Tag: gaming

60 Second Gamer – Episode 53 – Super Mario Bros (NES)

The podcast is available at www.randomstoat.com Apart from a brief dalliance with a tape-based Atari system at some point in the 80s, my first experience of video games was with the Nintendo Entertainment System. Much like everyone else, we owned Super Mario Bros, however our version was on the same cart as Duck Hunt. Cut …

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Yet More Scriptwriting

This week I’ve found myself returning to my scriptwriting, as it’s gone by the wayside over the last couple of months. As usual there was no specific reason for this, but if I had to pin it down to anything is that I started writing the very first series of Trent Samuels, got halfway through …

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60 Second Gamer – Episode 50 – An American Tail (PS2)

Podcast available at www.randomstoat.com Yes, they even made a game based on An American Tail. Who are “they” you might ask? Obviously, it’s Blast Entertainment with another very cheap, very badly coded video game. I really do wonder what goes through their mind every time they purloin a new licence – Beverly Hills Cop? Sure, …

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60 Second Retro Gamer – Episode 49 – Paddington Bear (PS2)

The video above is Ant’s review, the one below is our complete play through of the game, overdubbed with our podcast. For the record, in the intro sketch that really is the sound of Tesco Value bread hitting me in the face. For those of you not in the know, there’s a video games company …

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60 Second Gamer – Episode 47 – Quantum of Solace (PS3/Xbox 360/PC)

Version reviewed is the PS3/Xbox 360/PC edition of the game. There are variations of the title with different features (and different developers) for PS2, Wii and the DS which we may review at a later date. I’ll admit right from the start that I’ve not played this one yet, so my witterings below are based …

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60 Second Gamer – Episode 46 – Journey (PS3)

Release day review from 60 Second Gamer – a first and quite impressive in my book! I’ll keep this brief (full blog entry coming tomorrow, as I missed out an update over the weekend). I’ll be honest and admit I hadn’t heard about Journey up until the week of release. I’m a regular reader of …

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