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| Nov 30, 2011 12:21 (Nov 30, 2011 12:21) |
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Even More consoles!
Made my second visit to Retro Station this week I picked up 2 more consoles. Firstly got myself a lovely Megadrive 2 complete in box with extra controller and Mega Games 1 and secondly picked [...] |
| Nov 11, 2011 11:17 (Nov 11, 2011 11:17) |
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Need more space!
As my collection grows, I am finding it increasing difficult to find a space for everything and now I find the collection has extended beyond my game cupboard! I tried saving a bit of space b [...] |
| Nov 11, 2011 11:08 (Nov 11, 2011 11:08) |
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Another Console
Yesterday I had a bit of a clear out in my game cupboard and got together all my doubles to make a bit of space. Took them all down to Retro Station in Sutton Coldfield and ended up picking u [...] |
| Aug 11, 2011 13:20 (Aug 11, 2011 13:20) |
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Banjo Kazooie up the wazooie?
Leading on from my recent entry about kiddie games, I've moved onto my first 'high end' kiddie title - Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. I've only just started it but the quality improvement from th [...] |
| Aug 3, 2011 13:16 (Aug 3, 2011 13:16) |
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Kids games - not that bad....really!
Well my youngest is now over 2 and I won't play the likes of Fallout and Crysis 2 in front of him - I stopped a while back but when I was playing the other day I blew up some robot and heard a litt [...] |
| Jun 7, 2011 10:23 (Jun 7, 2011 10:23) |
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Nintendo 3DS eShop Update - first impressions
Maybe I was expecting a bit more from Nintendo’s E-shop on the 3DS – after downloading the update this morning I can only say I feel a little underwhelmed about the store so far.Yes, yo [...] |
| May 15, 2011 19:17 (May 15, 2011 19:17) |
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How the ZX Spectrum nearly wasn't!
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?Of course you’re not. Why, that’d be crazy talk.But what if you proposed that the ZX Spectrum was the result of a botched enterprise? We love you, Cl [...] |
| May 9, 2011 20:19 (May 9, 2011 20:19) |
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| May 1, 2011 11:38 (May 1, 2011 11:38) |
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Redemption Denied?
Doom - one of the greatest games ever, blew my socks clean off and I have yet to find them. Ever since Doom the FPS has been one of my favoured genres of gaming. Some of the more memorable ones (in [...] |
| Apr 16, 2011 20:40 (Apr 16, 2011 20:40) |
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Spectrum Memories Part 8
I bought a +2 in March 1990 and for a while I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. My 48k+ model had started to become increasingly tetchy as had its cassette player with games either [...] |
| Feb 14, 2011 22:19 (Feb 14, 2011 22:19) |
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Spectrum Memories Part 7
Shooters were the genre of choice for many a Speccy owners. You could keep your platformers, strategy titles and racing games; we just wanted to shoot, shoot and shoot!From the very beginning vid [...] |
| Feb 3, 2011 21:39 (Feb 3, 2011 21:39) |
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Spectrum Memories Part 6
Film licenses hugely varied in quality on the Spectrum; obviously the desire to squeeze huge Hollywood blockbusters onto a meagre 48k meant results could be anything from superb to disastrous.&nbs [...] |
| Jan 25, 2011 23:25 (Jan 25, 2011 23:25) |
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Spectrum Memories Part 5
Codemasters - Absolutely Brilliant!The Codies came late to the Spectrum party with their first games released in early 1987. They were an instant hit in no small part to the price: all their titl [...] |
| Jan 20, 2011 10:40 (Jan 20, 2011 10:40) |
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In honour of the fallen Bizarre Creations
With the sad news of Bizarre Creations being thrown to the wolves, I thought I'd honour them by posting my mini review for their mighty Geometry Wars on XBLA:Geometry Wars - XBLAI don’t like [...] |
| Jan 19, 2011 19:43 (Jan 19, 2011 19:43) |
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Spectrum Memories Part 4
Budget Re-releasesWe're not talking Playstation platinum here, where re-released games still cost a pocket-money busting 20 quid. These were proper budget prices!As the Spectrum entered the beginn [...] |
| Jan 10, 2011 17:52 (Jan 10, 2011 17:52) |
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Xbox Kinect - Demon Seed meets HAL9000?
So with a lucky post Christmas win on the footy I found myself with a nice little stash of money to spend on myself, I bit the bullet and bought a Kinect gubbins for my 360. Now I have never played [...] |
| Dec 30, 2010 23:40 (Dec 30, 2010 23:40) |
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Spectrum Memories Part 3
Crash Magazine December and Christmas Special Issues, Winter 1986I read all three of the three main Sinclair Spectrum magazines, devouring each page of reviews, letters, previews and other assorted [...] |
| Dec 30, 2010 11:13 (Dec 30, 2010 11:13) |
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2010 and beyond!
So 2010 is slowly coming to a close and here I am, at my desk at the office, writing a small blog to pass away the hours before I can get away with going home - probably about 4pm, a time when no-o [...] |
| Dec 22, 2010 21:44 (Dec 22, 2010 21:44) |
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Spectrum Memories Part 2
Most early Spectrum games came in the regular single cassette box. Well, why wouldn't they? The box did it's job, held the cassette and an instructions inlay that could be folded several tim [...] |
| Dec 17, 2010 20:19 (Dec 17, 2010 20:19) |
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Spectrum Memories Part 1
Spectrum Memories Part 1: The first SpectrumI still to this day don't know where my Spectrum 48k+ bundle that I received for Christmas 1986 came from. It could have been Dixons. Or WH Smith [...] |
| Dec 11, 2010 20:50 (Dec 11, 2010 20:50) |
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What Doom did for gaming
Doom – The true beginning of modern gaming genealogy A handful of 3.5” floppy disks, a screen burned and seriously stained monitor and a PC that didn’t smell quite right and sound [...] |
| Dec 10, 2010 09:30 (Dec 10, 2010 09:30) |
koopa42 |
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Throw away games/gaming
Well Christmas is nearly here, time to man up and tidy through the mountain of games in the front room in preperation for decorations, heart attack food and alcohol. Just looking at my pile of sham [...] |
| Dec 9, 2010 11:43 (Dec 9, 2010 11:43) |
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My blog of Doom
Yo' I have decided to give this blog thing a go. I did have one on google blogs or some other gubbins like that but stopped after realising only 3 people were reading it (including myself) but it w [...] |
| Nov 26, 2010 11:47 (Nov 26, 2010 11:47) |
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It's gone a little cold...
The site has gone through a bit of a lull of late – but that is not to say that it has closed or gone into hibernation for the winter. Life sometimes gets in the way of the things you really [...] |
| Sep 14, 2010 11:13 (Sep 14, 2010 11:13) |
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I've been away, but now i'm back
Hello people, Sorry i've been away for so long but I got a new job. Finally getting into the games industry working for Realtime Worlds.Now, as many of you may have heard, Realtime Worlds went [...] |
