Corporate involvement in stuff rightfully gets a lot of bad press, but on this one occasion it looks like Fox was somehow fighting the good fight.

Gonna keep tooting my own horn for a second: This collection is a lot of fun for researchers to dig into. People are already finding info about unreleased games, the inner workings of the games business, and data points that are helping us put together new stories about Activision in the 90s

On the one hand, my train home is screwed and I'll be lucky if I'm just an hour late. On the other, I have an excuse to go on the tram.

[1st date] (thinks) dont let her know youre a 1990 cracktro her: so what do yo- me: PARADOX PROUDLY PRESENTS J M S O D A E P N UNLIMITED LIVES OFF UNLIMITED MACKEREL OFF SADDAM FEARS PARADOX PRODUCTIONS!! GET EM BOYS!!

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

N A T A L I T Y

Quick little Speccy chiptune work in progress! (No, You've been listening to a lot of New Order recently)

Aelian, Book 4 Chapter 25: "Thrasyllos from the deme Aiksône endured an incredible and novel madness. For he left the city and went to the Peiraia and stayed there...he wrote down [departing ships] names, checked the list when they left and rejoiced when they returned safely to the harbor again."

Later on today, I'm launching my website, which is a database of people who haven't yet declared that Chaos is the greatest computer game of all time, complete with their employers' contact details.

(On top of this, even when it became apparent that the moral crusaders weren't going to accept their "but we only make cute games!" argument, Nintendo refused to accept the draft age rating scheme that had the potential to save the industry because Sega were the ones who had created it)

In Sweden in 1993, this was a real Sonic promo poster. In the end, Sega went for less edgy taglines, but the fact that they thought it was a good idea, really has that early 90s Sega quality.

There's definitely truth that it wasn't necessarily THE battle, but we can see from the first Mean Machines (which was a subsection of C&VG rather than its own mag) that Sega vs Nintendo was most definitely a thing, even before the consoles launches.

Reporting someone who legally acquired your junk for money laundering in order to get them investigated by the fraud squad isn't exactly a classy look.

(Queue the avalanche of no one in the UK owned a NES posts, which aren't true either)

Bloody hell, where did Monday go? jist enough time for some Transformers-themed Uno before the youngest's bed time

Having had to drag a reluctant 8 year old around Tesco earlier I can confirm this tactic is very annoying. I also just tried to read this aloud to my wife but couldn't make i beyond the beginning of the third paragraph.

If you have hold music, please don't interrupt it with a recorded message every ten seconds. It's really annoying.

oh no, forgot to tag with #pinball

Back from a long weekend! Have some of Watermouth Castle's classic British pin games

NORMALISE THE CONCEPT OF TECH-HERESY

I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"

Should probably get round to playing Left 4 Dead at some point. oops.

Another very Sega-specific thing is the question of what is 3d anyway? The likes of Outrun were psuedo 3d but despite the 2d visuals Power Drift maps objects in a three dimensional space. Sprite based Dark Edge is more of 3D fighter than the original Virtual Fighter.

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

I'm not saying it would be easy (because none of it is easy) but it does seem like immediate, strong action on the mickey-taking energy sector would have been an obvious way of making people better off while also making the government seem like it was actually doing something.

TIL makoto uchida of golden axe, altered beast, die hard arcade fame has quietly left sega (with his shanghai studio likely closed/reduced from where it was) after 38 years, to now work as a university professor... was hoping he'd do a few more years but what a run www.mgt.ous.ac.jp/staff/uchida/

i'm a proud parent today 😀

The BBC were strangely on point when they posted their Imagine Software documentary the other day.

We saw Jurassic World: Rebirth last night. Felt suspiciously like someone had a solid(ish) concept for more of a 15+ sort of a film that had to be diluted. Kids loved it, mind you.

Hey! The current Fortnite map has a ZZT arcade machine.

Sacking a load of security experts in order to replace them with AI that generates flawed leaky code. That definitely isn't going to end in disaster.

Is this the Skool that every home computer owner went to back in the Daze? Recognise it? Haven’t optimised it properly, but considering this took me most of yesterday… looks good, right? :) #retrogaming :p

CARTOON/BATMAN_1.GIF

When I started in publishing one thing that surprised me (although it really shouldn't have) is how much say retailers have. Especially when it comes to aspects like cover design.

Yes. This.

DEATH TO THE XENO SWARM

somewhere at my parents there's a box of 350 or so speccy tapes we...acquired...between 1989 and 1992. console games obviously reached the position where they were given away 3-at-a-time on the front of magazines, but there were still plenty of routes to get them for cheap.

If you want to know how today's going, Mrs FatNicK and I turned up at the Design Museum JUST as it was being evacuated.

I think there's definitely always a tension between new players and the existing player base. In the 80s and nineties video games were immunised to an extent because everything refreshed every 4-5 years for everyone. Pinball tables in the same time frame became a lot less approachable.

Despite forgetting to tell you half the rules, the Funko Godzilla game is pretty good when you get into it

Just lost a high-stakes game of Happy Little Dinosaurs :(

An LCD train game you can play on the train!

so they're mycoblogging

Amazing! Well done to everyone involved

*urgh*

Don't mind me, just on the train home from work headbanging to the Blackknight2000 theme