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  1. I've been playing The Quarry, which is an interactive horror game. You get to play as 9 different characters who are trying to survive their last night at Hackett's Quarry summer camp. The decisions you make along the way affect the ending of the game, and there's a whopping 186 different endings. It's primarily a single player experience, but it can be played in local co-op where you take it in turns to play different characters, plus there is an online mode where 1 person plays the game, and up to 7 other people get to vote on what decisions are made, which could be pretty cool if you're streaming. It takes about 9 hours to do a single play through, but there is obviously a ton of replayability due to your decisions affecting what happens in the story. On Xbox Series X, the graphics are excellent, particularly the character models and facial animations. The writing is also really good and draws you in pretty quickly. I would say the only minor negatives are that sometimes the camera can be a bit quirky, plus it would be nice if there was a run button so you could get around a bit faster when you're exploring. The game is currently part of Game Pass on Xbox One/Series consoles, and it's also available on PS4, PS5 and PC. I highly recommend it if you like story-driven games, particularly if you're into horror.
  2. IIRC, the first one I played was Super ZX80 Invasion, which was a clone of Space Invaders for the ZX80. It was shite, due to the hardware being so weak; a 3MHz CPU with 1KB of RAM and no sound chip!
  3. If you're an old bastard UKer like me, when you were a kid you might have had one of several available home computers, the most popular for a time being the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, due to its low price. For many kids, it became their first time playing games that weren't on a console such as the Atari 2600, but it also opened up the doors for anyone to make and publish their own games. At the time, most games were produced by a single programmer over the course of a few weeks/months. Jet Set Willy was created by a guy called Matthew Smith, who had made a couple of games previously, including the legendary Manic Miner, which was the first game on the Spectrum to have in-game music; something once deemed impossible due to the hardware limitations. I remember Jet Set Willy fondly, but it was STUPIDLY hard, as almost all games of that era were. It was an action/adventure platformer, but to me it was more about discovering new rooms that your mates hadn't discovered than actually finishing the game, cos the latter felt so out of reach. Here's a good video about it: -
  4. @djdiggla Are you sure that's new? Anbernic bought one out about 3 years ago that looks like the Micro, but is a fair bit bigger: -
  5. I remember when those fake viruses were popular, especially this one: -
  6. I only had 56Kbps dial-up for quite a while, so it would take about 3 minutes per MB to download anything. I had to pay per-minute too, so it would be 3p per minute at peak times and 1p off-peak, on top of the phone line rental charges. The first time I got "broadband" it was 300Kbps, which got doubled to 600Kbps, which is about 450 times slower than what I have now, but at the time it was amazing. "PimpDawg", haha!
  7. Oh shit man, Dave The Ruf! I completely forgot about him. I also bought some records from him way back in the day.
  8. A new gameplay trailer: - I'm glad they're doing something a bit different with this, rather than standard hack/slash gameplay. I like the idea of rescuing and recruiting villagers during the day, then settings up your defences ready for the monsters to attack at night. Oh, and it's gonna be on Game Pass on day one! Excellent news.
  9. When did you first get internet access at home? How much of the early days of the web do you remember? I distinctly remember one of my friends showing me Google for the first time. I remember when Napster launched. I used to regularly chat with people in Yahoo!'s chat rooms using a third party program called Cheetah Chat. But pre-1998, I don't really remember anything, other than looking at porn sites where it took 5 minutes for a 10 second low-res clip to load.
  10. This is wicked: - https://app.suno.ai/ It will create songs for you based on the info you give it.
  11. Tonight I've been playing a F2P game called Queen's Quest 5: Symphony of Death. It's a point and click puzzle game. You play as an alchemist who is investigating the kidnapping of several children. You have to collect items, craft potions, and solve puzzles to progress through the story. On PC it's $15, but it's free to play on other platforms, including Xbox. You start off with 5 free hints you can use if you get stuck, then you can pay to get more if you need them, but given that there are walk-throughs on YouTube, you don't really need to do that. If you do want to support the developers the price of buying hints is super-cheap anyway, plus they give you 1 extra free hint every day. If you like chilled puzzle games, I'd definitely recommend it. Apparently it's 3-4 hours long, which is perfect for a game like this.
  12. What were you gonna do with that PDX-2000 anyway? Were you gonna get it out of storage and use it?
  13. Damn, I've never seen anything like that before. I wonder if it has anything to do with the foam/sponge part of the case lid that presses down on it.
  14. Google's AI is fucking jokes..... Abigail Shrier is the author of a handful of books, none of which have been shown to have killed anyone. Mao Zedong was a totalitarian politician whose policies were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 40-80 million Chinese people.
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