Footballer, astronaut, rock and roll star: the holy trinity of dream jobs; the often unachievable aspirations of millions of snot-nosed playground dwellers the world over...

All of us have a friend who has lost his life to a football management sim. Sitting alone in the wee small hours, nothing but a time-worn dressing gown, Sara Lee gateau and toastie maker within arms reach for company, these are a forlorn people...

There’s been a lot of fun had with dystopian future worlds. Most famously, George Orwell’s 1984 dealt with a brutal totalitarian future state monitored by Big Brother.

As long as there are people like Jeremy Clarkson in the world – people who think it’s a good idea to drive a lorry at speed into a brick wall – there will always be a demand for street racing titles.

Animal Crossing first came to life in the guise of Animal Forest on N64 in 2001. Sadly that version never made it to the UK, and gamers had to wait until 2004 for Animal Crossing to finally hit the GameCube.

No matter how many different variations on the theme developers or script-writers can dream up, nobody ever gets bored of zombies.

Launched with the PS3, Resistance: Fall of Man was a big hit for Sony. Based in Britain in 1951, the game told a story of what would happen if the world came under attack from blood-thirsty aliens.

Over the last few years, it has become perfectly acceptable to sit down in front of the TV and listen to someone singing Maria Carey. Badly...

Back in the heady days of the Sega Mega Drive, there was only one game that really laid the smack down, and that game was Mortal Kombat.