My Favourite Game James Carter

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

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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?