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Starfox Adventures is the best game in the franchise. I will die on this hill! 

[sunshinejihyun]

The Three Times He Realized He’s in Love || Zen Ryu

Summary: A story told through the eyes of Zen about the highs and lows of his first love.

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The first time Zen realized he was in love with you was at the second RFA party. You were there with a date, and Zen wasn’t him.

“Zen!” You exclaimed, throwing your arms around your best friend’s neck. “Come dance with me!” The official party was over but you, Zen, and the rest of the RFA stayed behind at the venue, opting to take advantage of the open bar.

Zen rolled his eyes and rested his hands on your hips, failing to notice Jumin glaring at him from across the room. “You’re drunk, MC.”

You brushed your nose against Zen’s, looking at him adoringly and he huffed as he felt your breath brush over his lips. This was torture to him, absolute torture. “Of course I’m drunk, since none of you are using the open bar, I might as well give our bartender something to do!” You ran your hand gently through his hair and giggled as Zen leaned slightly into your touch. “Speaking of being drunk, why aren’t you?”

This wasn’t like you, in the year or so that he’d come to know you, he never once saw you with a drink in your hand. Now, you’re standing in front of him, your cheeks permanently rosy as you talked to him, standing way too close for someone who arrived on the arm of the trust fund kid. “Someone has to be sober enough to make sure you don’t make stupid decisions since apparently your date can’t do that.”

You brought your face as close to his ear as you could, despite the obvious height difference and Zen’s breath hitched. “Come on Zen,” your lips were so close to his ear, close enough for your breath to brush against his throat and Zen was sure you could feel his pulse racing. “Live a little.” You smiled and whipped your head towards Jumin who called your name. Looking back at Zen apologetically, you let go of his neck. “I should go, I’m sorry.”

When you walked away, Zen’s heart cracked and he called out to you. “Don’t drink too much more! Jumin will actually kill me. I heard he has people to do that job.”

You turned back to Zen and sent him a wink. “I’ll be fine, Zen. I’ll find you later.” You blew him a playful kiss, something that he should be used to by now but definitely wasn’t and Zen felt his neck and cheeks heat up.

“See ya later,” he called back, but you were already with Jumin, laughing and smiling and trying to get him to dance with you, although there was no music. If it was Zen in that position, he’d have pulled you close and sang in your ear as you slow danced together.

Zen wandered around the party venue for a while before finding a quiet room and taking a moment to breathe. Flopping down on a huge chair, he took his hair out of the ponytail he was currently sporting and he sighed. God, was he an idiot. How stupid was he to believe that he had a chance with you, his best friend in the whole world, the girl he shared a toasted marshmellow with at the first RFA party, the girl who was dating his sworn mortal enemy.

Zen didn’t mean to fall in love with you, not in the slightest. He loved having you as a best friend and in all honesty, he didn’t even realize he was in love with you until a few weeks ago. You were sitting on one end of his couch, silently answering emails that party guests had sent you, and he was sitting on the other, muttering the lines for his new role to himself under his breath.

“Do you need help?” You had set aside your laptop and was now looking at Zen, curling into the cushions more.

Zen looked up and his heart stopped. This was the first sign he felt something more than friendship towards you. You were wearing one of his sweatshirts he had earlier hung over the end of the couch that he told himself he would remember to put away. He didn’t, and now he was so grateful for that, and for the fact that he liked to keep his place cold, so that he could see you in his clothing. “If you’d like to help, that’d be good. But I know you’re busy so if you need to keep preparing for the party, please do so. I can always practice in the bathroom mirror, so I can look at myself to make sure my expressions are right.”

You silently held out your hand for the script he had been agonizing over and he gave it to you, moving closer to you so that he could see the script as well when you ran lines with him. With your elbows bumping together every once in a while, you stayed up until early morning with Zen working on his lines and facial expressions and when you fell asleep in the middle of him practicing one of his monologues, he felt his heart burst with adoration for you. This wasn’t how he should feel for a friend.

After sitting and wallowing in self doubt for a while, Zen decided it was time to head home. It was late, he was tired, and quite frankly, he was just ready to be alone, and this party was starting to drag on a little too long for his liking. So pulling up his metaphorical big boy pants, Zen marched down the stairs and when he reached the bottom, you were practically in his arms.

“There you are, I’ve been looking all over for you.” You almost purred this into Zen’s ear and hell, if it wasn’t causing him to feel all these types of feelings he shouldn’t feel for his best friend. He had to remind himself that this was the alcohol in your system talking. You were dating Jumin and you only ever thought of Zen as a best friend.

“I was in another room. Hey, I should head home.” You pushed a piece of hair out of your face

Zen started leading you to the light switch on the other side of the room. As light filled the room, there was a collective groan from the rest of the RFA members who were hanging out in the dark. “Sorry guys, I’m heading home.” Zen called out to your friends, making you pout and throw your arms around his neck again in a tight hug.

Zen’s arms barely wrapped around your middle before Jumin made his way over you the both of you. “Darling, are you ready to go home?” Jumin asked you, tightly smiling at the position he had found you and Zen in. Zen’s arms went limp and he gently detached your arms from around his neck.

You slowly turned your head towards Jumin, a smile still plastered on your face and you blinked once, the smile disappearing. “Yeah sure,” you turned back towards Zen, who was still trying to get the feel of your body against his out of his mind and you gave him another tight squeeze. “Don’t be a stranger. I’ll see you soon.”

Jumin silently escorted you to the car that was waiting for the both of you and you climbed into the back seat after Jumin, already reaching for the music when Driver Kim started the car. “Can we please keep it quiet? My head hurts,”

You retracted your hand, quickly picking up on the fact that Jumin was upset at something. “What’s wrong?”

Jumin’s hands clenched the fabric of his pants and it took all he had in him not to pull you into his lap and whisper in your ear how you were his, and only his; tell you how jealous he was over your friendship with Zen. “Nothing’s wrong, darling. I’m fine.”

You sighed and rested your hand on Jumin’s thigh and he set his right hand over your left. “Jumin, I may be drunk, but I’m not stupid. I know when my boyfriend’s upset. What’s wrong?”

Jumin shook his head, watching out the window as the car pulled up to the front entrance of the penthouse that you and he now lived in together. “It’s stupid, forget it.”

You shook your head and unbuckled your seatbelt. “Jumin, I don’t feel so good.”

He laughed. “I wouldn’t expect you to feel great. You drank a lot tonight.”

You shook your head, pressing a hand to your chest. “No, like I really don’t feel good. I think I’m gonna pass out.”

Jumin ran a hand up and down his face, taking a deep breath, which was a clear sign he was stressed, and got out of the car, walking over to your side and picking you up. “Let’s get you inside and into bed. You just need some rest.” You silently agreed, pressing your nose into the side of his neck and peppering kisses on the underside of his chin. “MC, you should stop. You’re drunk and I don’t want us to do anything we might regret in the morning.”

You pouted against his neck, but stopped your attack on his jawline and Jumin escorted you both to the shared bedroom you both had been sleeping in for the past year. By the time he had gotten changed into pajamas, you were fast asleep on top of the bed, your party dress still on and makeup smudged across your face and Jumin felt his heart thud in his chest with adoration as he watched you sleep, wondering how lucky he was to have someone like you love him.

-

The first time Zen got his heart broken by you was a week after the finale night. You were laying on his bed, giggling as Jumin continued to text you.

“Do you want to play Super Mario Bros?” Zen had spent 10 minutes pulling out his old Gamecube because he knew you loved to play on it.

You looked up from your phone and it was like you were in a trance. You were there physically but mentally, you were with Jumin. “Sorry, what?”

Zen’s face fell and he could tell you had no idea what you were doing wrong. “I said: do you wanna play this game with me?”

You sighed and rolled off his bed, grabbing your wool sweater off his floor; it got hot so you took it off, opting to just have the black long sleeved shirt on that you always wore underneath. “I should probably get going, Jumin will be home soon and will expect me to be there.”

Zen rubbed a hand over his face, something he noticed he was doing a lot more than usual; he was more stressed than usual which made him more stressed, since stress lead to pimples. He had finally gotten used to the fact that you were dating that jerk, and now he also had to deal with the fact that he was pretty sure he was in love with you? “Okay, I can drive you home.”

He went to go grab a sweatshirt and his motorcycle keys but you put a hand on his arm, stopping him. “Driver Kim is waiting, but thank you for the offer!” Stopping to slightly ruffle his hair, you smiled down brightly at him. “I’ll see you soon!”

Zen felt the bitter sting of rejection in the back of his mouth as he watched you walk off, smiling at something on your phone. Probably a message from Jumin, something that Zen desperately didn’t want to hear about, but something he wanted to do for himself.

-

The first time Zen got his heart broken by you was on a Monday morning. Zen pulled his motorcycle to the front of the penthouse at 9:40 AM, giving two quick beeps to signal to you that he was there. You and he were going to meet up with Yoosung to help him move out of his apartment. Now that he had finished school, he was going to move in with Zen to save some money while looking for a job. And let’s be honest, them living together would probably be a good thing since Yoosung didn’t take good care of himself and Zen needed something to focus on other than you and his acting gigs, since when he was thinking about practicing now, his mind wandered back to you on his couch that night.

You of course offered up your help when Yoosung had asked for some help packing things and since you volunteered, so did Zen. He watched you open the door and he watched you walk down the front steps of you house, a smile playing on your lips.

“Good weekend?” Zen asked you as you sat yourself down behind him, buckling the helmet he always had strapped to the back of his motorcycle now.

“The best,” the smile still hasn’t left your face. Zen loved to see you happy, don’t get him wrong, but he knew you were happy because of Jumin and that killed him, more than he would like to admit. “Can I tell you something?”

Zen glanced at you as he continued watching your fingers struggle with the buckle before playfully batting your hands away and buckling it on his own. “I’m your best friend,” Zen found that recently, had trouble saying that phrase but he did nonetheless. “You can tell me anything.”

You glanced at the light haired boy and he looked back at you, giving you a reassuring smile. “Jumin’s talking about us starting to plan a wedding.”

Zen’s heart fell to his feet with those words and you looked down, picking at the chipped nail polish on your fingers. “Congrats,”

Zen couldn’t think. His head was pounding and his breathing was starting to become erratic. He started his motorcycle and waited until your arms were wrapped comfortably around his midsection- he didn’t want to start riding until he was sure you were holding on safe. “Are you okay?” You shouted over the wind blowing as he started to pick up speed. “Listen Zen, I know it’s a big deal but this was always going to happen.”

He zoned you out, not wanting to hear about this right now. Motorcycle riding was supposed to be his escape from reality but right now, it seemed he had to face reality more than ever. And the reality was that he wanted to be the one planning a wedding with you. He wanted to be the one to make you smile and hold you when you were upset. He wanted to put on silly performances with ridiculous costumes just to hear your laugh at any time he would like. He didn’t want you with Jumin, not in the slightest.

You looked shut your mouth quickly once you realized Zen wasn’t paying attention, hurt at the way he brushed you off. Once he pulled up to Yooosung’s apartment building, you immediately got off the bike and started to head up to his door. “Zen, I’ll be back in a moment and then you and I can go get tape and boxes together.”

“Don’t bother,” Zen spat but it was too late, you were already too far away to hear him. As soon as you were out of sight, Zen broke down, tears streaming down his face faster than he thought possible.

There was a gentle hand resting on his shoulder and Zen hastily brushed the tears away that were on his cheeks and chin. Looking up, he saw Yoosung standing next to him, an apologetic look on his face. “What happened?”

Zen blew his nose into a tissue that he had in his pocket, Yoosung cringing at the noise. “Jumin happened,” Hestayed quiet, waiting for Zen to continue. “Stupid Jumin came and just wooed MC and took her away from me before I could even have a chance and-”

“You love her,” Yoosungstated, staring at Zen. He nodded, more tears starting to well up in his eyes.

“I love her so much, man. And she broke my heart.”

-

The second time Zen realized he was in love with you was when you showed up crying at his doorstep at 11:07 PM, three months after he had last seen you. He didn’t blame you for not coming around, you were busy planning a wedding and whenever you talked about it, Zen would withdraw himself from the conversation. He just didn’t want to hear about it. “MC?”

You wiped at your eyes, looking at Zen. “I’m sorry I know you’re mad at me for whatever reason and I probably shouldn’t even be here but I needed to see you.”

Zen felt his resolve fall away and he pulled you into his arms, his shirt slowly starting to wet because of the tears falling. “What’s going on?”

“I’m pregnant,” you sobbed out and Zen felt the world crash around him. He tightened his arms around you, opting to stay silent. “Zen, I’m so stupid. A kid was never supposed to be part of the plan and I know Jumin doesn’t even want one. I don’t know what to do.”

“Shh,” Zen quieted you, rocking you back and forth. “I’m not gonna lie, that sucks.” You let out a breathy laugh and Zen’s heart swelled with affection at that sound. “But we can get through this. Together.”

“Jumin doesn’t want anything to do with the baby.” Zen felt his pulse quicken when you looked at him with big eyes. “Or me, for that matter.”

“I can help you raise this baby, MC. We can move in together. I don’t have to work late hours anymore. I-I was supposed to go on tour but I can decline the role. I just want to be there for you.”

“You’re not giving up work, Zen. You can’t.” You smiled sadly and rested a hand on his knee and this time, he set his hand protectively over yours. “I’ll be okay. Jaehee can help me, my mom can help me-”

“But MC! That kid needs a father figure in their life.” Your tears had stopped and you turned to Zen.

“Zen, stop. I know what you’re trying to do and you can’t. Your work is your entire life. It’s so incredibly important to you. You cannot let me hold you back from that.”

“You wouldn’t be holding me back I lo-” You cut Zen off by pressing your lips to his.

“I know, I do too. But you can’t give this up yet. Not when your career is just starting to take off.” Zen nodded, pressing his left hand to his lips.

“I can’t give this up yet.” Zen repeated back, almost like he was trying to convince himself more than anything  and you rested your head on his shoulder, him wrapping his arm around your shoulders. “We’ll get through this, I promise.”

“I hope,” you whispered back, burying yourself more into his side as Zen pressed a kiss to the top of your head.

-

The second time Zen got his heart broken by you was two years after he went on tour because his musical career kicked off. He left without saying goodbye and cut off communication with everyone from the RFA, ready for a fresh start. He had decided to not meet up with Saeran and Saeyoung for Christmas the first year, even though they had offered him a spot in their ‘orphan Christmas celebration’  and opted to work on his new role that he was going to be starting once this tour ended. For summer break, he went on a backpacking trip in Europe with the girl he was dating then. Her name was Ivy and she was sweet and pretty and liked the same things as he did but she was not you.

So sucking it up for the second winter break off his tour, Zen returned home and found himself on the doorstep of the Choi household before he even stopped to say hello to Yoosung, which he promised he’d do when he came home. He knocked on the door, three taps and before he could do a fourth, the door was ripped open and Zen was face to face with Saeyoung. “Uh, hey, Seven.”

He opened the door for Zen to walk inside and Zen nodded his head, thankful for the heat. “Uncle Saeyoung! Come look at what mommy got me!”

A young boy ran up to Saeyoung, wrapping his little arms around his bigger legs and Saeyoung picked up the boy, tapping him on the nose. “I’ll come look in a second, we have a guest over right now.”

“Saeyoung you’ll never believe…” You walked in the room, smiling at something you were holding in your hands and looked towards your friend, the smile dropping off your face when you saw Zen. “Oh, I didn’t realize you were back.”

Your stance made it very clear how you felt: you were mad. Your hips were cocked to one side and your arms were crossed across your chest. “I just got back off the tour, like, literally ten minutes ago.”

Zen awkwardly looked at Saeyoung, hoping for him to help. He Looked towards your son and shrugged. “Come on, Will, we should go find Uncle Saeran and you can tell him and I all about what mommy got you, okay?”

You and Zen both watched helplessly as Chelsea walked into the next room and Zen heard Henrik exclaim something in the next room. “Saeran? Saeyoung?”

You looked at Zen and he felt his face heat up under your gaze. “Yeah, turns out Seven had a twin brother who was the hacker that first introduced me to the RFA. After all that came out, he decided he wanted to stop changing identities and finally be able to live life as himself.”

“So, um, how are you?” Zen awkwardly rubbed at the back of his neck.

“No, no. You don’t get to do that, Zen. Leave for two years without so much as a postcard and then you come into my home and try to make small talk with me?” You walked closer to him and jabbed a finger in the middle of his chest. “You offered to be my child’s father and then you leave without so much as a goodbye? What happened to getting through this together, Zen? Huh? Because as far as I can tell, it’s only been me, Saeyoung, and Saeran who’s been raising this child.”

Zen stood still, for once in his life, he didn’t know what to say. He didn’t have a joke to crack, he didn’t have a sincere apology to give you. His mind went blank, all he could think about was you, that night on his doorstep: so fragile, and he held you like he thought you were fine china. Like one wrong move and you would break. You weren’t that same girl anymore; something happened to you after he left and he wanted so badly to reach out and hold you close to him, and beg you to talk to him, let him help now. But you wouldn’t let him, so Zen kept still.

“Zen!” Jaehee calling his name brought Zen out of the staring contest you and he were seeming to have. “It’s so nice to see you! When did you get home?”

Jaejee embraced Zen and he hugged her back, trying to detangle himself from the situation he was in. “Um, actually just a few minutes ago. I stopped by to say hello to MC but I promised Yoosung I’d say hi as soon as I got back, so I should get going.”

“Nonsense, stay for dinner. Come and catch up!” Jaehee Was either ignoring the daggers in your stare was just oblivious but either way she wasn’t taking the hint. Zen was sure it was because she wanted information about the tour and to maybe get exclusive information to share with the fan club, which has now skyrocketed since his career took off.

“He said he had to get going.” Your stern look made Jaehee close her mouth and throw her hands up, silently walking out of the room. “I’ll show you to the door, Zen.”

“MC, please. Talk to me. What happened while I was away?” Zen put a hand over your hand that was on the door handle and you stopped for a second, closing your eyes and letting out a heavy sigh.

“Zen, remember all those times where you didn’t want to talk to me?” Zen nodded, his eyes searching to reach yours. “I respected that and I left you alone. Now, I need you to respect that I don’t want to talk right now.”

“Mommy? Who is that?” Zen heard your son ask you after Zen had stepped out the door. He saw Saeran and Saeyoung come into view right before the door closed and Zen felt his heart ache as he watched his friend with his long lost brother.

“He’s an old friend, Will. He doesn’t matter.” Zen heard you mutter before the door was slammed in his face, his heart falling on the cement in front of him.

-

The third time Zen really realized he was still madly in love with you was also the first time you told Zen that you were in love with him was three weeks after he showed up at your doorstep. He had already gone back on tour and wasn’t expecting any visitors to show up at his hotel room, let alone have it be you.

“Hey,” you shifted your weight from one foot to another. “Are you gonna let me come in?”

Zen wordlessly opened the door wider and you stepped in, following Zen to the musky smelling couch that all hotel rooms seemed to have and sat down next to him.

“I thought you made it pretty clear a few weeks ago, MC. You don’t want anything to do with me.” Zen was confused, not only about why you were in California in his hotel room, but why after all this time and separation did he still want to pull you into his arms and kiss you until you were breathless.

“That’s the thing, Zen. That’s not what I wanted. I was upset, and rightfully so. You left for two years without so much as a word. I missed you, there was so much I wanted to tell you. So much happened-”

“What happened with Jumin after I left? Yoosung told me you guys got back together.” Zen shifted so he could look at you, really look at you. And his heart ached. He hates the unknown of those two years; so much could have happened.

“That didn’t last long. He wasn’t a good parent to Will, even though he did try to be. Some people just aren’t meant to be parents and so we mutually decided that was the end of us, and I moved in with Saeran and Saeyoung.” Making eye contact with you for the first time in years, Zen felt his heart flutter like he was back in high school. “Aren’t you gonna ask me why I’m here?”

Laughing, Zen hesitantly put his arm around your shoulders and when you leaned into his touch, he smiled victoriously to himself. “I was getting there,”

“I came because I needed to tell you something,” you wouldn’t look at Zen but he could tell you were nervous, picking off nail polish on your fingers, like you always did. “Something I should have told you all those nights ago on your doorstep.”

“What is it, MC?” Zen’s heart felt like it was in his throat and he rubbed his hand up and down your shoulder encouragingly.

“I want my kid to grow up to be like you, I want you in his life, influencing him. Showing him how to be a gentleman and how to treat people kindly. I want you to show him that it’s okay to be vulnerable. I want him to grow up thinking that it’s okay to cry. I want you to be the father that he needs, not the father that he has.”

“MC, I really don’t think you mean-”

“I do mean it though.” You insisted. “I want him to grow up to be like the man I loved. The man I still do love.” You looked Zen intensely in the eyes and he looked back at you.

“What are you saying?” Zen wanted to believe what he was hearing was what he hoped was what you were actually saying, but there was a part of him that needed confirmation. The same part of him that felt like he was going to throw up from the nerves.

“I’m saying that I love you, Zen. And that I have loved you since that night that we practiced lines together. Maybe even before then, who knows. Yes, Jumin was my first love, that will never change. But you will forever be my las love. I can’t imagine loving anyone as intensely as I love you.”

Zen didn’t wait for you to continue saying anything else before pressing his lips to yours softly. You two had shared a kiss or two in the past but this one felt different. Both of your feelings were laying out on the table in front of you and the feelings were so fragile after being put out in the open.

“In case that didn’t speak for itself, I love you too, MC. So much more than you could ever imagine.” Zen was a man of many words, most of them coming out beautifully and poetically but right then and there, he couldn’t think of anything to say other than that. And you were okay with that, because his actions spoke more volumes than anything else ever could.

[michiigii-writes-mysme]

RFA+S - worst fights with MC

There was this one time they all played Super Smash Bros on the Wii U.

It was pretty intense.

Yoosung kept screeching that he kept missing grabs because he wasn't used to using a Wii-mote.  But that annoyed everybody because he was still fighting pretty well.

They gave Jumin a Gamecube controller because he kept using the Wii-mote and nunchuk wrong.  But that didn't really help his game.

MC was doing okay on the Wii U screen.

Zen kept losing track of himself and running off of the stage.  "Self-KOs are not the same as selfies, Zen." "Shut up!"

Saeyoung would fight pretty well, until a Pokeball spawned.  Then he would just run for it screaming that he wanted to be the very best.

Saeran wasn't that into it, but he had a lot of fun collecting items.  Got the Dragoon every time.  Always shot it at Saeyoung.

Jaehee sort of struggled with everything but countering.  She was good at that.

But it wasn't a timed fight; it was stock.

The worst.

They played that round for hours.

...Except Zen; he died pretty early on.

=P

OKAY, so RFA's worst fights with MC.

Zen:  How jealous he gets.  It's a recurring fight, but it's also the worst one that they have.  He can be incredibly insecure, and MC isn't perfect; she does lose her patience with him every now and then.  Also, how jealous MC sometimes gets.  Zen just attracts flirts, and out of habit, he doesn't always realize when he's flirting back.

Yoosung:  He gets jealous.  Not necessarily of other men, but of MC spending time with other people.  He likes having her to himself, but she's also a good friend, so sometimes she ends up cancelling plans with him to help someone else out.  He hates it.  And sometimes, MC treats him like a little kid.  She doesn't mean it maliciously; she wants to spoil him.  But sometimes, it makes him feel invalidated.

Jaehee:  MC's wild streak.  She can be impulsive, and that sometimes puts her into trouble.  It's part of what attracted Jaehee to her in the first place, but it sometimes becomes a problem.  And Jaehee's relationship with Zen.  MC gets jealous/feels left out, sometimes.

Jumin:  He gets controlling.  MC is a person, not a pet; she should have a certain amount of freedom!  And he can get overprotective.  There are "less than savoury" places that MC goes to visit, and it makes him uneasy.  But MC goes to those places because that's where her family and friends are!

Seven:  Whenever he lapses back into tsundere/emotionally distant mode.  "I thought we were past this!"  The emotional hurts don't just go away; they relapse.  Sometimes, it happens when MC is feeling vulnerable, and then the fights start.

Saeran:  He doesn't always think through what he says.  MC's usually good at reading him, but there are times when he says things that are too harsh.  He hurts her by accident, sometimes, and he doesn't always have the presence of mind to just apologize.  Sometimes, he leans into it in an attempt to drive MC away.

[janes-tech-review]

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Technology

Video gaming has served as a beacon of entertainment for multiple generations, and its popularity is showing no signs of slowing down. The industry’s growth has increased exponentially even in recent years, due largely to the increasing video gaming platforms accessible to gamers and the fact that gaming is no longer considered nerdy or geeky; it’s uber-cool. In fact, the video gaming industry is becoming so big that other entertainment industries such as film and music are in danger of being left trailing in its wake.

The explosion of the eSports industry, which helped video gaming become a bona fide profession, has had a significant influence in the proliferation of video gaming among young and old. According to Forbes.com, new data from Newzoo suggests eSports alone could become a billion-dollar revenue-driving industry in 2018, with revenues potentially reaching $1.65bn by 2021. Aside from eSports, there are a growing number of burgeoning video game platforms that have also helped to underpin video gaming as we know it in 2018. This article is designed to hark back to the origins of video gaming, plot the industry’s journey pre and post-Millennium and discuss some of the most recently classified video game platforms

How video gaming began

“Atari Super Pong” (CC BY 2.0) by zigazou76

Video gaming as we know it dates back to the 1970s. The world’s inaugural commercial video game was made for the arcades by a firm called Nutting Associates. The game was called Computer Space, but very few people remember the game as one year later another game took center stage in arcades and homes around the world. The brains behind the development of Computer Space, Nolan Bushnell, then formed Atari, which developed Pong. This tennis-style game became the world’s first successful commercial video game, thanks in no small part to its simplicity and intuitive nature that allowed humans to try and outsmart the computer. It was in 1975 when Atari released a home version of Pong, becoming a phenomenal success and laying the foundations for the future concept of home video games for decades to come.

The widespread availability of consoles at home

After the success of the Atari’s home version in 1975, the Fairchild Channel F was available for sale just one year later. This was the world’s first removable gaming console, but it was again usurped by the 1977 Atari Video Computer System, which utilized removable cartridges with games pre-loaded onto the cartridges, allowing console owners to play multiple games using the same hardware. By the mid-1980s, the quality of home video gaming had plateaued somewhat. The rise of arcades and the excitement of being able to venture into a room or building with purpose-built arcade machines to play on meant that interest in home-based video game consoles dipped. That was, of course, until the release of the Japanese-developed Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) that would change the course of the console-based gaming industry forever.

The success of the NES with its controller pad-style gaming, rather than the use of a traditional joystick, captured the imagination of gamers around the world. The controller pad helped players feel more immersed in their video game environment and allowed the likes of Nintendo to develop like-for-like reproductions of the most successful arcade video games for household consoles. New platform games such as Super Mario Bros. and the Legend of Zelda were designed exclusively for home-based consoles, as they were too in-depth for commercial arcade machines. They helped pave the way for other video game developers such as Sega and Sony to challenge Nintendo and help develop new features to home-based consoles, from the internet connectivity of the Sega Dreamcast and the multiplayer functionality of the Super Nintendo to the wireless gaming controllers of Nintendo GameCube.

Browser-based gaming

Desktop PC gaming has been challenging dedicated games consoles such as the PlayStation and Xbox for many years. The flexibility and versatility of desktop PCs has helped PC gamers to create high-specification gaming environments comparable or even better than those of games consoles. The ability to improve PC graphics by adding new graphics cards, RAM and many other accessories make the cost of PC gaming that much cheaper once gamers have the technology to do so. The widespread proliferation of the internet and subsequent web browsers has also led to the creation of a browser-based gaming scene – with developers creating games to be played within browsers like Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox; some of which need plugins like JavaScript and Adobe Flash to operate. Browser-based games are generally free-to-play offerings, although some do have payable versions available for those wishing to play with more in-game options, scenarios or accessories.

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There was a time when any browser-based game needed JavaScript or Flash to be powered. However, the increasing multi-platform nature of gaming, e.g., consoles, desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablet devices has meant that developers have needed a solution to create a more consistent user experience. HTML5 technology has helped pave the way to delivering a more dynamic, contemporary browser-based gaming experience. Game loading times are quicker; games can feature state-of-the-art, high-definition visuals and audio and, most importantly, they look and play the same regardless of what device you use to play them.

Growth of mobile gaming

Mobile gaming has become an increasingly influential video gaming platform, as smartphone and tablet devices become ever more sophisticated due to the latest iOS and Android operating systems. Although mobile gaming shares similar concepts with browser-based gaming, mobile games utilize other technologies to take the immersion and engagement to a whole new level, e.g., GPS data and mobile camera devices to foster augmented reality gaming environments. A recent news story from sky.com revealed that mobile gaming now accounts for two-fifths (40%) of the video gaming marketplace. Furthermore, by the turn of the next decade, it is expected to generate more than 50% of the entire video gaming industry’s revenues.

In 2017, mobile games were the most downloaded type of mobile app in both the Apple App Store and the Google Play store. Rovio, the Finnish masterminds behind the first global mobile gaming sensation, Angry Birds, recorded 3.7 billion downloads across its entire range of mobile games last year. The worldwide sensation of Pokemon Go also helped take mobile gaming to the next level by incorporating the augmented reality technology that we’ve previously touched upon. Pokemon fanatics could utilize the GPS overlays on their maps to pinpoint available Pokemon to catch and then use their smartphone cameras to spot and add them to their collection. Even in the last decade, mobile gaming has come on leaps and bounds. Historically, from a development point of view, it was restrictive and tough to create engaging gaming experience. However, the approach to augmented and virtual technologies has changed players’ expectations, which we’ll touch upon shortly.

Blockchain and cryptocurrency gaming

Late last year, an exciting new video gaming platform emerged. Blockchain technologies began to enable gamers to own virtual game assets. The best example is the Axiom Zen-developed game called CryptoKitties, based on the blockchain, allowing players to buy, sell, collect and breed a wide variety of virtual cats. The game operates on Ethereum’s blockchain network, with each CryptoKitty nominated with a unique non-fungible token (NFT) that’s value can rise or fall based on the market demands. This unique NFTs mean that each CryptoKitty is individual and cannot be copied. The owner of each CryptoKitty must give their permission for them to be transferred via the transparent yet secure blockchain. Such was the popularity of CryptoKitties that it has decelerated the amount of Ethereum trades and transactions capable of being made on the platform. Aside from the blockchain technology itself, the cryptocurrencies that blockchain underpins are also increasingly involved in video gaming. For instance, there are bitcoin iGaming sites such as bitcasino.io that offer state-of-the-art video slots and classic casino tables games to be played exclusively using bitcoin and other digital currencies.

Virtual reality gaming

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Virtual reality (VR) is giving rise to the next generation of gaming arcades, allowing gaming enthusiasts to experience the immersive three-dimensional virtual environments without having to purchase a VR headset for themselves. The VR gaming industry is expected to expand into a $2.3 billion industry by 2020 and the increasing VR headsets available on the shelves such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Samsung Gear offer 360-degree virtual gaming environments that cleverly detect a player’s in-game movements and calibrate these within the virtual world, making gamers feel a physical part of a three-dimensional space. There has never been a better time for innovation and experimentation in the world of VR video gaming. Games such as Superhot VR and Skyrim VR are proving extremely successful, with the former utilizing traditional first-person-shooter movements and controls to create action movie-style gameplay.

How big can video gaming become? With so many video game variants out there today, it’s hard to see a ceiling to the industry’s potential at present. Particularly with the convergence of VR and gaming, you can pretty much assume that most children and teens will have VR headsets on their Christmas lists to Santa Claus at the end of the year.

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Genre: Sports, Skateboarding

Developer: Neversoft Entertainment

Publisher: Activision

ESRB Rating: Teen

Release Date: November 15, 2005

Hints

Boost Your Gamer Score

Put it on easy or and put in 2them00n under cheats to get moon gravity then go to high score free skate and turn high score on and get major air, trick out, and then you’ll get an achievement for whatever location you choose, Beverly hills, oil rig, Hollywood.

Look Like Hyde From That 70’s Show

Go to the barber and get a brown afro and thegottee/mustache combo. Then, get tight pants andthe Hawk Thunder shirt. After that, get your blackboots and your dark (but not too dark) aviatorglasses.

Big Air

When going up a quarterpipe, instead of olling atthe top, ollie more towards the bottom. Yourskater should land at the top. Then, ollie againvery quickly and you should get a lot more air. Itis possible to get enough to do a 1080.

Hollywood: Construction Worker Trying To Levitate Goat

At the bowl on the roof near the skate shop, geton the second rail going towards the skate shopwall and sticker slap. Jump on the third (and top)rail then jump off towards the wall you are goingtowards. Dismount and you will be in an apartment.If you look near the bed in story mode, there is aconstruction worker trying to levitate a goat.Enable the “Moon gravity” cheat and go toHollywood. Go to the pool behind the billboardabove the skate shop near the bus. If you go highenough on the corner of the pool opposite to theone facing the bus, there will be a ledge you canland on. There will be a crack on the wall. Walkinto that wall, and you will enter a hotel roomwith a construction worker facing a goat on a bed.

Fat Albert The Movie Reference

The Roller Coaster and Ferris Wheel are from FatAlbert; even knowing they say that they are fromPhiladelphia.

The Karate Kid Reference

When you meet Master Zen for the second time, yourcharacter will make a comment saying “Is this awax on, wax on thing?”

Wrong Stance

Andrew Reynolds, Tony Trujillo, and Ryan Shecklerall have their stances as goofy, when they areactually all regular.

Make Unlimited Skate Boards Appear

Find a place to take a nap or a break, then throwdown your board and take a nap. After your nap isover you will wake up with a new board. If you dothis repeatedly, there will be numerousskateboards all over the place.

Das Oath-Awesome R***

To hear a very small portion of Awesome R***, playDead Kennedys-Uber Alles. Wait a few seconds afterthe track is finished. You should hear about ahalf a second of the introduction.

Developer Appearance

During the sequence when you rescue Boone from theBlack Widows, the person riding the cow is JoelJewett from Neversoft.

Shred Your Board

At Iggyz place by the entrance, there is a woodshredder (as seen as you first get into the skatepark). It reads “Trespassers enter here” Throwyour board into the mouth. The board will be showncoming out in shreds.

Avoiding Crashes

When you do a trick off a ramp into the air, andif it appears that you are going to crash, pressRB to get off your skateboard while still in theair. You should land safely on your feet.

Pigeon Hunt

Once you get the telescope for the Skate Ranch, itshould be on a barren solid concrete arch, on awooden stand.

Play As Robot Tony

Successfully complete Story mode under the easydifficulty setting.

Play As Useless Dave

Successfully complete Classic mode under thehard/sick difficulty setting.

Play As Welder

Get a 100% completion in Story mode.

Van’s Skate Park: Electrocution

Go around to where the sign that says to dismountis located. There is a electrical box that servesas a ramp. Climb up to the top and get off yourboard. There is a pole on top that you can seeelectricity flowing through. Hit it with yourboard and you will see your character get shocked,and you will restart on the ground.

Van’s Skate Park: Bathroom

On the lowest level there is a door in a corner.Sticker Slap it and go up the quarterpipe. Youwill come down on another quarterpipe, and at thetop of the screen the message “Yuck!” will appear.

Switch Off Board

While standing, tap RB(2) and your character willswitch his board to the other hand.

Slomo

When you have your special, click the LeftAnalog-stick to do slomo in single player andstory modes.

Bike Tricks

While on your bike you can do tricks that you havenot learned yet any time.

Hollywood: Aerial Moves

Once you get the spiral piece from the radiotower, you can get a major combo on it by standingin the middle and doing a manual. Whenever you areabout to fall, just jump and you will be launchedstraight up into the air, where you can do someawesome aerial moves. Then when you land, continueto manual.

Hollywood: Tony Hawk’s Underground Reference

During the mission when you have to get a 2,000point, 5,000 point, and 10,000 point combo, afterthe dinosaur comes down the bus that hits it has”THUG” on the front, which refers to Tony Hawk’sUnderground. However, if you check the front ofthe bus after or before the mission, it reads”THAW”, referring to Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland.

Hollywood: Falling Down Reference

The man who helps you by using a rocket launcheron the escalator is a reference to D-Fens, themain character of the movie Falling Down.

Play As Police Man

Get a 100% gap completion.

Play As Oil Rig Worker

Get a 100% gap completion.

Play As Performer

Get a 100% gap completion.

Play As Murphy

Successfully complete Story mode under thehard/sick difficulty setting.

Avoid Wipeouts On Bike

On the bike, start a high score run. If you areabout to wipeout, press Start and go to “End HighScore Run”. If done correctly, you will startagain and you will not wipeout.

See Underwear

Select a female skater or create one with a skirt.Enable the “Perfect manual” code and do a manual.Then, do a handstand and position the camera soyou can see up her skirt. All women in the gamewear red underwear.

Flames And Sparks Without The Cheat

Do a Primo Handstand. When your skater is doingthe handstand, immediately press RT. He will landthe trick and there should be flames/sparks comingfrom his board. Note: This may require a fewattempts. Also, you cannot do grinds, grabs, oranything to do with airing out of a half pipe.

Van’s Skatepark: Powerade

Go up to the upper deck where the bleachers, airhockey tables, and drink machines are found. Finda Powerade machine. Stand in front of it and hitit with your board. A Powerade should pop out.

Beverly Hills: Air Conditioner Soccer

Go up on a roof with AC units. Kick one off of thebuilding, then kick it to the place where theguard was when you had to skitch the dog. Get afriend to join you, and you can play soccer. Thewalls will be the goals.

Downtown: See Chavez

You can see Chavez by the giant fence in thesouthwest corner of the map.

Downtown: See Iggy

When the businessman pulls out his bazooka in themission on how you get downtown, look at theperson being blown down the escalator. It is Iggy.

East L.A.: Run Through Clothes

Go to the clothes shop. You can run all around thestore and thorough the clothes, unlike in theother shops.

East L.A.: Wheel Of Torture

Inside the casino on the ground floor are manyslot machines which have scrolling massages acrossthe top of them. Most will say, “Wheel ofTorture.” in bright yellow text.

Play As Boone In Briefs

Get a 100% gap completion.

Play As Billy Joe

Successfully complete Classic mode under thenormal difficulty setting.

Play As Boone

Successfully complete Classic mode under thenormal difficulty setting.

Play As Baller

Get a 100% completion in Story mode.

Play As Camera Guy

Get a 100% completion in Story mode.

Play As Chlolo

Get a 100% completion in Story mode.

Play As Barber

Complete all Skate Ranch missions and collect all43 Skate Ranch pieces.

Play As Carnival Worker

Complete all Skate Ranch missions and collect all43 Skate Ranch pieces.

Play As Dogtown Guy

Complete all Skate Ranch missions and collect all43 Skate Ranch pieces.

Play As French Man

Complete all Skate Ranch missions and collect all43 Skate Ranch pieces.

Play As Iggy

Successfully complete Story mode under the normaldifficulty setting.

Play As Little John

Successfully complete Story mode under the normaldifficulty setting.

Play As Dogtown Guy 2

Get a 100% completion in Classic mode.

Play As Graffiti Dude

Get a 100% completion in Classic mode.

Play As Hardhat Worker

Get a 100% completion in Classic mode.

Play As Master Zen

Get a 100% completion in Classic mode.

Play As Mega

Successfully complete Story mode under thehard/sick difficulty setting.

Unlockable Movies

American Wasteland Final Movie: Successfully complete Story mode under the normal difficulty setting.Bails N' Burns Movie 1: Successfully complete Classic mode under the normal difficulty setting.Bails N' Burns Movie 2: Get a 100% completion in Story mode.Dev-Team Skates Movie: Get a 100% completion in Classic mode.

Cheats

Perfect Grind

Enter “GrindXpert” and you will have perfect Grind

All Story Mode Levels Unlocked

Enter JARMIE as a code.

Perfect Manual

Enter “2wheels!” for perfect manual

Look Like Harry Potter

At the cheat menu press Geeky Boy and when you play a game you will look like Harry Potter.

Perfect Skitch

Enter h!tchar!de as a case-sensitive code. Note:The bar will still fill, but you will not fallwhen in the red.

Always Special

Enter uronfire as a case-sensitive code.

Play As Jason Ellis

Enter sirius-DJ as a case-sensitive code. Alternately, successfully complete Story modeunder the normal difficulty setting.

Play As Mat Hoffman

Enter the_condor as a case-sensitive code. Alternately, successfully complete Classic modeunder the hard/sick difficulty setting.

Moon Gravity

Enter 2them00n as a case-sensitive code.

Play As Mindy

Enter “help1nghand” as a case-sensitive code under the options menu to unlock Mindy.

Unlockables

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Easter eggs

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Glitches

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Guides

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Achievements

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I have feelings for a game no one cares about: Legend of Kay Anniversary

I just finished playing The Legend of Kay: Anniversary. 

So basically, this was a game from 2005 that I would have played that crap out of as a kid, expect it was PS2 only (I was a Gamecube kid).

So about a year ago, they remastered it and released it on Wii U. Saw it at GameStop, got serious Ty the Tasmanian Tiger vibes from the box art, and bought it instantly. I had literally no knowledge of this game before then. Never even heard of it, and I don’t think most people have either. But I’m happy to say that I have enjoyed it!

So here comes the part where I needlessly analyze this game that only 6 people have played. 

TONE/WRITING:

The game is about a cat named Kay whose land gets invaded by these nasty rats and gorillas who plan to enslave everyone. Kay, of course, takes it upon himself to stop it. The whole game takes place in a very Asian inspired world of martial arts and Buddhist temples.

But one thing that is striking is that this game is completely tone-deaf with it’s narrative direction. I get the vibe that they are three different departments with three different interpretations of what the story should feel like.

Voice Director/Casting Director: “This is for little kids, so that’s get an 8-year-old to voice our lead hero, and make all the other voices really goofy and cartoony!”

Script Writer: “Let’s go super edgey with this and make our characters swear and make brutal threats of murder and decapitation! Also, add in alcohol.” 

Game Director/Story Director: “Let’s go for a good, balanced tone. One that’s kid friendly, but not goofy and soft. Think 4Kids Ninja Turtles maybe.”

Really though, it seems like no one was one the same page here. You get the feeling that the game wanted to be right-in-the-center tonally, but the voice acting got pulled in the extreme kiddy direction and the dialogue got pulled in the opposite direction.

Seriously, the titular hero, Kay, is voiced but what sounds like a very young child and it’s kinda embarrassing. Then, out of a nowhere, Kay starts swearing (in a very cringey edge-lord way, too) and it’s couldn’t feel more juxtaposed. 

Who thought this was a good idea? Were these guys just riding off the Jak II hype wave? “Jak II was a platformer with swearing and it was successful!”

Maybe Jak II’s darker, humanoid world found a way to get away with it, but the world of Legend Of Kay, with its fuzzy fur-ball characters, just can’t pull it off.

GAMEPLAY

This game really feels straight out of 2005. Definitely from a bygone era. And you know what? It’s an era that I miss. Legend of Kay has what I would expect, and want. It’s a third-person mascot platformer with action and adventure elements. Platforming, powerups, puzzles, combat, combos, exploration, hidden goodies, and a bunch of other things that were standard tropes of the genre in the 2000′s before 3D platformers faded into unjust obscurity (only to be replaced by a tiring barrage of first-person shooters).

The final boss feels exactly the way a final boss should. It’s big, epic, and you feel the that whole game is leading up to it. It’s great sense of excitement when you’re fighting the last boss, and great sense of accomplishment when you beat it. Not saying that modern games don’t do this ever, but it seemed so much more like an unspoken rule back then. It was expected and you were disappointed if it wasn’t there. Over time, I feel like developers tried doing different things for their final boss, perhaps solely for the sake of “avoiding cliches.” 

Let’s talk about combat. I think you can judge a game’s combat system on a “pre-Arkham” and “post-Arkham” scale. This game, of course, is pre-Arkham, and the combat system is pretty unique. 

Basically, if you get some combos going, you enter a new state of combat, where you zip around freely from one foe to the next, simply to how Arkham would do it four years later (and get ridiculous amounts of praise for it). It’s hard to put into words, but there’s definitely an “aha!” moment when you get a feel for the combat. There’s certain flow to it that is almost zen. 

While the combat does get repetitive and is unfair at times, it’s still a neat system that I’d like to see another game try to perfect.

You start with a sword, but you get two other weapons throughout the game: a big fat hammer and a set of Wolverine-esque claws. You be able to upgrade these weapons too, making them stronger which is a nice sense of progression. However, the claws are pretty useless, despite looking really cool. Immediately after you get them, you’ll use them to cut some bamboo and then will likely never see them again. They suck in battle and are less powerful than your standard sword. Why?

Moving on, there are definitely some weird gameplay moments of clunkyness that would have been unacceptable even at the time. For example: If you pull yourself up from a ledge grab on a moving platform, the platform will just move on without you and you’ll “pull” yourself up onto nothing and just fall through thin air. 

There’s also these weird colored diamonds that you can collect to increase your score. But to my knowledge, your score does absolutely nothing. You get no bonus for having a high score. It is literally just a number. Why?

As mentioned earlier, the voice acting is just terrible, and it really hurts how long winded some of the characters can be. At times, they talk just to talk. They don’t say anything of real value. Almost every time you run into enemies, the game stops to give you a “cutscene.” And by “cutscene,” I mean you sit and watch the enemies stand still in a defensive stance while they say five or six lines about how they want to hurt/beat/kill you. 

But in an odd way, part of me likes that. It gets too long and repetitive because it happens nearly every fight, but I like the attempt to make your enemies feel like characters with personalities. 

Speaking of making enemies feel more real, Legend of Kay has an interesting obsession with perma-death. Seriously, if you kill an enemy, his corpse will lay there infinitely. You can leave an area, turn off the game, load back up the save, go back to the area, and his body will still be lying right where you killed it. It’s feels more grim that way. In other platformers of the time, you’d kill an enemy and their body would fade out or disappear in smoke. But in Legend of Kay, the perma-death makes you start to feel the weight of your actions. You can’t just kill something and sweep the body away to instantly forget about. Nope, that body will always be there. Dang, that is some heavy stuff for a 2005 platformer.

One last thing. Legend of Kay does something that I hate in video games.  After you beat the game, loading your save file puts you right before the final boss forever. I hate that. I’ve always appreciated it when game will load you back to the hub-world and let you see the world in peace. At the very least, give me a level select list and let me replay levels I didn’t 100%. That brings me to my next point of discussion.

REMASTER:

I get the vibe that this 2015 remaster version had almost zero budget. Seriously, look at the back cover of the box. It looks like it was made in Photoshop in 10 mins. I’m not exaggerating. 

It’s doesn’t look terrible, it just looks like it cost almost nothing to make. This is not the work of a graphic designer. This is one of the programmers making it the day before the game ships.

Look at the text! It’s a plain as it gets.

Compare it to the original 2005 box art.

I didn’t play the original, but I get the vibe that almost no changes were made to the gameplay. Certainly not any big ones. Aside from some up-res’d textures, this the original 2005 Legend of Kay, warts and all. There were a lot of little things here and there that would go a long way into improving the game. Simple things that I’d imagine would be easy fixes. But this ain’t Majora’s Mask on 3DS. This is a graphical fix only.

OVERALL

Overall, I really enjoyed my time with Legend of Kay: Anniversary. It’s not going to happen, but I would love to see a new Ledgend of Kay game in 2017 or sometime in the future. This is a relatively forgotten franchise that I think could use new life. In fact, you could use it’s obscurity to your advantage. The world and characters are already built, but there are hardly any preconceived notions to worry about. 

As much as I hate this word, this experience was “nostalgic” for me in a special way. It’s a game I didn’t play as a kid, but feels 100% like a game I would have played as kid. It was great to take a trip back to 2000′s era gaming without re-playing through a game that I’ve already seen a hundred times. It’s a new experience from an old era. And boy, I do miss that era.

You’re alright, Legend of Kay. You’re alright. 

(Now bring on Yooka-Laylee)