It’s in the Game
August 13, 2008 25 Comments
Regardless of how you feel about EA, chances are they have developed, published, or distributed at least a few of your favorite games. With more than 25 years behind them, they currently have almost 1,000 titles credited to their name. I recently had the pleasure of attending Dead Space Community Days at their Redwood City headquarters, and during some down time we were given a tour of their rather lavish facilities. While it was amazing to walk through the extremely quiet developer floor and fun to goof off on their full-size basketball court, there was nothing quite like the stroll down their extensive ‘Wall of Games’. Included on these walls were the covers of every single game EA has ever published since the company’s inception back in 1982. Needless to say, it was quite the overwhelming presentation. Between the pictures I took and the video Aeropause captured, see if you can’t catch a glimpse of that one standout game from your childhood that you played during every waking moment. You know which one I’m talking about. Yup, Shaq Fu. I bet it’s there, somewhere.
*A very special thank you to Joe from Aeropause for allowing me to post his video. I guess I have to be nice to him at the next event now. Damn it.
Huh….EA is as old as I am!
And yes…for a period of about 3 days it was Shaq-Fu.* =P
To my credit it was a friend’s game so I never actually “bought” it. =)
Shaq Fu was before my time if I recall correctly, and if I do, infact, recall correctly is was highly praised and recieved well. Also the video wont load…
Nevermind it’s working now.
O_o
1994 was before your time?
Well I feel old….
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We are probably thinking of two different games kenraves because the Shaq Fu I am referring to wasn’t received all that well. Well, unless you consider being known as one of the worst video games of all time being received well. LOL, …
And for the record, I graduated from high school in 1994. “We’re the best, say no more, Seniors, Seniors, ’94!” Oh man, I’m old as fuck. I mean shit. Ah crap. I’m so not child friendly.
LOL
We love anyway!
Thank you for the kind words. The only thing better than Shaq Fu, was the sequel! And to make you feel young, I graduated in 1990, and was born when Nixon was still in office. Even more scary is the fact I share the same year and date birthday with one Corey Haim. It still gives me nightmares.
Oh and for the record, the best game on that wall is Starflight, followed by Bard’s Tale and Hard Hat Mack.
Whell being one year old is a hard time to fathom video games in genral. When I was five and got my hands on Jet Force Gemini and made my dream to make video games I assumed you placed a green thingy called a chip into a grey thingy, drew a pretty picture and stuck it on the grey thing and sold it AND THE GAME WAS MADE!
Sacrasm doesn’t transfer well through the internets tubes, bs angel. My mistake.
Shaq Fu? Can we imagine a Halo 3 customer gametype that would reflect the brilliance of this game?
No?
Didn’t think so! :-D
I don’t think we even want to SonofMacPhisto!
Aaahhh, … I should have realized you were being sarcastic kenraves. ::insert face palm here::
OMG
I had forgotten all about NFS III!
i have no idea how though.
I spent my gaming time playing that, panzer general, and marathon.
lol
Dude! Archon, M.U.L.E., man it brings back memories, I’d fire up the old Commodore 64 and play for hours!!!
That is one hell of a long game list.
Old school games?
Pitfall bitches, Pitfall. :-D
NFS 1-4 on the PS1, NFS: HP2 & underground 1 & 2 + Most Wanted, Nuclear Strike…and of course any NHL game from ’96+
And Shaq Fu = Craptastic Fu
oh, and BS angel – class of ’96 here
“1994 was before your time?”
I was one year old. lol.
I actually still have NBA Live 98 on the Super Nintendo.
Good ol days when EA was nicer :)
Do what?! angel theres no way you’re older than I am. i figured you were around 24 or so. i told you bs stood for beguiling succubus! :P
oh, much respect for EA but MicroProse has my heart…….i still play X-COM: UFO Defense to this day. best game ever. btw, if anyone knows anyone who knows anyone that is a developer of nintendo ds games, tell them to get with the program and make a x-com clone for the ds. X-COM DS = uber win :)
1000+ games… but what’s the percentage of that is good games? That’s the real question. There are quite a few that I do like but overall EA isn’t my favorite game developer/publisher.
Shaq Fu wasn’t that bad of a game. It’s the concept that’s really bad. I remember playing it back in the day and not being disgusted by it. It might have been the kid in me that was just happy to be playing a videogame which we all seem to lose as we age, but it wasn’t be that bad. At least that’s how I remember it. ;)
I would like to take a second to award gamedaddy one million points. That is all.
I think I’ve played just about every Need For Speed since the first release in 1994 (sponsored by Road & Track). I’m not saying I like ‘em all, I’ve just played them all. I’ll also admit (sheepishly) that I remember rocking “One on One: Dr. J vs Larry Bird” on my Apple II, so… I guess I’m older than f**k?
Oh bs angel you know you are a young sexy thang. Quit playing dumb :P
My first huge game release was Super Mario Bros 3 – like, when they had that crazy-ass movie ‘The Wizard’ to promote it.
Other then that, it was probably NBA Jam. I still use ‘boomshakalaka’ in regular conversation.
I didn’t know you were going to my old stomping grounds, would have told you to skip the catered lunch and get a buffalo chicken sandwich at Steves. Did they still have the reverse engineered genesis there ? Man I kind of miss that campus, so many good memories.