At last! We’ve been waiting for this Akton Films release for what seems like an age, but it’s finally out, and the verdict’s in - it’s fantastic. A well-paced tale of science-fiction, with surprisingly excellent special effects and a quality set of subtitles for those of us who can’t ‘do’ Spanish. Go watch it here.
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It’s been seventeen years since I first saw this picture. For seventeen years I’ve desperately wanted to play what is in all probability a terrible platform shoot-’em-up. Some people live in the hope that one day they will see the Spectrum version of The Great Giana Sisters. Me? I just want to see the 1990 […]

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So, eventually we arrived at our friends’ place for a quick bit of catching up before the aforementioned gathering of Spec-chums. A little food, a little drink, an introduction to the latest addition to the family (a guinea pig named Spike, which thankfully kept its bodily fluids to itself), and then on to a brief […]

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The story so far: Nathan and Jon are outside Oxford’s train station, wondering how to pay a quick visit to a friend who lives somewhere in the city.
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The driver almost yelled the word at us. Jon and I looked at each other with mild concern. Had Care in the Community progressed to the nightmarish conclusion […]

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So, Saturday was the day of the Spec-chum gathering in Oxford. Both myself and mysterious background ‘fixer’ for YS3, Mr Jonathan Hyde, were in attendance. But first - we had to get there!
Leaving Bristol is, truly, a wonderful thing. There’s nothing quite like getting on a train that’s going far away from all the building […]

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Those of you who are likely to go are no doubt already going, so this post isn’t really to tell you all about it and that hey, maybe you should come down to Oxford with the rest of us It’s more to say that hey, I’m going, and I’m going to find out if maybe […]

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