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Trigger Happy 

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encompass a far wider and more creative range of 
subjects, from gardening to schoolday romance. 

Role-playing elements are creeping crabwise into 

any number of other genres, as a way of bolting on a 
framework of narrative drive to the old repetitive game 
style. Even arcade-style driving game par excellence 
Ridge Racer: Type 4 (1999) is an RPG, in that the 
player is required to complete a full Grand Prix set of 
races with a particular team manager, who comments 
on your performance and reveals his or her own 
fictional preoccupations. And ever more complex 
roleplaying games will be possible with the increased 
storage and visual capacities of future hardware. Sega’s 
fabulously ambitious Shenmue (2000), which chooses 
the 1980s as a historical period so that the characters 
wear leather blousons and acidwashed blue jeans, 
points the way forward. And Japanese software giant 
Namco has set up a whole department dedicated to 
producing RPGs for the PlayStation2. From the genre’s 
trollish beginnings, wonderful things may yet emerge. 

 

While playing videogames may not constitute an 

intellectual pursuit, they do challenge the mind in a