Complete Clue List
Across
1. With 8A: Alt name for the "Suika Game" (2021) by Aladdin X; "The ___ Game" (Split word, first half)
4. 1994 fast food strategy game built on pepperoni & mozzarella (hold the anchovies); "___ Tycoon"
7. 2002 Ubisoft platform game where you can play as Sid (Sloth) or Manny (Mammoth); "___ Age"
8. With 1A: Alt name for the "Suika Game" (2021) by Aladdin X; "The ___ Game" (Split word, 2nd half)
9. The lion in the 2005 game "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"
10. Major UK industrial conglomerate founded in 1886, best known by its acronym
11. 2020 FPS game from Steam based on the battle that birthed Texas; "Member the ___"
14. This will get the blood pumping, a FPS game created by Mundfish; "Atomic ___" (2023)
17. 1984 Hudson Soft game that's almost a side dish; "Princess Tomato in the ___ Kingdom"
20. 2002 racing car for PS2 built around a movie star's action scenes double; "___ Man"
23. With 15D: 2000 VG; "Pajama Sam 3: You Are What ___ from Your Head to Your Feet" (2 words, 1st word)
24. Your chance to use a shinobigatana to slice & dice fruit; "Fruit ___" (2010)
25. Activity in the RPG "Kingdom Come: Deliverance" (2018), you rebuild the sword of the Queen of ___
26. Annoyed grunt echoed by Homer Simpson in various games in the franchise
27. 1986 Namco arcade game where you are Runner and you must "traverse" the game; "Metro ___"
28. Finger lickin' treat from Psyop, 2019 dating sim; "___ You, Colonel Sanders!" (Two words 1,4)
Down
1. "Crash Bandicoot's" favourite fruit and a common object in the series; ___ Fruit
2. Primary antagonist in the 2022 RPG "Horizon Forbidden West"; ___ Van Der Meer
3. Sounds like a Beatle, 2018 beat 'em up game for Windows; "The Friends of ___ Ishikawa"
4. The head of Mushroom Kingdom in the "Mario" franchise; Princess ___ Toadstool
5. Apples are a key cooking ingredient in 2019's "The Legend of ___: Breath of the Wild"
6. Plays Pepsiman in "The Angry Video Game Nerd: Pepsiman" (PS1) (2019); Xander ___
12. A persistent pest to dogs in this 1982 arcade game; "The Amazing Adventures of Mr. F. ___"
13. 1989 Komani arcade game, about a Green Beret who can't be found (Acronym)
15. With 23A: 2000 VG; "Pajama Sam 3: You Are What ___ from Your Head to Your Feet" (2 words, 2nd word)
16. 2000 game by Blitz based on a Mel Gibson animated film, same year; "Chicken ___"
17. Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik is the main antagonist in this Sega franchise; "___ the Hedgehog"
18. Playable character in "Star Wars: Battlefront" (2012); ___ Calrissian
19. Groups of 2 people eg husbands & wives. Answer is plural but in singular it's a PS3 game from 2012
20. Japanese rice dish to the fore in this tasty Nintendo treat; "___ Strike: The Way of Sushido" (2018)
21. The game development dept. for Mater Machina (France) or the 1993 LP by Nirvana; "In ___"
22. Another word for a preview or trailer of a new game