Phil Bennett

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Happy Bonfire Night! Be safe.

youtu.be/On9X-s2caOI

Bran FIBRE

It's that accursed California gravity

It’s called prolonged scary face and I’m afraid he has terminal silly

It looks like the PCX2 is used solely for its PCI interface, with the I-O DATA chip hooked up via the GPIO port. Good way to use up all the unwanted PCX2s!

In my day, it was Jason Donovan

Screenshot of Driller

Screenshot of Dark Side

I have been overcoming my childhood fear of the Freescape games by playing Driller and Dark Side (the primitive 3D graphics and sound were nightmare inducing!)

Looks like it's an InfoWindow 4055 display; possibly P/N 8575150?

IBM PS/2 Model 30, monitor and LaserDisc player on a cart

Close-up of the monitor

An interesting IBM PS/2 Model 30 + LaserDisc player setup in S6E13 of St. Elsewhere. Apparently this is the DxTer Clinical Simulator system, developed by Intelligent Images Inc.

Does anybody recognize the monitor? It appears to be a touchscreen.

Very accurate; glad to see it wasn't just me...

Alone in the Dark (DOS, 1992): The ghostly, static dancers in the ballroom that when bumped, turn into invincible, droning, coloured spheres of death that chase you around the mansion and insta-kill you when you inevitably get stuck on a door frame.

Toonstruck screenshot: Malevolands town center

Toonstruck screenshot: Arrival at Zanydu

Toonstruck screenshot: cutscene of a clown about to pop a balloon animal

Toonstruck screenshot: cutscene of Drew and Flux in trouble

Just completed 1996's Toonstruck. I can't believe I slept on it this long! Beautifully made, with well-thought-out, challenging puzzles, loads of charm and of course, the wonderful Christopher Lloyd. Pity about the abrupt ending (see also the game's horrific financial failure and cancelled sequel).

Galaxian 3: Project Revival Introduction During the late 1980s, Namco set out to create the world’s largest arcade game. The result was Galaxian3: Project Dragoon; a 28 player behemoth that debuted in April 1990 at the …

As promised, here's the write-up of the Galaxian 3 repair effort:

philwip.com/galaxian-3-p...

No, I’m back in California now.

Thank you. It will be investigated but I can’t give an ETA for a fix.

The Galaxian 3 at Fun World is unfortunately experiencing technical issues not unusual of a 30+ year old machine. To avoid disappointment, I recommend holding off on any road trips to play the machine for now until the problem is resolved.

Perhaps you could post a video or photo?

In the same manner as before?

"What is this place?"
"Keep your eyes peeeeeeeeeeled!"

There was an intermittent problem with the left LaserDisc player which we believe has been addressed. Everything was working again as of this evening.

Yes, unfortunate. We’re looking into it.

Galaxian 3 exterior

Inside the game, showing Attack of the Zolgear title

Inside the game, showing Galaxian 3 title.

The Galaxian 3: Attack of the Zolgear at Fun World, Nashua, NH is up and running again with all six players! This is the only known working installation in the US.

I’m very proud to have been part of the repair effort. Look out for the full story on philwip.com soon

Ooh, the antioxidants!

Seems to be mostly a reupload of what's on arcarc.xmission.com and arcade-museum.com

A GMC Envoy XL with DEPUTY DAWG written in white tape across the entirety of the rear window.

This is/was unquestionably the best car in Arcata

Interesting choice. Did Quantel use the Transputer in other applications?

It's gone

I scanned a bumper crop of arcade game schematics:

Battle Lane Vol. 5
Beast Busters
Castle of Dragon
Dead Angle
Final Lap 2+3 video board
Halley's Comet
Mechanized Attack
Rambo III
R-Type II
Steel Gunner 1+2 video board
Suzuka 8 Hours 1+2 video board
Tiger Heli

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YouTube video by CentralSouth5 Bounce Chunks Dog Food advert

Ooh, let's see:

* Carling... Black Label!
* For mash get Smash
* They're tasty tasty, very very tasty, they're very tasty (Kellog's Bran Flakes)

I also still remember the exact words to this dog food ad:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfDu...