Another round-up post, I’m afraid! Batman: Arkham City (PC) Despite the hassle it is to set up (all those cables and adapters and begging Windows to let audio go out the HDMI port please), and the fact it’s a PC game, I’m still enjoying it. It feels like driving a car when you know one of the wheels is going to fall off at some point. You enjoy the ride, but are on edge that at some point you could …
Did I mention a while ago that I had a new section on my website? I launched a project I’m calling “Game Over, Yeah!!“, with the premise being I play a game until I lose my first life. Of course, I record it and then upload it for you all to “enjoy”. Well, since then I’ve uploaded a billion* more videos! Most recently… Space Channel 5 (PS2) Freddy Hardest (Spectrum) Great Giana Sisters (C64) Why not have a look? *Actual …
Back in the 90s, Channel 4 in the UK would sometimes show strange animated short films from abroad. I think they were part of some animation festival or something. This game immediately put be in mind of one of those. It’s a weird, nonsensical, abstract cartoon but it’s also a point and click adventure game. There’s no (recognisable) speech. Little in the way of explicit instruction, no narration, and certainly no explanation to the events. But it works! Assembling the …
Please note that my NES PC is not for sale One day, I stumbled across the website www.mini-itx.com, and was amazed at some of the things people built a mini-itx motherboard into. These tiny (170x170mm) boards had been crammed into toasters, pictureframes, oil cans, breadbins and all sorts. One of them caught my eye – a Nintendo NES console. “I can do that!”, I thought. Very soon, the parts had been ordered – one EPIA-800 mini-itx board, a 55W laptop …
