Monkeyspill

I think I’d only use BC for playing new PS4 games on a PS5 (assuming we’re talking Sony). I have barely any discs for old systems left and although I have some PS3 digital content, there’s pretty much zero chance of being able to redownload (for free).

Just found it! Looks like I’ll be plugging the PSVR back in.

Jeff Minter has a new game?

Leaderboard Golf must have been one of the first 3D golf sims. I seem to remember having a fast loader pirated copy on a bumper C90 along with Commando, Ghosts and Goblins, Matchpoint Tennis, and about 20 others. It impressed me how dirty pirates could make a hacked version load in about a third of the time of the official cassette.

It always seemed like a good game but I never managed to work it out. In the days when games came with (and needed) instruction manuals, I never bothered to read them.

I sort of figured it out in the end. I was manually moving the legion which didn’t work. Locking on seems to be the way to do it but the legion is often too slow to get to each generator before the force field closes (or is out of energy so I just get hurt). I got to the last bit eventually but without any hearts left or healing so I’ve started file 11 again. Also sometimes the legion was getting trapped in, and hurt by, the forcefield; while other times it could just pass through it. Maybe it was the wrong legion?

I’m on, I think, the last boss and I’m having exactly the same problem as I had on the very first boss:

Transformers Armada on PS2 impressed me. I’d never seen such a long draw distance over massive levels. Or such huge bosses.

Half an hour into In the Tall Grass and I’m bored. Maybe I need more beer.

This took a bit of editing in photoshop as the film was dented and scanned shit (Provia 100). Every shot I took of this corridor fucked up. The Rolleiflex shutter gets stuck open at 1 second (or close to) exposures. I’m worried the mechanism won’t last much longer.

I really like that. Did you use a tripod because it’s very clear for bulb mode? Mine came out a smeary mess.

It’s really hit and miss with a Holga. You’re always risking whatever film you stick in it. Mine doesn’t even fit together properly so I had to tape it all up with electrical tape. I think part of the enjoyment of film is the risk.

Nice. What speed film did you use? Last time I tried to use a Holga I messed it all up. I had left the exposure switch on bulb without realising. I got all the rolls back and they were all a blurry burnt out mess. I also left the lens cap on for a few shots.

It’s an obvious choice but GTA 3 when it first came out. I don’t think I’d seen that level of freedom and interaction before in something that wasn’t just text or an RPG. The bit that really amazed me was driving a boat across the water to the second island (I think it was a boat) and you realise those buildings over there, in the background, actually aren’t the background because you can get to them.