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When I played Magicland Dizzy for my Super Chart Island entry on it and struggled through the minimum necessary actions to get some specific gifs, I found it wild to remember that I completed the whole game as a young child. My parents - younger at the time than I am now - helped play through Dizzy games as well, though.

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At home, cute mascot Dizzy and his fairytale adventures were probably as close as I had to a series of games which actually self-defined as being for children.

There were games like Granny’s Garden and other educational games which I relate to being for children because I played them at school, but otherwise there is little which fits obviously into the category. Everything and nothing was a game for children. Impossible Mission was a game for children. By my own experience of what I latched onto hard, Stunt Car Racer was a game for children. Not necessarily, however, many games for children. I have written about many games from my childhood.

Part of the project is also to excavate my childhood and see how the memories of it stand up to inspection, and to fill in the context that I didn’t have or didn’t understand.

There are also other things that motivate me to do what I’m doing. I think that keeping up a history of popular video games through a different lens than the nostalgia and commercial interests of the long-term winners is important. My biggest statement of intent for this project to date comes in my Trivial Pursuit entry. Spyro the Dragon (Insomniac/Sony, PlayStation, 1998)

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