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One of increasingly few writers that writes well about interesting old games, many off the well-worn beaten track. Games you’ve played and games you should play.

Articulate, knowledgeable and coming from a place of passion for our great hobby.

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If things like Fortnite are the future of games, you can count me out.

I’ve had a PS5 since launch, and I’ll never get used to the way you put a disc in that thing…

I don’t care what you say, Hitman Absolution is a great game and I’m happy to see it added to Switch.

I played that shite on the ZX Spectrum. Imagine painting a wall in monochrome.

Sullying my Switch 2

A classic.

Seems about right.

Although I’m struggling to think what SNES games I’ve played that would have taken me over that 100 hour mark…

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Now we’re talking. Another Namco System 22 game this week: Tokyo Wars.

Not sure it’ll have the legs of a Ridge Racer or even an Air Combat, but I will be partaking when it comes out on Switch tomorrow.

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A four frame comic about Captain Torture. The first frame shows the sign "BREAKING NEWS" and the drawing of a man, with the words "CAPTAIN TORTURES PASSES AWAY" near him. The second frame shows a journalist holding a mic, as she says "A controversial and divisive figure, Captain torture will be remembered for his key role in history." The News title is "Mourning day for Captain-". The third frame shows three posts on social media. The first one is by a man called Paul James @Paulitician. He writes: "I didn't always agree with Captain Torture but he sure was a man who believed in something." The second post by James Paul @Avegetable reads: "I pay my respects to Captain Torture and his family. His heart was in the right place- with our country." The third post is by SonicVomit @SonicBleh , and reads "HE TORTURED PEOPLE". The fourth frame shows an interview on TV. An angry man on the right is saying: "Let me tell you something, Jen. I think it's SICK to celebrate Captain Torture's death. These people should be LOCKED UP, and also tortured-". The news below says: "Every president on earth pays homage-".

Captain Torture

I’ve just found out that gamers call the old Castlevania games (the ones before they started ripping off Metroid) “Classicvanias”.

And they say it with a straight face, too.

Gamers are the worst.

I agree.

Zelda should be set in a new world every time, that was it whole thing before BotW - seeing the same cast of characters, in different setups, telling the same story in different ways.

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Have they capitalised the “O” of Origins on Nintendo Switch? That’s all I care about 😂

Taste the Difference from Sainsbury’s, on sale 50% off. Trying to get us hooked on the good stuff early!

First mince pie of the season.

Ban fireworks.

This is horrific.

But, really, have the Oliver Twins ever done anything that we could call “good” outside of the ZX Spectrum Dizzy games? Personally, I don’t think so.

They’ve been dining out on Dizzy for nearly 40 years.

I think you’ve got the Oliver Twins mixed up with the Darling brothers.

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Now do the rest of them.

Quite into this. Might have to treat myself for the weekend.

The review in this month’s Edge sold it to me (despite some comparisons to Undertale, the most inexplicably overrated game of the last 20 years).

The fact we’re even asking this is why I don’t go to the cinema anymore.

I know they were out of power for 14 years, but the complete lack of any political nouse from top to bottom in the Labour Party is breathtaking.

And I’m fine with that.

We’re never getting a new Animal Crossing.

Can’t wait to get stuck in tonight.

Yeah, agreed.

I found the post, looks like they blocked me 🤷

I asked them directly about it, and they claimed some issues with getting the licenses (a post on here that they’ve now conveniently seemed to have deleted)

Personally I think that’s utter bullshit and it’s much more likely that they didn’t even try/think about it until people like us called it out

Microsoft’s Azure down today, Amazon AWS down last week. Causing chaos both times.

Just a thought, but maybe we shouldn’t have let two massive corporations run all of the world’s internet?