Crickey, 25 years ago the Sega Genesis launched in the US. That can’t be right, surely? It is? I feel old. Growing up, we didn’t see much in the way of import Genesis titles, but from the ones we did Read More …
Author: Fatnick
Night Trap is on Kickstarter?
This probably shouldn’t come as a massive surprise, but Night Trap now has its own HD Kickstarter. I don’t know how I feel about this. As much as people complain about Kickstarter rapidly becoming a dumpling ground for retro gubbins, Night Trap is an important Read More …
Review A Bad Game Day 2014: Give My Regards To Broadstreet
Is it that time of year already? four months ago we looked at a truly great game, so now it’s time to look at something utterly dreadful. Blimey. My nomination for this year’s review a bad game day is 1985 Spectrum title “Give My Regards Read More …
Unreleased Spectrum Game turns up 24 Years Later. On eBay.
Well this is the stuff that (weird retro gamer’s) dreams are made of: Virgin Games’ supposedly unreleased Judge Dredd Spectrum game has turned up. On eBay. For £3.99 plus postage. It was posted in a thread over at the World Of Spectrum, which contains both the Read More …
Goodness Gracious
Ellie Goulding’s track basically sounded like a Megadrive game already…so I went the extra mile and remade it in FM Drive. It’s available as a free download from soundcloud!
Megadrive Hard Drivin’: A Defence
The internet community’s a funny old thing isn’t it? In the old days, the only options you had for judging a game’s overall popularity were ELSPA charts and magazine reviews . Nowadays, even the most obscure titles have fan pages, gamefaqs entries and Youtube videos. Read More …
New Track: Goodness Gracious
While having an incredibly dance-ready toddler often has its down-sides (especially in public,) one of the upsides is that I’m forced to to listen to a lot of music I wouldn’t necessarily hear by choice. One track I’ve taken a particular shine to is Ellie Read More …
DRUMS!
I’ve had a few people ask me how I produced the drums Modulated Frequencies (you know, that track you can see over on the right? Why don’t you listen to it? Go on!) It’s always incredibly lovely to have feedback, but unfortunately I don’t really Read More …
Why Wasn’t it released Here: Chase HQ II
Maybe its just me, but there’s few gaming things more exciting than an import-only game. From the feeling exclusivity, to the illicitness of owning something you were never supposed to own, nothing quite beats it. It does beg the question though: why weren’t these games Read More …
Modulated Frequencies
The first release from my upcoming E.P. Modulated Frequencies, This Jazzy-fusion track mixes live guitar, bass and drums with the rich FM tones of the Yamaha YM2612 sound chip found in the Sega Megadrive. Preview Stream/Buy
Lots o New Stuff
Blimey! I haven’t updated that much over the last couple of months have I? The reason for that it because I’ve been (surprise surprise) really busy. With a few things too. Aside from all the boring worky kind of stuff, I’ve been fixing my recording Read More …
The Other Outruns
As we’ve already established, I like Outrun. Probably to an unhealthy extent. In fact, not only do I love the original arcade Outruns (in all their many ports and guises) but I even love the weird and widely ignored console-only Outrun games as well. Hurrah! Read More …
Happy Review a Great Game Day!
Hello, If you’ve just arrived here from the RAGGD site, thank you for taking the time to read my review. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, have a look here: http://reviewagreatgameday.com On a slightly self-promotional note, I do chip tunes! You can check Read More …
Review a Great Game Day 2014: Hijack
Do you remember Review A Great Game Day 2013? No? That’s ok. It was a while ago (a year, in fact) and a lot has happened in the interim. So then Last year, I chose to review the rather tremendous Speccy Beat ’em up Target Read More …
Work in Progress
Generally I don’t release works in progress, but I’m really loving Aly James Lab’s Super PSG plug-in and I wanted to show you the amazing Spectrum-style Buzzer sound you can get out of it. Pretty Impressive, Eh? https://soundcloud.com/mechafatnick/speccy-demo
Outrun: The Spectrum Ports
Its cold, its wet, its nasty and half the country is underwater. There’s only one thing for it: it’s time for an Outrun marathon. Dissapointingly though, Outrun is covered pretty well online. From dedicated fan sites through to socialist analysis theres a staggering amount of material covering almost Read More …
Completions & Game Length
So far this year I have played through just two titles. On the modern front we have Batman Arkham Origins, while on the more classic side of things we have SNES PilotWings. (as an aside, this post has been in my drafts for a couple Read More …
Holy Picture Batman!
Yesterday marked me becoming another year older and another year wiser (though I’m not so sure about the second part. Think i’ll ask for a refund.) To celebrate the occasion, my wife commissioned a rather smashing family portrait: (Little one’s presence is particularly apt. She Read More …
Happy (16-Bit Version)
Things were looking up…so what better track to test out the capabilities of Aly James’ superb FM Drive plugin? Another free download from Soundcloud!
New Year, New Job, New Track!
Ahoy, Happy New Year! Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet, but I’ve recently started a new day job. Hurrah. Unfortunately, the process of finishing job A and starting job B has taken up more time than I anticipated, so I haven’t been around much – Read More …