Having a quiet New Year's in, but still observing a proper tradition. #sameprocedureaseveryyear

Can’t really begrudge the kids having their own jokes and memes because it’s all they’re ever going to own

The best argument for abolishing the honours system is to look at the list of people who’ve just been awarded them.

BONUS QUESTION: There's one TV programme that was screened on FIVE Freeview channels in 2025 (BBC Two, BBC Four, ITV1, Channel 4 and More4), albeit in three different guises. Can you identify it?

Bit of a long shot, but if anyone happens to have the issue of Buster dated 20th September 1986 they would be able to do me a massive and very easy favour

Approaching 2026 with this this energy

I still have to finish going through all the issues of UK Look-In magazine but I did find some good copies of the toy adverts so far. TFraw.com

Huh, my mum started talking about No. 73, via the fact that it’s her 73rd birthday. I can’t remember her talking about that particular TV show since it was on back in the ‘80s. Weird.

Meanwhile back to the #80s and in particular December 1989 to take a look at the Amstrad CPC chart with full price games riding high with Batman The Movie taking the top spot. (Image : @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social / Teletext Archive)

People who actually say “we don’t need to learn/speak languages any more, we have AI” out loud, and aren’t being sarcastic… Well, I can’t say what I’d like to happen to such people without risking my account being suspended.

I've delved into the archive for the latest ChinnyVision podcast as I've found this interview I did with @irregularshed.com in 2019. Learn all about Steve's time at Your Sinclair, The Pathetic Pablo Brothers and more. chinnyvision.podbean.com/e/ep-17-stev...

Getting Shenmue vibes on the way home today.

My latest retro-gaming piece for Stuff: Remembering Commodore’s C64GS at 35 (someone has to) and 6 great GS games • www.stuff.tv/features/rem... And, yes, that lead pic is very, very beige.

Glühwein followed by a chaser of Japanese coffee in a can.

Morning!

Hmm, I’ve seen better outdoor Seasonal decorations.

NEW VIDEO: Copter 271 is an Amstrad GX4000 exclusive title released in September 1991. So only a year late from when they might have actually sold some copies. youtu.be/Yf7bAjDB90M

Could be worse weather this morning. Well, compared to yesterday…

Just sent three Seasonal cards off to Germany… Post Office charged me £13.60. Astonishing.

Introduce yourself with your last five addresses, date of birth and mother's maiden name

Gonna wrap this lot up, put it under the tree when it goes up tomorrow and pretend like it's 198-something.

This. This is why you shouldn't give Paul Andrews/Retro Games Limited any of your money. He's a horrible, spiteful little man who only sees the retro games community as a cash cow to milk and something to bully.

Tell me you’ve used AI to tweak an archive photo without telling me you’ve used AI to tweak an archive photo. Breeds musnuey, indeed.

US reboot of Crossroads. Cancelled after 3 episodes.

I don’t think many people realise this. British people are discouraged from marrying someone from outside of Britain!

Once again, “protect the children” drives people quite insane, and rarely actually protects any children.

OK, I don’t like seeing Seasonal trees (or decorations or other signifiers) so early in the year, but I’ll give it points for looking like something from early 3D polygonal games. Maybe the decorations are crude texture maps?

On this Remembrance Sunday, let us again remember the fallen cover of issue 32 of Amiga Power.

Also in TVS land (Soton region) Coca Cola and Pepsi struggled to compete with Panda Cola. No, really! At the supermarket a can of Panda Cola was 12p whereas Coca Cola was 18p. It was shit but that wasn't the point. And they sold it for 50p down at the kiosks in Bomo!

TBH, the Oliver Twins would have used genAI had it existed back in the 1980s, seeing as their deal whole was churning out cheap identikit games rather than anything of actual quality…

"So that's four large chips, haddock, battered sausage, mushy peas and curry sauce... what are the rest of you having?"

I got asked the inevitable “where do things go when you empty the [Windows] Recycling Bin, and how can I get them all back?” question at work today.

Off down the Pavilion.

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.

Independent shops are a great thing, people pulling them down because they can’t use them for content is not. Support the great thing

Another thing here - if you go to, let's say, a GP and you get an answer your not happy with, PERSIST. I had a proper diagnosis when I reported what happened with my GP to my diabetic specialist. She then got me a referral, saying that the GP should have. Eventually I was properly diagnosed.

My girlfriend just phoned her sister, who answered by singing the Pink and the Brain theme tune in German. Amazing.

I hear Bluesky’s user base is decreasing. They need some advertising.

Someone at workplace just converted a PNG to a JPG by printing out the PNG image and putting the resulting printout in a flatbed scanner, whereby the resulting scan was automatically saved as a JPG. 🫤

I see the 'ID keeps everyone safe on the internet' campaign continues to not keep everyone safe on the internet.

And this, class, is why aiming at agricultural self-sufficiency rather than spreading risk across different countries through international trade is a *really stupid idea*.

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

Pay me to go for a walk next year. Well, pay MNDA, but I'll still do the walking www.justgiving.com/page/mw-wind...

Your favourite Youtube channel has a new video out. But since he's now pulling cars apart (Technology Connections) watch some throbber review Friday The 13th on the C64, Speccy and CPC instead. You'll shit your pants with fright or your money back.* youtu.be/7a6N3ZyTWvM * No refunds.

This is a brilliant dissection of the "Definitive Guide to SNES RPGs". Having read through it, I'm actually amazed that Bitmap Books published it. The standard of writing is significantly below what I expect from their books. Significantly.

For some reason, a local charity shop I looked at during had an ancient issue of PC Format from 1994.

FACT OF THE DAY. 3 October 1990. Communist East German Democratic Republic was abolished and became part of the Federal Republic of Germany thus reuniting Germany for the first time since 1945. People in Berlin celebrated. This day is now celebrated as German Unity Day.

I always wondered where they were based