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Back in the Day: The Video Games We Were Playing in April 1990

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Andrew Newton on the video games we were playing back in April 1990… April 1990 was a cold and wet month but the inclement weather provided an excellent excuse for staying indoors and playing on the good old home computers that all good gaming households had.  Whether it was the trusty 8-bit computer (Spectrum 128+2 […]

Dear Daisy Ridley: Here’s where the Star Wars love went

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Anghus Houvouras on where the Star Wars love has gone… If you had told me back in 1999 in the months that followed the release of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace that one day Star Wars would be in a more perilous place (creatively speaking), I would have chucked. Worse than the […]

Back in the Day: The Video Games We Were Playing in April 1980

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Andrew Newton on the video games we were playing in April 1980… Back in March 1980 home computer enthusiasts in the UK had the chance to part with their hard earned money and purchase the Acorn Atom from Acorn Computers.  This little marvel had 2 KB of ram (upgradable to 12 KB) and could be […]

Back in the Day: The Video Games We Were Playing in January 1990

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Andrew Newton on the video games we were playing in January 1990… Like this month, January 1990 was the first month of a brand new decade, one filled with the promise of new games, new technology and hours of enjoyment to be had.  This new feature series looks at games we were playing back during […]

Back in the Day: The Video Games We Were Playing in February 1980

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Andrew Newton on the video games we were playing back in February 1980… The 1980s were a wonderful decade that gave us some of the best music ever, some of the best movies and, more importantly, some of the best videogames.  The year 1980 saw the arrival of one of the most important computer brands […]

Back in the Day: The Video Games We Were Playing in February 1990

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Andrew Newton on the video games we were playing back in February 1990… Just like this month, February 1990 was plagued with storms with trees being uprooted, roof tiles being removed, flooding and worse.  The weather may have been making the country down in the mouth but on the gaming front things were doing much […]

Back in the Day: The Video Games We Were Playing in February 2000

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Andrew Newton on the video games we were playing back in February 2000… To veteran gamers the year 2000 isn’t even on the radar when it comes to retro-gaming, but to many it was the time they first experienced gaming computers and consoles, the first time they got to race, chase and shoot their way […]

Back in the Day: The Video Games We Were Playing in March 1990

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Andrew Newton on the video games we were playing back in March 1990… March 2020 is a pretty depressing time right now but for 10 minutes or so let’s go back 30 years, to a time when the UK witnessed the Poll Tax riots, Alain Prost won the Brazilian Grand Prix for Ferrari, Labour won […]

Countdown to No Time To Die: The Top 10 James Bond Stunts

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Chris Gelderd on the top 10 James Bond stunts… From a complicated fight arrangement in 1962s Dr. No that saw stuntman Bob Simmons double Sean Connery, to a set explosion that became a Guinness World Record Breaker in 2015s Spectre, the James Bond films have had one thread running through them that thrills audience as […]

Ranking the songs of Joe Exotic, Tiger King

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George Nash ranks the musical output of the infamous Tiger King… Joe Exotic, the eccentric subject of Netflix’s hit true-crime series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, is a man of many talents. Be it big cat breeding, 80s hairstyles or blowing things up in increasingly ludicrous ways, Exotic (aka Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joseph Schreibvogel), […]