Yeah, I’d love to see a romhack that splits the difference, e.g. has one of the conveyor belt and the buzzsaw, but not both.

Probably the weakest of the Monster World games, but I have a soft spot for it.

Ever play the western version of Monster World 3 on the Mega Drive, Wonderboy in Monster World? The end boss got “rentalled” to the point where there simply is no correct way to beat it. You just have to have enough health and armour power ups, and a lot of luck, and survive a war of attrition.

It helps that the prose style is heavily influenced by Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op stories. Keeps it tight and gives it an in-world everyday feel, even if those days are (or were) quite different from the present.

That same tightness does offer little explanation of the unfamiliar, though.

Each Beatle made one landmark solo work.

Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
McCartney - RAM
Ringo - Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends

Try moving to the antipodes, you will discover that you lived an unacceptably risky life of excitement and danger, simply by virtue of eating beef in the UK during the 1980s.

Kiki and Coco have neighbourhood clones known as Fakiki and Fauxcoco.

They do talk about how the Yamaha DX7 “ruined” music in the 80s though, when the root cause was very similar: FM is hard, so people used the presets. The general public at the time didn’t care.

I give a pass to Christmas Time by The Darkness, as being able to quietly sing along to lyrics about bellends and ringpieces in a retail situation feels like a little break from all the emotional labour.

It was quite a weird experience when first I got a Super NT and an SD2SNES, kind of mentally joining up these distinct experiences as two halves of a single system.

Poor thing has been sitting dusty in a drawer since I got my MiSTer, I really should sell it!

There are two eras of SNES nostalgia for me - the console's original PAL lifespan, back in my early teens, then the PC emulator explosion in the late 90s.

First era: Super Mario World, Street Fighter 2, Mario Kart.

Second era: FF6, Chrono Trigger, Seiken Densetsu 3, Soul Blazer, Super Metroid.

Never got to see the Stone Roses, but I did get to see Mani live once. Thoughts on mortality below.

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I saw him with Primal Scream on the XTRMNTR tour. The rest of the band were all dressing to an image, but he came on in jeans and a well worn t-shirt, nothing to prove, and played the most massive, locked-in grooves all night. Big Dad energy, really great.

Christ, he was younger than I am now.

Tons of albums - as someone who would normally be interested in an artist of his profile, I find his prolificity puts me right off.

I have no idea where to start, and part of me really doesn’t want to run the risk of liking his music and ending up chasing down more than a hundred albums.

This is exactly why I didn’t get on with Fusion, I felt like that damn computer’s maid.

The weather outside *is* frightful, then…

Mine are staying in the loft until 1st December. Joyeux Mutato is the traditional ice-breaker!