Whatever you do – don't rage-quit and lob a controller 🎮 at the TV. It gets expensive!
A Far Cry from paradise... OK, down to the willy waving of PC gaming, the PC arms race (my Pentium 4 was better than your Athlon 64), the master race of not playing games on a controller and swearing by mouse and keyboard. Who out there, back in 2004 managed to max out Far Cry … Continue reading Far Cry – Jack the lad…
Anybody can do a cartridge... Everyone has had one of these days, a day that sees you totally hacked of with the way the higher echelons of management treat you. No recognition for the work that you've completed, a poor salary compared to the revenue your skill set generates - this was one of those … Continue reading From Computer Arts Incorporated to Active Television which became…
Halloween night, a small American town, fifteen years ago... Now this astounds me - back in 1983 in an era of Steven King, David Cronenberg and terrible slasher movies where the trailer would be narrated by a guy with a deep voice Halloween the video game released for the Atari 2600 VCS. It was so … Continue reading Halloween the video game 1983…
Welcome to the Fantasy Zone... I need some of you to use your imagination on this one, and the rest to really think back to a time before gaming was about watching some dopey blonde titty twitching Call of Duty or some crisp munching dude thinking he is some kind of Fortnite martial arts specialist … Continue reading Couch gaming and food… The camaraderie in a crammed room!
A man chooses, a slave obeys... Over the years there has been some truly epic single player games, and to be honest I have not played a lot of what I wanted to play simply because of two things, money and time. Money firstly - because when new games first come out, as we all … Continue reading Single player games you go back to when you CBA with MP…