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Lord of the Rings on the SNES. Boring plod about to many but I still keep going back.

if the tables had been turned and he launched his machine two years after the direct competition then he'd have been blown away. Still who am I to judge? But isn't the point that one was a visionary and came up with the idea 2 years before the other, so obviously deserved the success more? He also ...

For people having trouble with the SNES emulator: Which one are you using? I've noticed there's around half a dozen different ones that vary wildly in quality but all have very similar names. The first two I downloaded were absolutley gash but the one I'm using at the minute has been great. I'm usin...

I think I can speak for the majority of the CPC fanbase when I say that he was a tosser. .... sadly, I think you'll find the majority of Amstrad owners have a signed colour photograph of him in a gold frame adorning the wall above their bed (with Alan Sugar pillowcase and quilt set), and regularly ...

Going back to Amstrad users feelings towards Sugar: I think I can speak for the majority of the CPC fanbase when I say that he was a tosser. The relative success of the CPC (for a Z80 based machine launched two years after the Spectrum had already got a foothold on the UK market) was in spite of Ams...

First game I paid my own money for was Jon Ritman's Batman on the CPC.

Still a favourite.


And completely wiped from memory that abortion of a game Er*Bert that I bought a couple of weeks earlie... oh buggeration....

Its all about the visual. Its a unique style that's never been replicated. The story itself is pretty hokey, particularly nowadays where the whole 'sucked into the computer' concept isn't just a cliche, its a dated one. Think about the first time you saw The Matrix. That's sort of like Tron was in ...

Blink was great (especially when you consider the Doctor was barely in it) but the last two were brilliant as well (Human Nature/Family of Blood) - one of the best Doctor Who stories ever. Character wise it was tremendous. Building nicely for the finale... I voted Davidson by the way - vastly underr...

Temple of Doom gets a bit of a rough ride I think and it's mostly because it is, understandably, compared to Raiders and Crusade. It's a completely different animal to the others and you can see Lucas and Speilberg's thinking in trying to emulate Empire and making it a little darker. Raiders is an a...

Paperboy with handlebars! First clapped eyes on it at the Magnum Centre in Irvine. Loved the premise, the music, the sounds, the graphics, the controls everything! If only the missus would let me chop up her old exercise bike and try and create some monstrous controller hybrid. That'd be cool/insane...

Fourth Protocol?

Erm... OMD's Greatest Hits. Reasons for which escape me.

If it was up to me I'd strap a lock on this thread

These puns are really winding me up

Thanks guys - I'll have a closer look at them when I'm in work tomorrow (easy to palm that off as real work)