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Happy Birthday Sega Saturn

Posted on July 8, 2017 by Alex

8 July 1995 saw the Saturn launch in PAL territories, including the UK. Happy birthday to one of my favourite consoles. The Saturn though for me was a little like John Carpenter’s The Thing, unappreciated at the time but in … Continue reading →

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My letter, was only the start of it…

Posted on May 6, 2017 by Alex

Fortunately, given that he turned out to be the paedophile from hell, I never wrote in to Jim’ll Fix It for him to make my dreams come true. It’s probably for the best really. I did think it was funny … Continue reading →

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Dungeon Master on the Atari ST

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Alex

This is the one. This is probably my favourite game of all time ever. There are other games I’ve spent longer playing- Championship Manager being the one that springs immediately to mind- but I don’t think there is a game … Continue reading →

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The world of magazines

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Alex

There are still a few video game magazines that shift some issues in print, Edge and Retrogamer are the two that immediately spring to mind to me, but by and large it’s now mostly online sites. It makes sense of … Continue reading →

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Gauntlet on the Atari ST

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Alex

Red Elf shot the food! And a huge punch up ensued between my younger brother and me. It was 1987, I was 12, he was ten, and he wasn’t happy as that proclamation had been preceded by Blue Warrior needs food…badly!*  … Continue reading →

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Populous on the Atari ST

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Alex

1989. What a year. Batman returned to the cinema after a 33 year hiatus, considerably less camp but no less peculiar, I was 14, hormonal, covered in spots and in love. With Populous on the Atari ST as well as … Continue reading →

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Moving from a C64 to an Atari ST

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Alex

As I’ve said before, I was late to the Commodore 64. It’s early days were well behind it when I bought mine. This was good in some ways; there were already established budget brands that weren’t just churning out rubbish … Continue reading →

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1986 and all that

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Alex

From reading our game play throughs, you would be forgiven in thinking I spent every single waking hour I wasn’t at school sat in front of a computer in the 80’s. That wasn’t really the case though, mostly because the … Continue reading →

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Delta on Commodore 64

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Alex

Our brief sojourn with the Commodore 64 comes to an end with Thalamus’ Delta. Delta was one of the handful of games that Thalamus released between 1986 and 1991. At the time I didn’t realise the controversy that their games … Continue reading →

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California Games on Commodore 64

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Alex

We started off this week by having a look across Epyx broad span of “Games”- Winter Games, Summer Games and California Games. After some deliberation we decided on California Games because it had that cooler vibe that Sam seemed to … Continue reading →

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