Songs for the Bewildered: Space Invaders
As part of an ongoing project to make my 14-month-old daughter as gargantuan a nerd as her daddy, I recently decorated half her room...
Video Games Category
Degradation and Deviancy: Signs, Pt. 3
Yesterday afternoon I spent several minutes wandering around a very large shopping centre car park. Though this was not, I'm happy...
20 GOTO 10
Before the NES, the SNES, the N64, the…well you can see the pattern – there was, in the old family homestead, the Amstrad...
A lit bomb left unattended does not explode…
Back when I was a passionate twiddler of joysticks (and joypads), a well-known "rule" stated that video games based on movies were...
To Whom it Concerns…It’s The Manky Toy Show (Live)!
9.00 – Hup! Hup! Quiet down now.
Welcome dear friends, lads and lassies, boys and girls, mices and meeses, to the first ever...
Manky Toy Monday: Invader
Even by the modest standards set by previous entries in the Manky Toy archives, last week's featured object (Super Pedestal Ball)...
And the Yellow God Forever Gazes Down
He was known as"Mad Carew" by the subs at Khatmandu,
He was hotter than they felt inclined to tell;
But for all his foolish pranks,...
Five Sons of the Devil Will Entertain You
Recent talk of prizes and awards has put me to thinking. Though I come from a reasonably competitive family (competitive in the "I...
Joystick Waggling and Button Bashing: Memoirs, Pt. 2
Due to popular demand (or at least the absence of popular opposition) I’m dipping into my Letts Boy's Diary 1986 once more to pull...
