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2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 8h

Mick McMahon

Sham Mountebank @shammountebank.bsky.social · 10h

A 1996 game called Harvester. It thought it had something important to say about violence in computer games. It didn't. It was painfully stupid.

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 22h

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

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Sham Mountebank @shammountebank.bsky.social · 11h

I don't think it was Steven Moffat's place to resolve RTD's Time War story.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged Doctor Who opinion. I mean, if you’re a fan, they’re likely all unhinged anyway.

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Tim Dickinson @thetimdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

The Chairs of Doctor Who - new chair day!
In fact, two from 'Dragonfire'. This first one is an
‘Etruscan’ chair, by Danny Lane, designed in 1984.
Also, the elusive French wire chair, circa 1950.
Post updated. pinkforyouractualpterodactyl.com/2020/02/24/t...

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filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 3d

3 key members and trustees of the Film is Fabulous! team joined Tim of the 'Missing Episodes Podcast'

Film collector John Franklin, De Montfort University’s Prof Justin Smith & Sue Malden, renowned former Head of Broadcast Archives at BBC
YouTube Link
youtu.be/CK02j_Mi6iE?...

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Iain Mew @superchartisland.com · 2d

Commando, directed by Capcom's Tokuro Fujiwara, was a big 1985 arcade hit. Elite Systems won the bidding for the home computer rights, staking their future on it succeeding there too. Now they just had to make those versions of the game by Christmas...

New post: www.superchartisland.com/commando

Commando – “Now rush the 2nd area”

1985 was quite a year for Tokuro Fujiwara. He had earlier started his career at Konami, joining from Osaka Designers’ College to do visual design work, initially without realising it was a video ga…

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Sham Mountebank @shammountebank.bsky.social · 3d

Two different computer games both called Aliens: The Computer Game and both released by Electric Dreams. It was confusing.
whereweretheynow.blogspot.com/2025/10/elec...
#RetroGaming #RetroComputing #Amstrad #Commodore64 #ZXSpectrum #Amiga #AtariST

Electric Dreams

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 5d

Brand new on Dirty Feed: what was special about the Fawlty Towers episode "Basil the Rat"?

Short version: it had two days in the studio, while every other episode only had one.

Long version: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/10/tc8-...

Fawlty Towers, "Basil the Rat": the Major spots the offending creature in the bar.

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Sham Mountebank @shammountebank.bsky.social · 6d

The CGI effects are technically impressive but I wanted to play around with the studio footage itself.

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Sham Mountebank @shammountebank.bsky.social · 6d

I really like Castrovalva but I think the ending suffers because what's on screen does not sell the idea that space is folding in on itself. I've had a go at adding some visual distortion, hopefully, in line with what was technically possible in 1981.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Oq... #DoctorWho

"Fixing" Castrovalva

YouTube video by Agent Orange

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filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 8d

Terry Burnett’s Collection

Film is Fabulous! are cataloguing the private collection of the late Terry Burnett, who was famous for returning two missing episodes of Doctor Who to the BBC in 2010, and later returned a missing episode of Hugh and I.

filmisfabulous.org.uk/terry-burnet...

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2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 8d

Massimo Belardinelli

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Iain Mew @superchartisland.com · 9d

www.superchartisland.com/winter-games

Picking a whole different season of sports was also a great idea to stand out from the pack. Furthermore, the more complex nature of those sports with their equipment worked better for Epyx’s approach in getting away from joystick-waggling too. This is well demonstrated by biathlon. Which is perhaps no surprise, as it is arguably one of the more video game-y sports out there: a version of some people's everyday means of getting around, interrupted arbitrarily to shoot a gun for a bit. It’s one event where frantic joystick waggling does come in, for its uphill skiing sections, but the smarter emphasis throughout is on rhythm, and even waggling at joystick-endangering speed puts you at risk of slipping up when you have to switch back for a rhythmic flat section after.

[Screenshot of Winter Games showing a skier about to go over a bridge over an icy stream]

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𝒑𝒔𝒚𝒄𝒐𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒕 @psycohousecat.bsky.social · 12d

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Sham Mountebank @shammountebank.bsky.social · 11d

That's long overdue to escape from the vaults.

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Sham Mountebank @shammountebank.bsky.social · 12d

2/2 ...approval from the Anthony Coburn estate.

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Sham Mountebank @shammountebank.bsky.social · 12d

It's The Masters of Luxor. All of it. In an amazing development, it turns out the story was recorded but the episodes went unused, like what happened with the original Planet of Giants parts 3 and 4.
The best bit. My source tells me the release is ready to go now. 2 Entertain just need 1/2

Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 12d

From the Film Is Fabulous Facebook page:

Facebook comment from Film is Fabulous to Justyn Adderley: "Thanks. As mentioned by Sue Malden at our RECOVERED event in May, we are aware of several missing episodes of Doctor Who (Sue stated one of two, but there are more than this) in private film collections in the U.K. We are liaising with the individuals about cataloguing and preserving their entire collection, including the missing Doctor Who episodes, and ensuring that copies are returned to the BBC. We expect to make a detailed announcement shortly."

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Iain Mew @superchartisland.com · 12d

ICYMI my post this week was about a platformer which had a Famicom release in 1987 with completely different characters and "Doki Doki" in its title.

Yes, it's Monty on the Run:

www.superchartisland.com/monty-on-the-run

Monty on the Run – “Bon Voyage Monsieur Le Monty”

Manic Miner did not have very much to say about mining. Its name and ostensible theme came from Miner 2049er, but anything mine-related was incidental to all the other weird and wonderful things it…

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 13d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Sham Mountebank @shammountebank.bsky.social · 13d

I also like the bloke at the back of this shot demonstrating how closing credits were done.

Sham Mountebank @shammountebank.bsky.social · 14d

A picture of Og, from the Blake's 7 episode Animals.

A picture of Keir Starmer saying "That's real Britain."

Sham Mountebank @shammountebank.bsky.social · 15d

Who Knobs for Adonais?

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Sham Mountebank @shammountebank.bsky.social · 16d

I missed Load Runner completely. I was getting Eagle until my mum said it was too expensive at 22p per issue.

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Sham Mountebank @shammountebank.bsky.social · 16d

That's definitely too much Silver Nemesis.

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Sham Mountebank @shammountebank.bsky.social · 17d

A Look at Load Runner. The galaxy's first ever computer comic, apparently. A 1983 comic from the publisher who brought you Sinclair User. whereweretheynow.blogspot.com/2025/09/load... #RetroGaming #RetroComputing

Load Runner: The Galaxy's First Computer Comic

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