Retro Gaming On The Move
A Game Gear running on the Gameboy Advance? I’m not sure he it’s the best of both worlds, or something the fanboy would have with a venom – but it works and I like it.
Designing the Mame Cabinet
The largest part of the Mame project – deciding what to actually build.
Welcome to the world of MAME
Fancy an entire Arcade at Home? I did, so here’s the first of many discussions regarding our MAME Cabinet.
Mitch Benn and the Distractions
Are you in Edinburgh just now? Do you need yet another recommendation to go to a festival show? Then this is it. Go and see Mitch Benn at Teviot / Gilded Balloon. And tell him I sent you. It’s been too many festivals since I’ve been able to see Mitch, so the next best thing is send everyone to him and get you to leave comments here to make Vikki and I jealous. So go and see him, his new band, buy the CD, get him a Polar Bear, ask if it’s really him off the Radio, etc, etc, etc.
What Learning Curve?
Remember the days when games were real games, and a hard skill level was a really hard skill level?
The White Strikes
Seven Nation Army was a damm good tune, and a completely freaky video. For a long time I believed the White Stripes were actually a pretty good rock band. Until this weekend, when I saw their second single on Kerrang. It’s an incredibly bad cover of the Dusty Springfield Power Ballad (tm Jennifer Rush) I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself. It doesn’t flow, it’s not a patch on the original, and for some reason the video is a fixed camera on a Pole Dancer. Bad, bad, bad follow up in all respects. I just hope The Darkness
