Apr 27, 2022Elon Musk & TwitterI’ve decided to pull the trigger, I’ll be walking away from twitter and closing down the account I’ve managed to hang onto the longest, the reason I’m walking away was the news that Elon Musk had bought Twitter, yes I’m a liberal snowflake (it goes with the territory) and yes…Elon Musk3 min readElon Musk3 min read
Aug 7, 2021The Suicide Squad.The Suicide Squad takes the Dirty Dozen formula and runs with it, starting with a returning Viola Davis as Amanda Waller putting another team together for a basic behind enemy lines infiltration of a hostile nation men on a mission plot, before ramping up the comic book bizarreness until eventually…The Suicide Squad4 min readThe Suicide Squad4 min read
Jul 27, 2021Masters of the Universe: RevelationThe original He-Man and The Masters of the Universe debuted in September of 1983 and was primarily devised as a glorified advert to sell a Mattel action figure line of the same name that had been released the year before, that it was anything more than that was thanks to…He Man4 min readHe Man4 min read
Feb 27, 2021The Jewish Question.The Jewish Question? No wait, don’t go, this isn’t a Daily Stormer article or a deconstruction of Marx’s ‘Zur Judenfrage’ it’s more a quick dive into the history of antisemitism, by me, neither a scholar or blessed with much in the way of intelligence, it’s just the equivalent of a…History18 min readHistory18 min read
Apr 11, 2020Commodore Amiga CD32The CD32 represented the last gasp of a dying company, a machine that the company hoped would take on the mighty Sega in America and Europe but ended up sinking without a trace, the CD32 often takes the blame for bringing down the once mighty Commodore, but like with most…Commodore4 min readCommodore4 min read
Apr 9, 2020NEC PC EngineNEC didn’t start out in the video game hardware business, Nippon Electric Limited partnership had been established in 1898 by Kunihiko Iwadare and Takesho Maeda to produce and sell telephone equipment as a joint venture with the American company Western Electric through its representative in Japan Walter Tenney Carleton, it…Pc Engine10 min readPc Engine10 min read
Apr 7, 2020Sega Mega DriveThe Sega Mega Drive was the machine that finally broke Sega into the lucrative American market, arguably it remains one of the most important consoles in history, toppling the mighty Nintendo from their dominant position and cementing Sega’s position as a player in the video-game console market. As the end…Sega20 min readSega20 min read
Jul 8, 2019Sega DreamcastThe Dreamcast was Sega’s last hurrah, it was a groundbreaking machine that ushered in the 6th generation of home console hardware and pushed through several innovations that have now become standard, it should have been the machine to drive the company to untold heights, instead its failure would cause Sega…Gaming19 min readGaming19 min read
Jun 23, 2019Sega Game GearFollowing the incredibly successful launch of the Nintendo Gameboy which sold 300,000 units in the first two weeks, other companies suddenly became more excited about the prospects of the handheld market, Atari who had purchased the ‘Handy Game’ off Epyx where it had been in development since 1986 launched it’s…Gaming5 min readGaming5 min read
May 26, 2019Sega Master SystemThe Sega Master System was a machine, for its time it was far more powerful than its nearest rival Nintendo, but failed to put a dent into either its home territory of Japan or the lucrative American market, it did however perform well in Europe and Brazil leading to a…Gaming8 min readGaming8 min read
