How does a site still pull traffic when we’ve effectively given up? How do people find the pages, the Web is a weird old place.. Happy 2024 everyone. P.S. Play Sea of Stars
Gato Roboto shorter is sweeter
I recently received the death knell notification from gamepass about Gato Roboto leaving this month. It’s been in my want to play list for a while now and this was the push to finally have a go. A deadline is a powerful motivator! The game is your classic metroidvania presented in glorious Speccy style graphics…
The Black Zone
An early Trance record from 1991, before the word Trance had any kind of stigma attached to it. Equal parts Techno, Trance and Rave (possibly even a little Industrial influence in there too). It’s popped up a couple of times on shuffle recently, taken from a German compilation CD entitled “Tekkkno Overkill”, which I imagine…
Uptown Not-Ranking
I assure you the revivified VGR is not solely a music splodge blog. In the interim here is a thing (loving, not-ranking). The first version of Uptown Top Ranking I ever heard (thanks ITV Chart Show!) still rocks in all its early ’90s goodness: The original Althea and Donna version still rocks in chill, dubby,…
Couple of Chill Classics
Nightmares on Wax – Les Nuits (1999) Lush. Boards of Canada – Left Side Drive (2006) Dreamy. Photo taken at Canon’s Ashby (National Trust) on Friday afternoon.
Bite My Tongue, Bide My Time
“What’s that Stevenger guy listening to these days?” asked no-one in a whisper. Happily I’m here to help! In fact yr in double-luck since most of these agéd choons (mostly new to me) have pretty decent videos on YouChoob. Back of the net! Audio Bullys – We Don’t Care You’ve heard the word “manchild”, yes?…
COVID..
Yeah what a prick this virus is but hey wear a mask, wash your hands and stop sharing biscuits with strangers. We will prevail! Also… Video games and taking a walk helps with the mental fatigue. For more advice seek a professional. Don’t lick windows or hand rails.
Galaga is not fun
There I said it. Some old games age like fine wine where as others as just corked supermarket shelf filler. Nostalgia a side of which I have none for Galaga means it does not hold up. The cold shadow cast by Modern day control technology shines down silently judging this abomination. A bit harsh maybe…
DANCE, DANCE, DANCE!
OK, so a friend who I’ll spontaneously, needlessly and unilaterally misnomer as “MIKEmichael ROMdance” (“MR” for short) linked everyone a bunch of songs to listen to on the group chat. Since he’s got a good ear for stuff I wouldn’t usually listen to and since I’m the King Of Kong Snake spamming said group chat…
We Need To Talk About Kevin Pinky And The Brain
I’ve had the show on my mind as a result of this rather fun (original voice actor featuring) cover of the Pinky And The Brain theme tune which is doing the rounds of social media. Before you click away, I’m not re-articulating the fun-but-now-trite observation that Animaniacs offshoot Pinky And The Brain‘s theme song is…
I BEAT* SPELUNKY [*didn’t beat]
OK, first off actually I haven’t completed roguelite platformer classic Spelunky. ‘Tis just a battle, not the war. I definitely have beaten it (for the moment) on my own terms though, which is what this post is ostensibly about. I’ve always wanted to talk a bit about what constitutes losing at games and I’ll fold…
WIBIL #26: Bread And Circuses
So there I was, mid-watching M. Night Grantthemanhisdignity‘s 2016 film Split on the NetFlix and talking during the film. You know me. The subject having necessarily turned to tweests, I commented to my semi-willing interlocutor that one of my favourite was at the end of a barely-remembered classic Star Trek episode. Naturally the next thing…
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