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True story, this is the photo Crammond based the entire videogame on. Honest.

Adventure Rocket Ship Woke up way too early in the morning this morning so I figured it was as good a time as ever to enjoy myself by ploughing through a few hours worth of Robyn Hitchcock performances because very little cheers me up even half as much. I’m a firm believer that Hitchcock is a…

Adventure Rocket ShipWoke up way too early in the morning this morning so I figured it was as good a time as ever to enjoy myself by ploughing through a few hours worth of Robyn Hitchcock performances because very little cheers me up even half as much. I’m a firm believer that Hitchcock is a pretty amazing straight up songwriter (I think it was Michael Stipe who said that Arms Of Love, …spooky.punchingrobots.com

I did the Miriam Webster thing and got “ug”, “cave”, “fire”, “bone” and “tree”

More archive rummaging. The wonderful DATA JAMMERS.

Data JammersFrom The Archive Data Jammers combines three of my favourite things. Digital Eel, Motorways and a Kenta Cho circa 2005-6 aesthetic. Honestly, if you really want to know the way to my heart, it’s not flowers, it’s things that go brum brum vroom in neon colours. Obviously if you can make some flowers that go brum brum vroom in neon colours then maybe we can talk about that but until then, Datajammers it is.spooky.punchingrobots.com

You’d think this many rounds in, more journalists would just be like “yes, of course you did dear, well done” at the LLM salesmen.

Digitalization is progressing” sounds like something that fell out of a last minute replacement Doctor Who script.

rockstar have a marketing plan and are sticking to it, says leaker, also rockstar have deployed some code to the website any time you want to stop reporting shit like this is absolutely dandy, lads

More archive rummaging, Split/Second write up rescued from 2010. #TombOfTat

Split/Second (From the archives)I’m not the greatest fan of racing games. Actually, scratch that – I’m not the greatest fan of racing games that aren’t Outrun 2. Yet I still end up buying them. Clearly, I’m not right. Just a quick glance at some of the stuff I’ve bought over the past 18 months or so and I’ve somehow ended up with a disproportionate amount of the buggers.spooky.punchingrobots.com

Fucking haunted by this. I need a memory wipe.

Tells thee what, all this talk of schools training kids for the jobs in the local area is going to mean we are going to have the most incredible charity shop workers round here by the time their education is over.

Rescued from the archive, a small piece on DOS Atic Atac remake, The Burps.

The BurpsMolyneux only knows what year it was and Molyneux only knows where my boss got it from but at some point in the nineties, he let me (“providing I could carry it myself”) take his excessively weighty PC round to my own home and nestling there amongst all these other games was The Burps. The Burps is, give or take a tweak or seven, Ultimate’s Atic Atac remade for DOS by…spooky.punchingrobots.com

Line Go Up (Unwinnable) At some point in the distant human past, someone traded something they did not want for something they did. The person they traded with likely didn’t want the thing they traded away as much as they wanted the thing they didn’t have. This may have been the most colossal…

Line Go Up (Unwinnable)At some point in the distant human past, someone traded something they did not want for something they did. The person they traded with likely didn’t want the thing they traded away as much as they wanted the thing they didn’t have. This may have been the most colossal error humanity has made. The ever excellent Unwinnable here with a potted history of rot culture…spooky.punchingrobots.com

”Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters…” Nah. You know, that’s enough internet today.

Yeah, like I appreciate the effort and all that but I don’t think you’re going to get Tory boy there to think “hmm, working with a fascist war tech guy is a bad idea” no matter how cute Croc might be to you,

Every time I end up on that site for some reason, I just wander off thinking “why are you like this” and retreat back to my happy places

“Hater week” Man alive, it is twenty twenty six.

The soundtrack to Beatdown City Survivors *is* full on excellent. Not just in the track choices - all completely new to me, obv - but in just how perfectly they fit with the game's vibe. Excellently compiled.

Reminding folk of The Official Sequence Of Videogames for when they’re planning sequels and naming things.

The Official Sequence Of VideogamesJust for the record, the official sequence of videogames is: 1. 2. : Harder3. III: Back In Training4. [g]45. Kart6. (it’s a reboot) (originally published on Take This Machine: 28th March 2015)spooky.punchingrobots.com

Warning From Space I know people like to take the piss out of the star-shaped aliens from Warning From Space but really, I adore them. You see, partly the art of a good creature costume in cheap sci-fi for me is that I can look at a still, think “that is so cool” *and* immediately know what film…

Warning From SpaceI know people like to take the piss out of the star-shaped aliens from Warning From Space but really, I adore them. You see, partly the art of a good creature costume in cheap sci-fi for me is that I can look at a still, think “that is so cool” *and* immediately know what film the creature belongs to. You cannot mistake the Pairan for anything in any other film.spooky.punchingrobots.com

Ah man, gutted for all the Double Fine folk.