KNOWLEDGE THIS MONTH
THIS MONTH ON EDGE
Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else
GAME
Spelunky64 bit.ly/spelunky64
As we write these words, UFO 50 Spelunky. UFO 50’s is finally touching down for the rest of the world to play. And so, with perverse logic, we pick up its funhouse-mirror image: another game from an imagined 1980s, one where Derek Yu and co were making games contemporaneously to their UFO Soft alter egos. It’s worth the price of entry ($2.99 and the effort of getting a Commodore 64 emulator up and running) just to see see how this game has been squeezed into the console’s 64K memory, and its control reworked for the single-button joystick, and what developer Paul Koller has decided can – and cannot – be lost in the process. But once that novelty wears off, what remains is the incredible moreishness of A reminder, as with the finest cuts from collection, that design trumps tech every time.