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Deadpan Flook

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Living a life of new games, retro games, game books, comics and all sorts of retro nostalgia….but mostly games! (Was flook666 on the bird site)

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Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · Apr 28

Started rearranging some shelves….

#retro #80s #90s #retrogaming

A shelf showing such wonders as ZX spectrum games including several Dizzy/Codemasters collections, Storyteller tapes, a Sectaur figure, A Tomy Robot, a Madball, Get Along Gang figures, ZX Ghostbuster and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, a Fisher Price Adventure People Alien in his spaceship and more Spectrum games.

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Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 19h

Spook Sightings of Yester Year - No.27 - The Case of The Will of Thomas Harris

#GhostStories #GhostSightings #Halloween #CountdownToHalloween

Spook Sightings of Yester Year - No.27 - The Case of the Will of Thomas Harris

(This illustration is from The IngoldsbyLegends (1848ish) and is by John Leech. It has absolutely nothing to do with this story!) From the...

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Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks man…..seems to be working alright again now though!

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Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 1d

The Ancient Mariner is tonight's comic strip on The Blog of Stuff, and provides a great excuse to listen to Iron Maiden too!

#Halloween #Horror #Comics #IronMaiden

The Ancient Mariner!

Yeah, yeah...So I missed yesterday! I had to head back to the parents' house, and by the time I got back and got set up, it was almost midn...

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Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 1d

Ta...can't access it at all here

Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 1d

Anybody else having problems accessing archive.org ?

Been having issues since last night (UK) @archive.org

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 3d

A Vintage comedy horror in the Cinema of Stuff tonight....

#Halloween #CountdownToHalloween #1940s #Horror #Films

Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff Haunt Cinema of Stuff, In.... "You'll Find Out!" (1940)

TONIGHT'S FEATURE Kal Kyser was an American bandleader and radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s. Keyser and his band toured Midwest re...

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Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 4d

On tonight's very late blog, I find some 1950's kid Halloween Party happenings courtesy of American puppeteer and singer, Shari Lewis......

#Halloween #PartyIdeas #1950s #ShariLewis

Halloween Party - Shari Lewis Style!

So I was a bit late due to streaming tonight, and missed the deadline of midnight....so that means you'll get 2 posts today! Anyway, I wa...

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Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 6d

The BBC Still Haunts My Blog...

Meet the Ghost Hunters (1975)

#Halloween #Ghosts #TVShows

The BBC Still Haunts my Blog......

So yesterday and today, Storm Amy has been battering the UK, and my parents and cousins have been suffering from power cuts and outages. So ...

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Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 7d

Bela Lugosi Haunts Cinema of Stuff, in....The Devil Bat!

#Halloween #HorrorFilms #BelaLugosi

Bela Lugosi Haunts Cinema of Stuff, In.......The Devil Bat!!!

TONIGHT'S FEATURE Bela Lugosi stars in this cult classic from 1940, about a Scientist who becomes annoyed at his employers, so creates bot...

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Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks dude,

Likewise for you!

Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 8d

That moment when your capture card stops working 10 minutes before the time you’ve posted everywhere that you’re going to be streaming…..😖😡

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Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 8d

Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 9d

It's that time of year again (somehow) so lets take our first trip this year to the Digital Comic Museum and witness...The Final Waltz!

#CountdownToHalloween #Comics #HorrorComics #Halloween

The Final Waltz!

For our first visit to the Digital Comic Museum this year, we blow the cobwebs off Story Comics' Dark Mysteries Issue 23, from May 1955. T...

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Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 9d

😂

As a kid, I once put white masking tape all over my mum's couch, creating little roads and spaghetti junctions everywhere and then put all my Micro Machines on it!

I think a photo existed, but it's since been lost.

Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 9d

Exactly how I view retro...used to be 10, now it's 15 years!

There are, of course, still those who complain about the PS1 being considered retro.... 😄

Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 9d

Doesn't work in retail mode, but it does with Dev Mode.

I paid a one off payment for Dev mode acouple of years back, but I heard it's free now. There are still some good guides on Youtube that take you through all the steps and links you'll need to get it set up. I still use it almost daily!

Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 9d

yeah, I said that in the next post! 😉

If you're only playing 6 or 7 (or less) games a year then you might as well unsub or go to a lower tier.

Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 9d

It's a matter of how many games you can get through, though. No point in paying loads if you're only going to play 2 AAA games and 5 indies.....

It's all a bit of a mess, and I'm still a bit unsure on whether I'll downgrade to Premium, but the more I think on it, I'll probably stick with Ultimate

Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 9d

If we get the rumoured AAA price increase to £80 per game after New Year then that gets you 4 AAA games, meaning Game Pass is still an ok deal...

However £276 will get you about 13-14 indie games at around £20 each. But I'm also guessing a lot of the '75 day 1 games' will be indies, so still good?

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Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 9d

If you're going to ditch it, instead fire up the now free Dev Mode, stick Retroarch/Dolphin/XBXS2 etc. on it, and use it as an emulation beast, and it is now the best glorified paper weight in the world.....

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Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · 9d

Been a tough couple of months with family drama, health, etc. but planning on getting back streaming tomorrow with a spooky, Halloween themed games stream at about 9pm UK time...

Drop by if you can for the first ever Gruesome Games live!

#CountdownToHalloween #retrogaming

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48ish-year-old gamer trying to finally decimate his backlog while making you watch him do it

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Vinny Mainolfi | FREEZE-ZX | ZX Spectrum @freeze-zx.bsky.social · Aug 25

FREEZE-ZX issue 02
Coming December 2025
Pre-order your copy TODAY from:
freeze64.com/freeze-zx-is...
#ZXSpectrum #Speccy #Z80 #Sinclair

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Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · Aug 25

And some more from the same issue....

#OldVideoGameAds

#C64 #ZXSpectrum #Amstrad #AtariST #MSX #retrogaming

Hades Nebula ad for Commodore, Spectrum and Atari ST in the style of black and white comic panels

Killed Until Dead ad for Commodore, Spectrum and Amstrad, showing a shotgun, noose, poison bottle, knife, drugs and a pistol on top of a grey surface, with some screenshots from the game beneath and a small image of a detective holding a magnifying glass in the bottom right corner

The Tube ad for Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, showing a blue rectangular spacecraft firing lasers in space above the curve of a green, heavily cratered planet or moon

Thing Bounces Back ad for C64, Amstrad, Spectrum and MSX, featuring a picture of the green frog-like-headed and footed, spring bodied thing on a spring, which is the character you control, with various anotations pointing to it's various body parts and explaining what features they have

Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hah! I didn't notice that when I read it either...😄

Deadpan Flook @deadpanflook.bsky.social · Aug 24

Have some more #OldVideoGameAds from C&VG, dated June 1987.

The games are Kinetik, Metrocross, Oink! and R.I.S.K.

#C64 #ZXSpectrum #Amstrad #AtariST #retrogaming

Kinetik ad for c64, Spectrum and Amstrad computers...showing two tower like structures with rounded edges, above a vast forest. A spherical ufo flyus over the top of the structures and at the back of the picture a rier can be seen with a curved pipe-style bridge crossing it as more forest stretches beyond.

Metrocross ad for Spectrum, Commodore, Atari ST and Amstrad computers, in which the image is tilted slightly to the left and showing a man in a red armoured suit, skating towards the camera along a blue and white tiled corridor with metal walls, with his right hand stretched out toward the camera. Some of the tiles are lifted, making them into small ramps, and a big red block has just been avoided by the skater to his left...

Oink! ad for the Commodore, Spectrum and Amstrad computers, showing Uncle Pigg, editor of Oink! comic and indeed, a pig, siting in his office chair playing a game on a computer that seems to feature the comic's superhero Rubbishman. There are screenshots at the bottom of the ad showing three mini-games....Pete's Pimple, which seems to be an arkanoid style game, Rubbish Man, which has you looking at the hero from a top down perspective as he navigates some corridors, and Tom Thug, another top down game where you flick between screens in Tom's Thug-Mobile

R.I.S.K. ad for the Commodore, which sees two one-seater plane-type spaceshipsfiring lasers at another red ship in the foreground which is a close up view of a helmeted and visored man sitting in said craft holding the steering wheel, as he trys to dodge the incoming laser fire

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