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Let’s Play! Light Cycle

It’s been an age since I had a Friday Let’s Play! Before I’d even heard of Tron, or seen another one of the 8962398146238 game clones of the Tron Light Cycle sequence, I had this – Light Cycle (Light Cycles … Continue reading

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Behold – the NESurrection

Dug out the NES the other week to record some more stuff for Game Over, Yeah!! but it wasn’t working. The PSU was shot, so I bought a new one from consolegoods.co.uk. I was sceptical because the NES needs a 9V … Continue reading

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Let’s Play! Daley Thompson’s Decathlon

Remember Daley Thompson? He was that guy in the 80s who was always in the Olympics. Who was reasonably good. And had AWESOME facial hair. Like a brush, it was. Well, in gaming circles, he was known for his ability … Continue reading

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Let’s Play! Hunchy

In the 80s, whenever a new, popular, game came out twenty million other white rappe…uh games that were the same appeared. Also, back in the 80s, it was quite common for us kids to think the real game was actually … Continue reading

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Games I Hate: Donkey Kong 64

Until the release of the technically fantastic, utterly huge, and gloriously lovely to look at Donkey Kong 64 for the Nintendo 64, I was a big fan of Rare’s stuff. Or at least, I thought I was. I mean, I did … Continue reading

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Toot Toot Sonic Warrior

Sonic CD is coming to XBLA and PSN in just a few short weeks. Which is awesome, because it is awesome. And fiftyquagillion times more exciting than Sonic Generations coming out for the 360 and PS3 tomorrow. Why? Well, there’s … Continue reading

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Let’s Play! The Steelyard Blues

That Harry S Price was a card, wasn’t he? Ripping off loads of Spectrum games, altering their graphics, selling the game on as his own. Nawty. One of these game was The Steelyard Blues. Which I loved, until only a … Continue reading

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ZX Spectrum Nyan Cat

Nyan Cat in glorious 8 bit!

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Let’s Play! Valhalla

This came up in a conversation on ugvm this week (in Tuesday’s A-Z of Games thread, under V, obviously) and generally although people remembered it nobody had a clue what to do. Lets see if we can fix that, yes? … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday, Sonic the Hedgehog

Happy 20th birthday, Sonic! Not that you can hear me, being a) fictional, and b) dead. Dead to me at least, with Sega’s stream of memory-raping crapbaskets they call Sonic games. I’ve done all that before. Moaned about Sonic games. … Continue reading

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