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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 …
The great thing about mucking around with old arcade games is that, sometimes, you stumble across half-remembered titles which you weren’t completely sure existed. One title, for me, is Sega’s 1994 title Wing War. I remember seeing this once, in Read More …
Because it’s taken me AGES (to be this good, etc) to find a decent MAME/front end combination for the mac, we might as well get our money’s worth – so here’s a review of forgotten Sega classic, Action Fighter. Hurrah! Ok so describing this one Read More …
For anyone wondering (ok, so you probably weren’t) the vocal samples from Monkey Man come from an old Sega-published Brawler called ‘Riot City.’ Never Heard of it? Me neither, until i discovered the soundtrack over on this site. Lets load her up and have a Read More …
The chaps over at 1morecastle have nicely decided to include one of my tracks on an edition of their podcast! Well worth a listen if you like all manner of retro gamey stuff. gogogo! 1MoreCastle
Look at this: Fatnick has invaded the iTunes store. Click these links to download the Attack of the Terrible Lizard Kitty (Video Game Soundtrack) album and the 2012 EP But wait – there’s more! Both albums have tax-dodged their way onto Amazon as well. Look Read More …
I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for Jumping Flash! I first encountered it on one of the demo disks (what a quaint concept!) originally bundled with the Playstation One (the disk also included demos of Wipeout, Ridge Racer Revolution and a nifty Read More …
From Fatnick and the magical Spectrum Elf
I decided against watching the Did We Land on The Moon? documentary last night, and reading the posts on Twitter makes me very glad that I didn’t. There is no question that man went to the moon. From equipment left at the launch site to Read More …
Creating Fatherhood required a surprising amount of mental discipline, thanks to a sudden and almost irresistible urge for PROCRASTINATION. Consequently, I thought I’d do a quick couple of posts on the things that have been distracting me over the last month. So then, for the Read More …
Don’t panic everyone! I’m not dead, I’ve just been on holiday! After 3 weeks touring the US…and a couple of weeks sorting myself out…I’m back and ready to begin the music making afresh. Hurrah! Until then, here’s a specified New York for you:
Plogue have just released an update for their Chipsounds plugin – something I’ve used extensively on Attack of The Terrible Lizard Kitty – and are currently selling it for half price. I thought now would be a good time to jot down a quick review. Read More …
Taken on my ride into work: Raw Power
El Reg have written a retrospective on one of my favourite Speccy Games, Ghostbusters: Considering I was late onto the Speccy scene, arriving at a time there were many more technically impressive games available, I have no idea just why I liked Ghostbusters so much. Read More …
It’s with a heavy (and deeply surprised) heart that I bid farewell to another fantastic UK games developer – Sony Liverpool. While Psygnosis (or Sony Liverpool, as they became) may not have immediately come to mind if I were asked to name Read More …
Piccadilly circus, specified! I much prefer it this way.
…but most people don’t leave the original Spectrum loading procedure intact! “paulisthebest3uk”, I salute you: [youtube]http://youtu.be/zlsDmALohQQ[/youtube]
Hello folks, In light of the FANCY new Workpress facebook plugin, i thought it would be a good idea to finally get round to update the site to the latest version of WordPress. To cut a long story short, it was a bad idea. A Read More …
A weird gig in many ways. Would many people turn up to see a partial PIL line up play a bastardised version of a 30 year old album? Yes, apparently they would: when we rocked up at the village underground, the que was round the Read More …
You are drab and miserable, but you are home. Even if you didn’t elect me as mayor.