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 …
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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!
Outrun Europa
So the other day i popped down to RetroGameBase in Streatham ( absolutely amazing shop by the way – well, well, well worth a visit.) Despite an alarming amount of temptation sitting on every shelf, I managed to escape with just a couple of titles Read More …
New Single: Chase
Phew! Ever have one of those projects that starts out as simple, straight forward and whimsy, but ends on dragging on forever? This feels a little like that: I started out with the relatively simple idea of creating an 8-bit dance track and combining it Read More …
How do you stick it to your competition?
This goes a pretty long way : [youtube]http://youtu.be/kWSIFh8ICaA[/youtube]
First Sale Doctrine and Controlling Used Games
So a lot has been said about the Xbone, the PS4, and the possibility of controlling used game prices. This is an interesting one for me, as for once i’m able to wear both my musical and professional hats at the same time. As i’ve Read More …
Sega Pluto, anyone?
In 12 hours time, someone out there will be the proud owner of a Sega Pluto. What’s a Sega Pluto, i hear you ask? Well, it’s essentially a redesigned Saturn shell that combined both the Saturn console and the network peripheral in one device. Apparently Read More …
Make your own PIP-Boy!
Someone shared this with me, so I’d thought I’d share in turn: Here’s a step-by-step guide for making your very own PIP-Boy, the Radiation Detector-cum-PDA from the Fall Out series. I wish i had the Mad Skillz required for this sort of thing: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-PIP-Boy/?ALLSTEPS
Monkey Man
This one’s a bit of fun: It’s an upbeat piece built around a number of samples from forgotten Sega/Westone arcade game ‘Riot City’
Fatnick Towers has moved
Nice day for it!
8th April: Review A Great Game Day
Right, so according to the nice chaps over at 1morecastle.com, today is review a great game day! Hurrah! But there are so many great games, how can you pick just one? should it be for the Megadrive? Saturn? What about the Snes, PS1 or N64? Read More …
Basic manners
So Mrs Fatnick and i are in the process of relocating to a new FATNICK TOWERS. How very exciting! Unfortunately, this means people are currently coming to view the current Fatnick. As the Terrible Spectrum Toddler capable of undoing any clean up operation in the Read More …
Still got it
So over the Easter Break I liberated my old Master System 2 from my parent’s house. This is pretty exciting stuff: The Master System was my very first cartridge-based console. Woo hoo! Having got her home and booted her up, here’s a video of me Read More …