Recently I’ve become aware of a growing number of Cave boards offered for sale (just search Yahoo auctions for many examples) which have colour faults. Usually these aren’t even advertised as being faulty, I’m not sure how much of...
Those who read the shmups forum regularly will know that recently it was time to migrate the service back to the physical server, and since the hardware was getting quite old and not really performing for the price anymore,...
Space Battleship Yamato (2010) Not sure how this slipped past my radar for so long. Being a fan of Yamato (or Star Blazers as it was called in the US), I was surprised to find someone had made a...
I’ve backed a number of projects on Kickstarter now, a variety of things rather than just games, and finally items are starting to appear. First of all is my ‘Crabby Wallet’ – it’s one of the first if not...
Still missing some…. Apparently they have all been sent now. Sauro – a really very bad scrolling shooter that I’ve always wanted to own for some reason. Arrived booting unreliably, with sparkly sprites, and with unstable colour. Sold as...
If you collect older games, sooner or later you’re going to run into burned out connector pins. Sometimes it’s just from a bad loom or dirty contacts, other times it’s due to people soldering adapters to boards – one...
Fire With Fire (2012) Marketed as a Bruce Willis film, but he’s not actually the lead character in this one, that’s a fireman played by Josh Duhamel. He witnesses a racial and gang related killing. Initially he plans to...
My DOA5U arrived this week, complete with retailer bonus DLC code for a bunch of costumes. It’s really just a standalone upgrade pack for the original, and presumably so they can drive more costume sales which have been a...
Quietly released while the whole world was watching GTA 5 sell millions of units in a couple of days, Marlow Briggs hit XBLA and Steam without too many people noticing. That’s a shame though, because it definitely deserves some...
Byzantium (2012) Excellent if flawed vampire film starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan, there’s some strong bloody violence, but the film is at its most effective during some of the dialogue pieces, particularly the ones between the mother, the...