Posts by ropie

The gaming habits of Reg readers revealed

Willf Ocus

I remember him from that children's television programme...

Twenty classic arcade games

Influential Graphics

I was never much of an arcade-machine user but Outrun inspired a lot of my GCSE art classes (many drawings of red Ferraris on cute single-point perspective roads) :)

Game over for legendary 1980s games designer Mike Singleton

Re: One of the greats

Midwinter was amazing.

I have a copy of Amtix magazine with large screenshots of Lords of Midnight in and it still strikes me as one of the few times that computer games came close to pure art - just beautiful :)

Head over Heels

Re: People keep reminding me of old isometric 3D games lately

Spindizzy - Yeah! My favourite of the 3d-Iso games. Absolutely dripping with 1980's multicolour proto-cyberspace charm, and impossible to progress more than a handful of screens.

NASA confirms first Earth candidate in habitable zone

600 light years ago?

So this means that if we were to beam a message of peaceful greeting there tomorrow, the earliest we could expect a reply sent by the same method would be 3212

Facebook disses Effin Irishwoman

Effin' whoopee do! Does anyone remember Jack Tuat and the Whale?

The life and times of Steven Paul Jobs

A fascinating read

about a fascinating human being, with a life story that will certainly be remembered over the coming century. Oddly, it seems that he is still out there somewhere, in the devices, code and systems that he worked so hard to sell.