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Five Gifts

March 4, 2012

I received a great many gifts for my birthday. Too many! Here’s five of them, from five different people.

From JAF I received this stunning Lego kit (reviewed as one of the best Technic kits ever made):

From SFL I received a very clever Star Wars t-shirt (can you get the joke?):

From myself I received Heuvelman’s legendary opus from 1965 on sea monsters:

From JBF I received a Kuroneko Figma:

And from KLS I received an unopened box of trading cards. Note the warning on the bottom:

I’ll update to include BFS’s gift when it arrives 😉

The Snow Train

March 3, 2012

Today, to celebrate my birthday, we’re going on the ‘Snow Train’ up to Gore Moutain.

Here’s a photo of me sitting in our first class ‘dome car’ waiting for the trip to start:

Grid runner

February 25, 2012

The new Llamasoft iOS game is out, and what did Mr Minter bring us this time?

He wrote a blog post about how easy it was to port the game to iOS using (IIRC) some old ST code. Since it was so quick and easy, and the release is so close after Caverns of Minos, the sheer brilliance of this game was unexpected. It’s a major update of the game that made him famous 30 years ago.

His iOS games always have a hardware theme, and until now he’s done 2600, Intellivision, Vic 20 etc. Gridrunner is ‘1980’s arcade game’, and he’s absolutely nailed it, since the graphics bring to mind a classic such as Galaxian. Of course only in spirit, since I doubt this madness was possible in those old arcade boards:

This game is only $0.99, and it’s close to perfect tablet gaming. Absolutely gets my highest recommendation, and if your initials are AW and you don’t have an iOS device games like this is why you should get one ASAP 🙂

Oh yes… It has the Vic 20 and C64 versions included (rotate the device to landscape):