But didn’t the original BBC Model B and Spectrum version have hidden missions? I’m sure I remember being yanked out of witch space to fight Thargons (?) and definitely had a mission to rescue people from a planet endangered by a supernova; cargo of 35t of evacuees

Then you really ought to avoid Hachi: a Dog’s Tale (with Richard Gere). I will never be able to watch it a second time; I get choked up telling people about it....

That reminds me.....

As much as I like these, I’d prefer something like this.....

I remember my older brother scoring tickets for us to see Akira at the Scala cinema in London (a much missed art house/cult/whatever they wanted to show cinema). Blown away.

 As a parent of a 9 year old Lego addict, who measures his collection n terms of how many litres it takes to store t, I’m a fan of Really Useful Box products. They may cost a bit more than other plastic storage but they’re tough, stack well and come in a variety of sizes

How long before the multiplayer death count matches the total number of deaths in World War I?

This makes me yearn for the days playing CS Source on servers provided by Teesside University (wasn’t a student). Being an ass got you kicked. Homophobic language was a 1 hour ban. Antisemitism a 1 day ban. Racism was a permanent ban. AWP and auto snipers were banned. Having fun encouraged (everyone buying Deagle,…

Stars for everyone!

If you have a B&M near you, check there

I enjoyed reading this immensely; this is why I prefer the ”original” Resident Evil games (up to Code Veronica, say), or the first couple of Silent Hills over the newer games; the intentionally clunky controls, resource conservation, or the lack of ability of your character.

So many to choose from; 3D Monster Maze, Ant Attack, Elite (BBC disk version at a friend’s), Battlezone, Scramble, Pole Position, the unknown text adventure game on the mainframe where my parents worked.

As my only experience of separating pro cycling was watching le Tour pass by when it came near me here in the UK, there was also advertising/sponsor vehicles driving ahead of everything throwing out freebies!

Nah, trolling is crudely faking Shenmue 3 game cases and leaving them in the second hand bin in Electronics Boutique back in the day.....

But does it let you know when you’ve reached Elite?

I don’t know, this guy looks pretty big.....

And without which, we’d have never had Concerned the Half-Life comic (for which you really had to have played the game to completion for most of the jokes to make sense)

It’s funny, seeing this article so soon after the piece about the NegCon controller; that was my favourite way to play the earlier games, until it either got traded in or broken. In the 90s, Sega park in London had what I think was a demo version of 2097, running on a PC and with a moderate amount of cabinet movement…

Many Thanks. I always liked the games which held onto a sense of humour. Some of the White Dwarf mini campaigns for Warhammer (?) were good; Bloodbath at Orc’s Drift, Dart of Harkness to name but two.

These remind me of an RPG I saw for sale and saw mini campaigns for in White Dwarf, which was set in a dystopian future and in which the players had to accomplish relatively simple tasks while the GM, acting as the “central computer” (I think), tried to screw them over at every opportunity. I wish I’d got a chance to…