Intro Ninjas eh? You couldn’t move for ’em in the 80s, they were everywhere. If you chucked a shuriken in a computer games shop back then, as well as a lifetime ban and a criminal […]
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Month: January 2025
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Peddling in the ‘Cades?
I fondly recall the days of heading to the arcade on my bike with a pocket full of quarters seeking out excitement! Whether it was taking up the role as a vigilante and fending off […]
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Jail Breaking Ghosts and Slaps
I just took part in a Jail Break. It was very traumatic and I murdered many innocents but it’s OK, I was a cop so its allowed (bit political?). Of course I am talking the fictional video game Jail Break of which I just recieved the PCB from my good buddy Pinge.
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Land Down Under
A young man’s first experience trapped in a cavern with terrifying balls and dripping acid can’t be all that bad can it?
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Fox ‘n’ Blocks
Intro “Fox on the run, you scream and everybody comes a-running”, so sang glam rock gods The Sweet in their 1975 hit, however in this game you won’t quite be doing much running but you’ll […]
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Scramble RX
A few days ago I had another ZX Spectrum stream over on Twitch. This time I dedicated its entirety to both new and old games including Scramble RX by HappyCodingZX aka Alan Turvey of Midnight Brew (links below).
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Gilligan’s Mine
Plot Some games have epic storylines that see you saving the planet, exploring fantasy landscapes or cleaning up a mansion full of items after an epic night on the sauce. What we have here however […]
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The Allure of Copper
I was asked recently, again, why I prefer real hardware over any type of emulation. My answer as always was varied and detailed, pertaining to mostly the look and feel
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Black and White
Plot If you’re a Ghostbuster, you don’t cross the streams; if you own a Gremlin, you don’t feed it after midnight and if you are a Robocop, you protect the innocent, serve the public trust […]
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Dungeons of Gomilandia
Gominolo is having one of those days. You know the ones, like when you think things are going just great then the rug is pulled out from under you and you realise that instead of having repelled an invading army, they’ve tricked you by trapping you in a hellish dungeon.