Amy N

"Are youuuu sure you reaaally want to quit me?" 🎶

When a game serenades you in the hopes of just one more go.

📺: 3Wiz!, Apple Macintosh, 1993

Ahh, Busou Renkin's OP always gets me fired up! I need to go back and re-watch the anime one of these days...

Ahh, Busou Renkin's OP always gets me fired up! I need to go back and re-watch the anime one of these days...

More #Gladiators nonsense from that CD collection : did you know that the classic Eliminator theme has lyrics? Well it does!

… terrible, terrible lyrics. 😅

The poor vocalist aims for something like a Rocky soundtrack a la Survivor but is saddled with lines like “Another net, for you to climb!” …

If you say the words "No spoilers" and the next word out of your mouth is "but" then I should be legally allowed to fire you into the sun.

I didn’t know old Enid had a VHS player… 😅

Four CDs from the original 90s series of Gladiators

Afternoon #Gladiators crew! I thought I’d dig out my classic series CD collection - there’s the official soundtrack for the first two series, and a couple of single releases. The albums have all of the event themes, plus the arena rock songs from the likes of Queen and Thin Lizzy. 😁

Wikipedia famously gives zero fucks about spoiler warnings though. Those character rundowns often say “Bob (Joe Bloggs), the chief navigator in season 2 who replaces Alice after her horrible demise”

This instant one would probably have more sugar, but if you make basic porridge (oatmeal) it’s very healthy - it’s mostly complex carbohydrates and fibre which take a long time to digest compared to breakfast cereals. And you can add anything to it, like fruit or honey for flavour.

They evoke the old Amiga demoscene and their music was amazing too, I get nostalgic for several of the menu themes from the OPM demos!

Oh you know the worst thing recently? It's typing the name of a character into Google and having the first search suggestion be "[character] death scene". All I wanted to know was who played them! 😡

Also seen in Mario Land 2, you can wander right up to Wario’s castle on the map screen at the start but you don’t have any coins.

It’s interesting how Gen 1 relies on a lot of genre conventions (like event flags, or even just turn-based combat) that are clear to people who’ve played a lot of RPGs, but its target audience may not have experienced them at all and it doesn’t really make allowances for that until later gens.

YouTube video by ThisIsPete PAF! It's ASTERIX for Sega Master System!

As a kid, I was always salty that Konami's excellent Asterix arcade game never made it home in some form. If I'd had a Sega Master System, I could have been playing this game, though, which is great in its own right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtni...

I'm happy to announce that I am a curator on a huge preservation website! Which one? The photo tells all! Or you can ask me outside here.

I now can preserve games that are super hard to find online for others to download and enjoy!

I got A LOT of game ideas for that too!

“Ho ho ho! I arrive!”

Quina may be a strange looking, androgynous, frog-eating, fork-wielding… person, but s/he definitely knows how to make an entrance!

#FF9

My boy Mankey! One of the best additions from Yellow was being able to catch one before Pewter, to help out unfortunate Charmander lovers everywhere… 😁

I've never been to a Gladiators taping, but I have been to see Michael McIntyre's Big Show being recorded! We were at the Christmas special back in 2019 (in November of course) - things on stage go roughly as they do on TV but all the live music acts are recorded twice to get a range of angles!

Michael McIntyre heralds the end of another round of Gladiators, but I'll be back next week for the last quarter-final!

Thanks as always to the wonderful Bsky #Gladiators live commentary crew - love you all! ❤️

Look at that! Another win from behind as Shaun skips up the Travelator to take victory.

(Maybe Mo having to actually compete in Duel and the Edge wore him out a bit? 😛) #gladiators

Crumbs, Shaun is having a bit of a nightmare quarter-final isn't he? #gladiators

I'd call it a game of cat and mouse but at 5'8" Millie's definitely not a mouse! Sabre got her in the end though... 😄 #gladiators

Phantom needs to be renamed One-Punch Man after that! #gladiators

She did a twirl!

Now I'm curious: Mo was definitely making use of the sides of the gauntlet to push through back there, so getting ejected by one of the gladiators wasn't exactly unexpected! #gladiators

I think we needed a "can't help but score" event like Gauntlet after the first two. The new events are very all-or-nothing! #gladiators

That's why Brad & Barney always wear the same suits, isn't it?

Helena's smile as she stumbles through the wall of blocks... 😄

Can't believe it claimed Millie too! #gladiators

With Shaun facing Giant, are we going to see a clean sweep for the Glads in Everest for the first time? #gladiators

Good to see Shaun back, as the fastest runner-up - and the 90s connection is always welcome, they don't often mention the classic series directly!

Not too sure about self-picked nicknames though... 😆
#gladiators