n3ta

So I probably won't bother

Pro The Codemasters Archive Ninja Simulator
https://thecodemastersarchive.co.uk

10/10! Amazing graphics! - David Darling

SWOS all this then

"In May 1999, Codemasters acquired British games developer, Sensible Software for an undisclosed sum."

Heresy!

*Destroys a cassette copy (Amstrad CPC) of Professional Ski Simulator whilst in the grip of an uncontrollable rage*

The BBC's first and only games console...
Imagine getting that rather than a Master System or NES!

I likes this - Jelly Load

Using YouTube to transmit / receive Vic 20 game files via the medium of photo resistors.
https://www.tfw8b.com/introducing-jelly-load/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWf4UDZ0VCE

That is pretty incredible

A similar light-based system for transmitting Vic 20 games is already in use during episodes of Loose Women.

A games console that costs seven hundred pouns

Fucking hell

and what a wonderful line up of games it has as well. A worthwhile purchase for sure.

both Sony and MS have somehow made pointless consoles for this generation.

And a blu ray player is another £100 on top?!?

Great value!

Someone doesn't like Peter Molyneux https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/ ... lex-legacy

For good reason to be fair

Also Fabble 4 is being made by the Forza Horizon people. Bizarro

My sister visited this weekend and was happily playing the Broken Sword rehamster, for which she contributed, so she is in the credits. I am rather delighted to find that, because she wanted it, so am I.

oh wow, nice

hooray

This remake of Pitfall:

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/950849

Pleases me.

Even though I'm rubbash at it.

that is quite nice! at one point I started trailing colours behind me and everything went slow-motion and I wasn't sure if it was on purpose

I wish I could trail colours behind me like that. It'd be one in the eye for my detractors.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... epmind-ai-

i wonder where peter molyneux's nobel prize is

dng wrote: Sun Jan 21, 2024 7:27 pm hooray. my ps4 has just crashed and broken and corrupted itself somehow

my sister gave me an old 2tb hard drive last week so i've been putting all my ps4 games on that so that hopefully if my ps4 crashes again i won't have to re download everything all over again again (although you can't put your saves on it so that'd still all be fucked anyway)

it is now one week later and it is still downloading stuff (only 200GB to go)

stupid utterly huge modern games/utterly miniscule sony download rate

imagine if you had gamespass and you were supposed to do this every month as old things disappear/new things appear constantly forver

dng wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 10:33 pm it is now one week later and it is still downloading stuff (only 200GB to go)

Bloomin' hell!

When I become PM all games will be limited to 1mb.

i think the largest game was 100GB, although loads and loads of random stuff you'd t hink would be small still takes up like 10GBs or so, no matter what

dng wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 10:34 pm imagine if you had gamespass and you were supposed to do this every month as old things disappear/new things appear constantly forver

I bought an eggbox "series s" recently and I have this, I am enjoying it so far although as soon as they try to remove a game I'm still playing I will turn on it completely and throw the console out onto the street

sadly now I am hopelessly addicted to "Powerwash Simulator" which never would have happened if it had wanted me to pay for it, I would have been too embarrassed

i bet trig has played 17,000 hours of powerwash simulator without even a hint of shame

it's weirdly compelling

"The Spectrum Retro Gaming Console" (it's a computer actually!)
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/4095774

That is a nice package for 90 notes.

dng wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 11:35 am i bet trig has played 17,000 hours of powerwash simulator without even a hint of shame

Don't know what you mean

Eight out of ninety achievements

I don't know what more it wants from me

You probably have to actually go to their house and clean their patio.

Haha, some of the achievements that I *have* got have been pretty tenuous ("clean this one thing last / first" etc) so I think trying to get to 100% on this would be madness

Have you tried power washing it?

oh shit I've been using sponge

I finally finished Twilight Princess a few weeks ago, for the entertainment of ehis (who was visiting) and my sister (who has watched me play almost all of it, with the exception of the Snowpeak dungeon and a few ancillary bits). It took about six months from start to finish, to accommodate my sister's wish to watch me play it, so I kept forgetting how to use various items, especially the wind boomerang, and had to be reminded, but other than that I managed to complete it without any outside assistance, so I'm quite pleased with myself. And I found all the ghosts and all the insects, but only 42 of the stamps (it was the Wii U version) because bugger that.

Next up is Phantom Hourglass, a rare Zelda in that my sister's only completed it once so doesn't actually have a meaningful advantage over me at it. She apparently only wanted to watch me play Twilight Princess and isn't bothered about seeing the others, so I'm hoping that by this time next year I'll have actually reached the Switch-only games. We shall see.

Also I desire to know of all online archives of computer and video games (including C&VG) magazines and instruction booklets and so on that ye all may know about, for upcoming SECRET PROJECT.

Best link ever!

For me, anyways!

Thankee

Also:

https://www.worldofdragon.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
https://dragon32.co.uk

and I follow this account on bluesky which posts loads of spectrum stuff

https://bsky.app/profile/zxvintage.bsky.social

That World Of Dragon site will keep me occupied for a few days, I expect! *rubs hands* Great!

Escape from PETSCII Castle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_CMY1SOflg

Inspired by Wolfenstein 3D but running on a 1981-era Commodore PET.

I am playing a Zelda. It's good, but I also definitely can't be bothered to build all these machines that I think it wants me to carefully build out of bits of wood and rocks and ancient rockets (?).

I'm theoretically playing Echoes of Wisdom but I can't seem to muster much enthusiasm for it. Especially now that I've become distracted by the new Indiana Jones game, which is best game ever