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Descent: A Decent Game.
“You’ve got to listen to me. Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok in an orgy of blood and kicking and the biting with the metal teeth...
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A World of Chesscraft…offline.
I always loved this screen. She sits at the top of the high places above the city. She is restless and determined. She girds her loins with strength. Her feet stay not in her house. She moves in every...
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The Dread Captain Bloodberts
Someone was selling it! One of the stranger games I’ve had the pleasure to play, is the enigmatic Captain Blood. Purchased by my Dad sometime in 1989-90, it was a part of an unusual compilation. The...
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The (g)Olden Days
“(The Amiga 500) is kind of the Rodney Dangerfield of Personal Computers, it doesn’t get much respect among the IBMs and Macs of the world’ I stumbled on to this old TV show last week and found it a...
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Got 64 dreams (But a disk drive ain’t one)
Ancient history is one of my stronger subjects and the study of times long past is fascinating to me. For video game ‘ancient’ history, the end of this period would be ushered in with the release of...
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Previously, on ‘Things I Wanted’.
The youth have time and energy, but no money. The adults have energy and money, but no time. The elderly have money and time, but no energy. It’s a profound statement, but even when it comes to video...
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Pinballin’
Pinball arcades were once havens for criminals. Never a family friendly environment, it would always be a place controlled by the young, whether for good or evil. The arcade was not to last forever...
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Suggested journeys for video game pilgrims
Pope Francis wishing for the return of Microprose. In the last decade, a seemingly wonderful transition has occurred. We no longer need to go to shops to bring home boxes filled with manuals, keyboard...
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Two Ancient Tomes
Readers of these articles would be aware of my appreciation of Amiga Power. It was a magazine that made me feel part of a larger world. Without it I’d have felt like one of about 3 Amiga users in the...
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