G’day team and happy pride month! 🏳️🌈
Well it’s been one of those weeks hasn’t it? It’s been an absolute firehose of Xbox news this week and I’m desperately scrambling for the off valve, I don’t think I can take any more news from the green company.
Which is why we aren’t covering any of that here today, today we’re giving ourselves a break and looking at gaming content thats positive, cheery, and not even remotely green.
If you are new here, this is the Reconnect Recap, the companion newsletter to my website Reconnect, the only aggregator of video game blogs on the internet.
This week, we’re coving blue hedgehogs, letters to our younger selves, football, dial-up internet, and much much more.
Let’s dig in!
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Great Write Ups
Camp Dad: Tyler Freader guest posts on Crossplay reminisces about his late father and his peculiar play style in his favourite shooter.
Note to Self: Amanda Lynn recaps twenty years in the industry by writing a letter to their 10 year old self.
True to the source: Voice acting is extremely underrated and can really make a huge difference in the authenticity of the experience. Gonçalo Santos picks up on an impactful casting choice in the latest bond game.
Controller Corner: Cat's Controller Corner lives true to their name and discusses how Valves latest controller is near perfect.
Choose your racer!: degonyte dives deep on gamings long history of racing cars with gaming mascots as a new one emerges on the horizon.
Digital nom noms: SuperJump Magazine explains the importance of food in setting the scene of a game, feating Yakuza.
Simpler Times: Chris (90s and 00s nostalgia) remembers the early years of the internet, the feeling of looking up gaming information back in the PS1 era, and the noise of dial up.
Football realism: I didn’t know that Football games don’t simulate proper ball physics, Path Oracle ExitLag explains why this is.
Real competition: When your game is going up against thousands of others at Next Fest, it’s easy to think of all of them as being your competition, but are they really? Cole explains how that’s a bit of a fallacy.
Pulling the plug: It’s a big decision to cancel a game in development, Game Studio Unlocked explains how to go through that process.
Anthropomorphic blue eulipotyphla: Sonic turned 25, and Lawrence 'Scanlines' Lichfield is willing to bet that even if you’re old, your introduction to Sonic was probably via the NES which had the inferior version of Sonic, those who got to play it on the Master System, had it much better.
Getting Started: John Murphy shares his thirty year history with video games with us and how he got started.
Fun Tidbits
“We Have The Means To Fight This Case To The End” - Gaming’s Most Infamous Trademark Troll Is Back
FIFA International Soccer, The Game That Launched A Billion-Dollar Series
The Day Sega Took Over An F1 Race, And Ayrton Senna Lifted A Sonic Trophy
New (Old) 3D Golf: porting PC-9801 & Virtual Boy to Mega Drive
Thank you so much for the inclusion, Alex!