Author: Fatnick
Urban
Christmas Noise seems to be becoming a bit of a tradition! At this time of festive good cheer, why not make room for something harsh, aggressive and brutal? Cribbed from the audio generated by my helmet cam, this piece documents a short extract of a ride Read More …
Youtube: The Copyright Rules are Creaking.
So there are lots of people who are angry with Google’s new policy of screening all affiliate Youtube channels for content violations. This is because a lot of “lets play” folk are suddenly being hit with reviews and take downs. There are a lot of Read More …
Licensed Games: Are They Any Good?
So the other day we discovered that licensed games aren’t all rubbish, but are they actually any good? We’re not looking at games that simply avoided being turkeys, today only the best will do. Once again, I’ve opted to go for a single Read More …
Context is Everything
So today I have two pieces of music for you. The first is the background music for “Ice Cap Zone” from Sonic 3 on the Megadrive:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYxlqTpZ-24[/youtube] The second is an unreleased track called ‘Hard Times,’ written by obscure 80s New Wave act ‘The Jetzons’: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvnsriLZvL0[/youtube] Read More …
Fatnick’s Next Gen Choice – Big Picture Mode!
How exciting! Two brand new next gen consoles to choose from – but what do you go for? The Sony Brick Station 4 or the Microsoft Underpowered TV Box? Hmm. Sorry folks, but for the moment I’m going to have to plump for neither. This Read More …
Licensed Games: Are They Rubbish?
Today, I want to take an tentative look at the subject of licensed games. We all know the contradiction: Everyone has a number of favourite licensed games (be it Goldeneye on the N64, Robocop Vs Terminator on the Megadrive, or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Read More …
New Release: Big Yellow Building
Blimey! Its been months since I’ve released anything musical. Don’t worry though, I’ve been working on something special. A few months back, my colleague Melanie decided to organise a talent show to raise money for Children In Need. For my contribution, I was going to Read More …
Big Yellow Building
Written for a talent show at work. I wanted to try something new, so I opted for a bit of Jazz. May have been overdosing on Shakatak and Casiopea at the time. Sorry about that. Preview Stream/Buy
This Zx Spectrum Thing is amazing
This video combines both the Spectrum AND twitter. I’ll just leave this here: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ECnN7jdgA4[/youtube] Hat-tip to @Speecyjam – an event thats well worth a look.
Gaming Spotify
I was browsing the tech blogs yesterday when this caught my eye. I was partly intrigued because Spotify are a service I use to distribute music, but mostly because the guy’s musical name was clearly a Commando reference. With the inevitable “let off some steam Read More …
The Megadrive is 25 years old. Let’s celebrate by Smashing a Cartridge.
Cor! The Sega Megadrive has reached the same age as a 25 year old person. That’s a quarter of a century! Do you feel old? I do. How do you celebrate such a momentous event? Well, I have vandalised a cartridge. A Virtua Racing cartirdge, Read More …
Welcome to the Fantastical Zone
Blimey! Can you believe there are people out there who’ve never even seen a Spectrum? For those unlucky souls, a vibrant blue -and-yellow-bordered, pink-and-green website may seem a bit odd. Consequently, for a while now I’ve been planning to skin the site in something a Read More …
The Art of Porting: Strider
So today i want to talk about Strider on the Master System. Licensed by Sega but developed by Tiertex (they of HKM fame,) it’s a largely terrible conversion. This is a bit odd though. Tiertex also put together the Spectrum port, which was actually a Read More …
If we’re honest, Street Fighter 2 Was a bit poor.
The weird difficulty spikes, the jerky animations, the single playable character. what? You didn’t think we were talking about timeless classic “The World Warrior” did you? No, no, no! This is about the original sequel to Street Fighter, the computer-only title Human Killing Machine. This Read More …
Chase
Who said the Master System soundchip couldn’t generate some funky music, eh? (Vocal samples are, of course, from the original Chase HQ arcade machine)
Godzilla Generations: Review a Bad Game Day
So it turns out that today is Review a Bad Game Day. Hurrah! Now, what to pick? In some ways, the unending barrage of terrible games makes this harder than Review a Great Game Day. I’m supposed to pick something terrible, something that’s so flawed it Read More …
Night Trap:The Most Dangerous Game Of All
So the other day, 1morepodcastle host/Nintendo Legend author Eric Bailey posed an interesting question on twitter: What single video game has contributed more than any other to the public’s negative perception of gaming? — Eric Bailey (@Nintendo_Legend) July 2, 2013 Of course, a lot of Read More …
A gift
Thank you!