Amstrad Wonder Boy loading screen features a boy, wondering.

Glad it's not just me that can't forget their ICQ number. Mine was 2934300 and I've not needed to know that in so long now.

We're going to be doing 80s tech in todays world on @b3ta.com this week

Keep getting Instagram ads on moving to Dubai. Er, I think I'll pass, fellas.

Reinstalled PGA Tour 2K1 only to find that because 2k have turned the servers off, I can't even play single player career mode offline anymore. God, I hate modern sports game franchises.

Just bought Gunship for the ZX Spectrum, but it seems I'm a little late to claim my free frisbee. #zxspectrum

Aside from the AI slop like the butchers not having a door and a phone box for short people, these people are nostalgic about things that still exist. Literally round the corner from me, there's a butchers, chip shop and pub.. but there's also a kebab shop and a chinese. Variety is a good thing!

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Today's challenge: Packaging up probably the largest single order I've had in terms of number of items. All spectrum games and these are just the single-case ones.. now to dig out the big-box ones next.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

This is who runs this account

Just put an offer in on a house and already feel the anxiety kicking in. I'm not used to this grown-up stuff.

Me: *absolutely knocking it out of the park* Them: that actually belongs in the park

Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit

Off and on it

Post the first game you actually completed. Sure, Bruce Lee was an easy game once you got the hang of it, but it was still fun to loop it over and over. Plus at that age, I wasn't able to complete many spectrum games full stop.

I like my women how I like my coffee. In a cake.

"No, I've never cleaned up my own mother's piss" (been through another Thick Of It rewatch recently)

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... I've been in this very situation. Gamstop is great for blocking any UK-registered sites, and although the spam emails from gambling sites has all but dried up, I still get the occasional one from some sketchy overseas site boasting they're not on Gamstop's list.

Slightly diminish a game Dessert Strike

what’s made of brass and sounds like tom jones trombones

Bought a bundle of Amstrad games, so it's time to load up the MiSTer and get testing.

- loading games from cassettes - not being able to use the phone and the internet at the same time - actions having consequences

Extra pathetic to see him pretending to be humble for thirty seconds and not even managing that.

I may have been single for *cough* a long time, but at least I've never been dumped by a text generator.

Not often I buy an Atari Lynx that works perfectly, but it's certainly a nice surprise. Came with the Sun visor and Comlynx cable too, which is a bonus

First Monday back at work after a long break.

I need to stop the Onion writing about me.

The problem with using cursive fonts for your game is that an idiot like me will wonder why you've called your game 'Nightclown'

"Movies we think you'll like". Well, the lack of the 'Prime' symbol on three of them means I've already bought them, so thanks, Amazon for recommending me stuff I already own. And they can't even get the title right on one of them.

Roaring in the sense that everything will be on fire.

Yesterday @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social and I saw some techbro giving “30 pieces of advice for people under 30” over on Twitter and it was all grind culture bullshit. As adults of 38 and 43 respectively, we compiled 30 pieces of advice that people under 30 won’t have heard before:

Trump spouts over 100 social media posts on Christmas Day and yet Floella wins with just a single one.

Did family stuff yesterday and will be doing a bit more tomorrow, so today is about the tinkering and testing of consoles. So far so good...

7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film: 1) snow 2) bearded men concealing surprises 3) compulsory party games 4) introverts shunning group activities 5) digestive issues 6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms 7) knitwear

I feel this one hard :)

If you haven't already played the excellent Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, it's free on Epic at the mo - store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/bloo...

I can but hope.

In 'Robin of Sherlock', for the ZX Spectrum, if you try and enter the Smurph village window by typing 'GO WINDOW', the game thinks you're swearing and resets.

Not be that gal, but 58 more followers by Christmas to get to a nice round number seems doable. I’m fun! Tell your friends!

Some things are more fun to test than others.

Oh, is this a Going For Gold reboot?

And let us never forget this...

Damn, the Commodore 1570 floppy drive is a beast.

My in-tray of Amiga games to test is getting a little high.

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

Ask a Brit of a certain age if they remember the school shooting, they'd immediately ask 'Dunblane?'. Ask an American and they'd have to ask 'which one?'

Playing Cyclemania and these 'maniacs' sound more like sex toys.

Oh god.. now Rightmove are getting in on the 'Wrapped' nonsense too.