So, making good on my New Years Resolution, yesterday was the first day I tried to MAKE A GAME. But how, exactly, do you go about making a game if your only major prior experience of game design is Epic’s classic DOS Adventure title ZZT? Read More …
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New Year’s Resolutions
It’s the first proper working week of 2015. Eeek. Before we get back to the depressing reality of the endless, monotonous grind towards inevitable death, I thought I’d quickly share my plans with 2015 with you all. So, in no particular order: Do a spot Read More …
Twas the months before Xmas, and all through the website, not a creature was stirring…
Hello! Yes, sorry about that. Things have been a but busy over at Fatnick Towers, what with an exciting weekend break to New York, getting everything ready for Christmas and. . . Erm. . . Finding time to play through the whole of Alien: Isolation. Read More …
10 years ago, I wasn’t supposed to be playing Outrun 2
The 10th of October 2004 was a Wednesday. As it was a Wednesday, I wouldn’t have been in university. Instead, I should have been at home working on my research. As it was November 2004, I wasn’t working on my research. I was playing Outrun Read More …
Godzilla and The Martians
What’s this? Someone made a Godzilla game for the Speccy? Why haven’t i heard of this before? Is this the title to put an end to the Big Gs run of largely terrible games? Let’s fire it up! Please don’t be rubbish. . . Please Read More …
Diggin In the Carts
Hang on, how did I not know about this? Red Bull have commissioned a documentary series, called Diggin in The Carts, which is all about the history of Japanese video game music. This is most definitely relevant to my interests. They have already popped the Read More …
On #Gamergate and Journalistic Integrity
Blimey, things got a bit heated over the weekend didn’t they? What with Zoe Quinn revealing the identity of the folks behind her harassment and the accompanying storm of FURY, etc. Interestingly, regardless of whether or not it was started by 4Channers, the #gamergate hash-tag, Read More …
Push Off You Disgusting Pervert: Streaker (ZX Spectrum)
With all the talk of ZX Spectrum related stuff on here lately, why don’t we take a look at another Speccy classic: Streaker. First a shocking admission. We didn’t actually own an official copy of Streaker over at Fatnick towers. Our copy was an illicit Read More …
Speccy Jams: Now on Spotify
Hello you! Hope you’re having a lovely week. Did you know that Speccy Jams is now fully streamable on Spotify? If you want to listen you don’t even need to leave this page. Well, makes a change from all that Gamergate gubbins…
Speccy Jam has begun!
Blimey, The Speccy Jam has begun, and it’s already getting a lot of coverage! Check out this article in the Guardian. It’s just a shame, inevitably, that they seem to forget that anything other than the 48k Spectrum existed. Anyway, people are already posting lots Read More …
Speccy Jams: Album Art Release & Preorder info!
Hello Spec-chums! This is all getting quite exciting. There are now just three days to go till the start of the second Speccy Jam and two days until the release of my Speccy Jams album! My good friend Fabiana has submitted the final album artwork to Read More …
Announcing. . .Speccy Jams!
Next week, a bunch of friendly and talented people will begin a frenzied week-long dash to create a game for the second Speccy Jam. It’s going to be tremendous fun. You REALLY should take a look. Now, as you are probably aware, there is nothing Read More …
The Genesis is 25 years old!
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 …
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 …
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 …