A long time ago, in a newsgroup far, far away, your humble editor wrote a trilogy of screenplays for films starring Jon and Bob as Detectives Jon and Bob. The Lethal Penguin trilogy was planned to lead into an episodic television or comic series. While five seasons worth of material was...

I’ll start by mentioning the interminable scandal over MPs’ expenses, which is rapidly descending into the land of boredom. Yes, we’re all heartily fed up of these people, but there’s something faintly nauseating about patronising news presenters who are being paid...

Or, at least, the Retro Remake competition is (although it’s conceivable that Sir Bob the Cousin might be “go” as well in a Norwegian F-14 or the like). Yes, that’s right, the Retro Remake competition is officially up and running! Click on those blue words back there...

Helloooo! Having a lovely time! Wish you were here! How’s the weather? Say hello to the cat lady for me and make sure she has enough kit-e-kat to be going on with.  So I here I was wondering what on earth I could do as a first post to this new incarnation of YS3 when a rather large...

You may recall Mr Paul Dunn’s rather fine Spectrum BASIC interpreter/emulator featured in this article. Well, good as it was then, it’s even better now! Go and grab the latest version here.

Here. Here is what is wrong with the world. Exhibit One: Exhibit Two: And now that our annual journalistic responsibility to get people to think about the way evil people are trying to make them think has been discharged, we return you to your irregularly scheduled...

I say crisis, I mean of course Crysis. It cost me two hundred quid to get a graphics card that could play it and a power supply that could power the graphics card, and the heat my PC now generates means beachwear is now a gaming requirement, but it’s quite a fun little game really. But...

Antique Toy, the virtual demoparty, has had this year’s entries and now needs your help to decide who the winners are. There are three categories – graphics, music, and ‘experimental sound’ – and the entries in each are well worth a look. You can download the...

Or perhaps you do. There’s only one way to find out really, and that’s to take Daren Pearcy’s test. It’s an easier version of an earlier test (that nobody got more than fifty percent on). For reference, I scored...

I don’t really read much news these days. When the papers are full of lies and the BBC is threatened with legal action for telling the truth, there’s not many sources for information on the outside world (at least, there aren’t if you’re not interested in what Britney...

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...

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....