My Favourite Game James Carter

The Snakehips producer on bizarre multiformat setups, pining for local mutliplayer, and the surprising appeal of golf games.

James Carter is one half of electronic duo Snakehips, which he formed with Oliver Lee after the pair met on a business trip to Hong Kong. Snakehips found early success after posting remixes on Soundcloud, and since then the duo’s profile has spiralled rapidly.

When did you first get into games?

I think I got the original Game Boy, and one of the Super Mario games with it – I can’t remember which one. I was pretty young at the time, and I remember that my parents only allowed me one hour each evening to play on it. I used to try and lock myself in the bathroom to get a little bit longer. It was worse because you couldn’t save on it, so I had to get as far as I could in the game each night, and then start again the next time. It was an absolute nightmare actually. After that I got a PC, and I used to buy… Well, to be honest, go into newsagents and pinch the demo discs from all the PC gaming mags. They’d be full of freeware games and demos. Then I got a demo of Duke Nukem 3D, and it was my first ever FPS, and I loved it. Somehow I managed to persuade my parents to buy me that.

Were you allowed to play for more than an hour?