Homemade video game 'Hunter Forever' makes 2008 top ten list in Time Magazine

A 21-year-old computer whiz who created an on-the-cheap Flash video game - Hunter Forever on his home PC has hit the big time in the gaming world - the No. 8 spot on Time magazine's list of the top-10 releases of 2008, alongside such blockbuster titles as Grand Theft Auto IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Gears of War 2.

"I was reading through this gaming blog, like I do normally, and I'm going over the top 10 games looking for the ones I expected to see on there, and all of a sudden I said ‘wait - that title looks really familiar,'" says Evan Miller, a fourth-year student in the interactive arts and technology program at Simon Fraser University.

"I was thinking, how did they manage to mistype some other game that badly? Then I realized. I spent the next couple of hours in a state of shock, pretty much - not being able to believe it. I was so dazed I didn't even tell my parents until the next day."

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