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Loader Bollocks

Loader Bollocks

Loading, even the word makes me feel tired. For gamers who like to play on old machines, loading is a facet of gaming which just hasn’t gone away. Some people even relish in it, bathing in the glorious high pitched babble of classic 8-bit cassettes.…

Pixel Perfect

Pixel Perfect

Zorgon's Revenge... another hero saving a princess, but this guy appears to be wearing a flat cap and pullover! I’ve been at this a long time.  Gaming, I mean.  Ignoring the drab ASCII based games of the ZX80, my first memorable immersion in the sea…

Reaching Objectives

Reaching Objectives

Apparently the new version of pong uses cell shadding, 10,000 polygons per bat and the latest Physx engine... just to make sure it looks like the original. Honest. The first gaming console (if you could call it that) I owned was a simple little device. …