Games

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Sep 10, 2026 12:31 pm

New jokk!

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Sep 10, 2026 12:31 pm

Nude jokk!

Post by **endar** » Thu Sep 10, 2026 1:26 pm

Links 386 was better, or the first one on Amiga

Post by **vom** » Thu Sep 10, 2026 2:36 pm

I liked Links Awakening, where the golf course came to life and upset the fragile ecosystem of an island

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Thu Sep 10, 2026 3:33 pm

The Amelican dream.

Post by **dng** » Fri Sep 11, 2026 9:57 pm

I'm playing Final Fantasy 7 at the moment (the PS4 port of the PC port of the PS1 game). I just thought I'd google the bit where sweet innocent naive old Aeris threatens to rip the mafia boss's cock off, and this was the search result it gave me

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Post by **dng** » Fri Sep 11, 2026 9:58 pm

thanks for the help google

Post by **dng** » Fri Sep 11, 2026 10:11 pm

Also it's quite funny how the wall market section of Final Fantasy 7 is basically a yakuza game for five minutes. And then the Shinra building is a very tiny Metal Gear Solid (mild stealth, crawling around in air ducts, following Sephiroth/Ninja's trail of carnage down some corridors, and it even has a bit where you spend ten minutes climbing up a staircase)

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Mon Sep 21, 2026 3:33 pm

Consolevania update: no more CVXX, they will be doing things separately (for the CV Patreon) for the foreseeable, but they are not stopping entirely. I think it's actually a logistics issue rather than a falling-out. Still a bit of a shame though.

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Sep 22, 2026 1:25 pm

Ta for the update, Bruce, and yup, that is a bit of a shame.

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Thu Sep 24, 2026 11:54 am

Oh no. Very sad that they didn't make it far enough to capture the peak of human civilisation (1998).

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Oct 02, 2026 12:51 pm

Apologies for the 'X' link, but Afterburner on the Vectrex.

https://x.com/TheRetroAsylum/status/2105530125316170061

PHWOAR!!!

Post by **endar** » Fri Oct 02, 2026 7:45 pm

indeed that looks amazing

Post by **dng** » Fri Oct 02, 2026 10:48 pm

i've been playing yet another yakuza game. in the arcade this time is this amazing knacked sega light gun game where you have to shoot sharks in the face

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOpHP8f5SCQ

"Something terrible's happening. It is out of our course to get to KRAKEN... but!"

Post by **dng** » Fri Oct 02, 2026 10:49 pm

Unfortunately, kraken killed me and everyone died

Post by **dng** » Fri Oct 02, 2026 10:50 pm

blimey, that vetrex afterburner thing is beautiful

Post by **endar** » Fri Oct 02, 2026 11:16 pm

dng wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2026 10:49 pm Unfortunately, kraken killed me and everyone died

hooray

good old sega

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Oct 06, 2026 7:09 pm

Jeez, the Oliver Twins are using AI to 'make' a new Dizzy game. Cashgrabtastic!

https://www.timeextension.com/features/ ... bout-genai

"This is an incredible time to be alive for a creator", apparently.

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 06, 2026 7:34 pm

Ill make them a dizzy game if they want

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 06, 2026 7:34 pm

That sounds like some obscure threat

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 06, 2026 7:34 pm

And maybe it is

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Oct 07, 2026 12:56 am

You're like Hitler crossed with Jeff Minter! :O Jeff Hitler! :O

Also...

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£4

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 07, 2026 10:26 am

Yes. Hooray

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Oct 07, 2026 7:27 pm

I've going to use AI to make Shenmue for the Oric-1.

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Wed Oct 07, 2026 8:23 pm

blombluss wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2026 7:09 pm Jeez, the Oliver Twins are using AI to 'make' a new Dizzy game. Cashgrabtastic!

https://www.timeextension.com/features/ ... bout-genai

"This is an incredible time to be alive for a creator", apparently.

I presume it will be 50gb, require a subscription, and crash if you hit "up" and "left" at the same time

Post by **vom** » Wed Oct 07, 2026 9:38 pm

you think they're trying to yoke folk?

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Thu Oct 08, 2026 12:09 am

Ehis sent me this the other day: https://bbcexile.com/
We have a shared love of / obsession with this game, which I had on the BBC Micro and he had on the Amiga (due to seeing the version I had).
I am very frightened, although I have a lot of leave to take between now and the end of the year so perhaps it will not matter that I inevitably end up sinking days into this.

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 08, 2026 11:11 am

excellent. exile was one of those games i always wanted to play when i was little but never did

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 08, 2026 11:12 am

and now i might

Post by **endar** » Thu Oct 08, 2026 11:37 am

Bruce were you aware of Revs on the BBC? It was the first sim by Geoff Crammond in 1985. It was recently recompiled for native PC, with support for modern wheels and shit, and some crazy guy even modded extra tracks into it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btzkjHTSENg

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Oct 08, 2026 1:35 pm

I was so shite at Revs.

Post by **endar** » Thu Oct 08, 2026 2:37 pm

I tried the C64 version. It has separate keys for small and large steering rates, but also uses the paddles, which I still want to try once I fix the ones I have

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Thu Oct 08, 2026 7:48 pm

I have very little knowledge of the BBC Micro other than the games I had; I never found a place that sold them, so the only additions to my collection came when one of my uncles bought me a few in 1989: Elite, Exile, and a Predator tie-in. The BBC and its games originally belonged to another uncle, who died unexpectedly in 1986 (pneumonia aggravated by lupus), and I think they just gave it to me because no one knew what to do with it.

Years and years later, my dad threw the whole lot out with zero warning. I continue to be aggrieved about this, not least because he could have sold it for quite a lot of money. Typical of my dad.

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Thu Oct 08, 2026 8:00 pm

The original games were:
Hobbit text adventure
Planetoid (Defender clone)
Atlantis (Penetrator clone)
Birds of Prey (Galaxians clone)
Alien Break-In
Atom Smasher
The Wizard
Protector (didn't work)
Mined Out (finally completed this on an emulator during Covid lockdown)
The Welcome tape (featuring the amazing Yellow River Kingdom)
... and a load that my uncle had typed out from magazines and saved to tape, many of which stopped working because the tape wore out. I remember George and the Dragon, Death Watch, and of course Bomber which is the only game my dad has ever really liked, apart from the time he got obsessed with doing the time trial on Mario Raceway on Mario Kart 64 for some reason.

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 08, 2026 8:59 pm

The only bbc micri games i played were grannys garden and podd

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 08, 2026 9:00 pm

The two best games ever made

Post by **vom** » Thu Oct 08, 2026 9:38 pm

Chuckie Egg, Vertigo, Citadel

The holy trinity

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Thu Oct 08, 2026 11:14 pm

I have played none of these. It was a strange position to be in, really.

Post by **endar** » Fri Oct 09, 2026 1:30 am

No Repton either

gasp

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Oct 09, 2026 7:23 pm

re: The Welcome tape (featuring the amazing Yellow River Kingdom)

I loiked Welcome tapes, although I wish computer companies had done Farewell tapes, too. These could've consisted of sampled sounds of crying, a quiz in which the computer tries to guess which computer/console you're replacing them with, and then the tape could've exploded and covered you in shards of fibreglass.

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Oct 09, 2026 7:34 pm

re: Jeez, the Oliver Twins are using AI to 'make' a new Dizzy game. Cashgrabtastic!

Chinnyvision gone dun a video of Outrun on the Master System being converted to the Amstrad CPC via AI. It's sort of impressive that it can do that, but the graphics (road scroll routine aside) and sound aren't great, so it's kinda pointless, really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF6j2gdX05U

Post by **endar** » Fri Oct 09, 2026 9:10 pm

like a lot of recent conversions, done just for the sake of it

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Sat Oct 17, 2026 12:47 pm

blombluss wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2026 7:09 pm Jeez, the Oliver Twins are using AI to 'make' a new Dizzy game. Cashgrabtastic!

https://www.timeextension.com/features/ ... bout-genai

"This is an incredible time to be alive for a creator", apparently.

N3ta should sue them for infringement

Post by **dng** » Sat Oct 17, 2026 2:18 pm

It's kind of frightening how fast AI image generation improved while also somehow simultaneously getting much much worse

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Oct 17, 2026 3:46 pm

An Unicorn wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2026 12:47 pm
blombluss wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2026 7:09 pm Jeez, the Oliver Twins are using AI to 'make' a new Dizzy game. Cashgrabtastic!

https://www.timeextension.com/features/ ... bout-genai

"This is an incredible time to be alive for a creator", apparently.
N3ta should sue them for infringement

Yeah! It's an open and shut case, and we shouldn't settle for anything less than 37£!

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Oct 17, 2026 3:52 pm

Sensi Soccer (nearasdammit) on the C64!

https://youtu.be/TdaTzVvq7Qg?si=cagrhnwpuANEgqvM&t=30

That looks boss!

Post by **endar** » Tue Oct 20, 2026 9:57 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRwTHmWUAqY

this looks bosser

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Oct 20, 2026 10:26 pm

Nice!

I wasn't sure about the ball sticking to the players feet, but as you get closed down pretty quickly, it very much becomes a game about strategic passing.

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 22, 2026 8:06 am

dng wrote: Wed Aug 05, 2026 9:41 am fucking hell

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjejyl34345o

at least this means EA will be dead in five years I suppose

Fuck off EA

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/ ... e-decades/

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 22, 2026 8:07 am

I love the way the last thing games companies want to do is employ any game devs whatsoever