If your eyes are in need of a feast, then get your ocular knives and forks ready for this:
Tasty looking graphics and physics effects for sure, and the controller looks more comfortable than previous generations (very subjective, I know) and it looks like there’s a sensor bar that could be the lovechild of the kinect and the wii’s IR receiver…but we still don’t know what the box looks like.
Why is this so important?
I don’t know. But it is!
This is definitely on my DO WANT list though.
If your eyes are in need of a feast, then get your ocular knives and forks ready for this:
Tasty looking graphics and physics effects for sure, and the controller looks more comfortable than previous generations (very subjective, I know) and it looks like there’s a sensor bar that could be the lovechild of the kinect and the wii’s IR receiver…but we still don’t know what the box looks like.
Why is this so important?
I don’t know. But it is!
This is definitely on my DO WANT list though.
ZX Spectrum is 30
Tiny little case versus hewn-from granite box.
Horrid dead-flesh buttons with up to 5 functions each versus full-size touch-type-able keyboard AND user definable function keys,
256×192 screen resolution which featured migraine-inducing nasty attribute clashing versus 640 × 256 or 320 x 256 with colour and even Mode 7′s Teletext style…
BEEP command versus three channel polyphonic sound PLUS a noise channel (I won’t even mention ENVELOPE!)
Yes – I was an Acorn fan-boy.
Tiny little case versus hewn-from granite box.
Horrid dead-flesh buttons with up to 5 functions each versus full-size touch-type-able keyboard AND user definable function keys,
256×192 screen resolution which featured migraine-inducing nasty attribute clashing versus 640 × 256 or 320 x 256 with colour and even Mode 7′s Teletext style…
BEEP command versus three channel polyphonic sound PLUS a noise channel (I won’t even mention ENVELOPE!)
Yes – I was an Acorn fan-boy.
Not for me the juvenility of a ZX Spectrum, I had the real deal, the full nine yards, the Gibson Les Paul – a full-fat gold-top BBC Model B.
Most of my friends had ZX Spectrums (and the odd C64), but I was evangelical in my zeal for the B.
Inside the tough (cream ABS plastic) exterior, however, I was crying just a little bit…
I had Elite (still my all-time favourite game) but my Spectrum pals were playing Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy and could PEEK and POKE their way to victory whilst my C64 buddies had Jeff Minter and all those camels.
No amount of sideways RAM and perforated keyboard ashtray slots could make up for all that.
Happy Birthday Speccy, your grass was greener..
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Scribbled by Ian
Fighting Fantasy goes mobile on iOS…Unreal!
Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson, the godfathers of roleplaying games, have given the go ahead to Epic to publish four iOS titles based on their classic Fighting Fantasy books.
If I mention Fighting Fantasy, do your eyes glaze over in a haze of nostalgia?
Do you also have an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch?
If you answered yes to both of these questions, turn to page 37.
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