario 64. Now there are few games that can really be described as perfect, but Mario 64 is one of them. Not only is it a fantastic game, it defined to this day, what it means to be a 3D platformer. Make no mistake, 20 years on, Mario 64 is still the benchmark for 3D platform games.
Another game that made brilliant use of the then fairly new 3D technology was Tomb Raider. Core Design created these brilliant, open, non linear spaces that had you exploring, had you investigating, instead of simply running from point A to point B. It also gave us a sense of scale, these enormous caverns and cathedrals that we'd never seen before. And, as if all that wasn't enough, you got to shoot a bear.

So there you have it, Scott's three picks for Christmas 1996. You got anything you want to throw into Santa's sack, let Scott know in the comments below. 

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