Been playing…

Been playing…

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The Darkness. The lovely melatonin bought me this several years ago as a Secret Santa gift. I played it for a couple of hours, got bored, and stopped. Many years later I played Syndicate, a game by the same team that made The Darkness. Having loved Syndicate, I decided to revisit The Darkness to see if I was a little…
MGM – Biggest. Letdown. Ever.

MGM – Biggest. Letdown. Ever.

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Steel Battalion. You know, the one that came with the huge controller designed specifically for the game. So huge you had to assemble it yourself with an allan key. The huge controller with 40 buttons (all of which lit up as they had LEDs underneath them), two full size sticks, a gear stick with light-up gear indicators, several switches, a…
MGM – Scary game is not scary. Or is it?

MGM – Scary game is not scary. Or is it?

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"Oh man, this game is so scary, you need to play it!", said my cousin Stuart, handing me a copy of Resident Evil for the Sega Saturn shortly before going on holiday. My Mum and brother were going on holiday with him, so I had the house to myself for a week. All alone in a house, at night, curtains…

MGM – Red wine, cheese on toast and N.O.M.A.D.

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This is one of my earliest memories, I was still in Middle School at the time. I was staying round my friends house and when his Mum went to bed, we silently made our way downstairs. We put the Spectrum +3 on and played this really odd game called N.O.M.A.D., made ourselves some cheese on toast and had a glass…
MGM – Why wait for Christmas?

MGM – Why wait for Christmas?

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I like this one, it speaks volumes about the person I used to be - and reminds me never to be that kind of person again. It was October or November, 1991 or 1992. I forget, it was a long time ago. David had asked for a Sega Megadrive II videogame console for Christmas. Mum told me she had bought…
MGM – Total Penetration

MGM – Total Penetration

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This is one of my earliest, and fondest gaming memories. One day, my Dad came and picked me up from school in his car. He very rarely did this. He told me he had something very special to show me when we got home - I'm sure he then took the long way home, as the car journey that should…

MGM – DIY Lemmings

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As I said in this article, I used to be a big Amiga fan. It wasn't just the games I enjoyed, but all kinds of other things, like trying my hand at synthesising music (which was awful) and making landscapes in Vista (which always, after 2 hours of rendering, seemed to have a tree right in front of the camera,…

MGM – I just did a Super Combo!!!

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Now, before you read this, bear in mind that Super Street Fighter II had only just been released. I'd never played it, and I'd never even attempted doing TWO quarter circle forward motions and then hitting ALL THREE kick buttons at once. One day we went to Lazer Quest in Ocean Village in Southampton as they were having a free-play…

MGM – Ridge Racer on holiday

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After leaving school, it must've been 1994 or thereabouts, I went on holiday to Burnham-on-Sea with my best friend and his Mum and Dad. In between getting smashed on Newcastle Brown Ale and being accused of rape (another story for another time), we spent a lot of time in the arcade there, the highlight being a big sit-in version of…
MGM – The most pointless thing I’ve ever won

MGM – The most pointless thing I’ve ever won

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I was once a keen Amiga enthusiast and I used to read Amiga Format. They ran competitions every month, but I never entered any. David and I were visiting our Father one weekend, and Amiga Format was running it's biggest competition ever, two whole pages of general knowledge questions - the prize was an Amiga 570 CD Drive. As there…