Of my living years, 1994 is the first I remember as An Epic Year For Gaming. Up until this point I had dabbled in a handful of computer adventure games that my parents bought and the limited pile of NES games I had: Super Mario Bros., Jeopardy!, The Empire Strikes Back and Blades of Steel to name a few. My horizons were about to expand on Christmas of 1993: I received a Sega Genesis. As …
I thought Steerpike’s post about Madness as presented in cinema and in games was asking all the right questions but offering precious little in the way of answers. Since my wife instructed me to do the weekly house cleaning before running off to a beauty parlour, I thought there was nothing more logical than to ignore her wishes and try to analyze what exactly we mean when we say “madness” and how come it almost …