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Two Fat Ladies – The Gaming Ties That Bind

Many a friendship starts, and some end, over videogames – Rodent Forumite Twistedscrote, writes about one of the good ones: Ahhhhh competition, it’s what makes gaming the utter joy that it is. There’s something so primitive about beating another human-being and getting your ‘smug on’ to annoy them. I’m luckier than most people, I’ve had [...]

The MAMEing of the Tempest

Presenting the Rodent guide to building the perfect MAME cab for as little cash-money as possible… You will need: Enough random PC bits and bobs to cobble together a basic MAME capable PC… This is going to be the only expense incurred in building this cab – as I’ll have to buy a motherboard to [...]

FUNSPOT 2009. It’s only bloody here!

http://www.funspotnh.com/ – the Spot for Fun indeed. We’ve mentioned it before but the annual rodent trip to FUNSPOT is NOW happening. Time to get up at 5am this morning and before we know it we’ll be there. If anyone else is due to go, then please do look us up – we’re the pasty looking [...]

FUNSPOT is a-comin!

FUNSPOT. A “spot” for fun – what can be better than that? Exactly. If you have any interest in classic arcade games (or indeed very yellow websites) then you can do a lot worse than go to http://www.funspotnh.com/ and take a look at what they are all about. The annual rodent trip to FUNSPOT isn’t [...]

Rodentia Game Challenge – Arcadia (C64)

Over at the rodent forums, the ever illustrious Mamemeister run’s a fantastic little weekly games competition. While we won’t bang on about it here every week, every so often there is an absolute gem that needs mention. Here we have just that – Arcadia on the Commodore 64. Take it away Mamemeister: Anyone who’s old [...]

Man vs Machine

“Games ain’t as good as they used to be in the old days…dribble dribble”. Find a room of 30 somethings that like a bit o’ gaming and that’s what you’ll no doubt hear all day long and hands up, I’m one of the buggers usually leading the charge. You can literally wade through articles and [...]