Tag archive: Amstrad

8-Bit Agonies: Death Wish 3

Gangs. Horrible, nasty gangs. They won’t be happy till they’ve raped and burned and killed us all (while covering our nicer buildings in graffiti). They are evil (just for the sake of it). They are also (as 70s cinema has… continue reading »

8-Bit Agonies: World Games

Oh, Track & Field (a.k.a Hyper Olympic), how I loved thee (and love thee still). Devourer of 20ps. Shatterer of fingers and thumbs. Constant companion during long, lonesome, rainy summers in 1980s Kerry. Pity all home versions of thee were… continue reading »

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 CPC 464 (affectionately known as the Arnold). Though I’d previously played the Atari 2600, various home versions… continue reading »

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 out another absorbing extract. When last we looked in on my younger self I was waxing… continue reading »