timorous…

Average to see you, to see you, average…

Only joking. Or are we?

Anyway, llamas. Here they are. Well, here he is – Mr. Jeff ‘Yak’ Minter, with the second ‘installamament’ of his pretty damned gorgeous ‘History Of Llamasoft’. This week, he tackles the essential unknowingness of subjective reality insofar as it relates to our objective experience of ‘things’.

Not really. More ace stuff on Commodore PETs, videogame programming and the English Metropolis called Basingstoke.

And once you’re done with that, you can just damn well head over to two other serialised specials – a lovely Arcade Nirvana from Ahchay about re-discovering the pleasures of gaming in a most unlikely place, and the increasingly unmissable Brit-babblings of PaulEMoz in the latest With My Kid In America…

Another first-timer this issue, too. A fella called ‘Zoot’ (thank you, mum and dad) has knocked out a touching little Why I Love… ditty on the Amiga version of Bubble Bobble. Oh, and there’s a Koworld-special review of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, too. Just in case you thought we didn’t care, or something.

Read, absorb, weep if you must…

beasties…

Aaaaand here’s this week’s warm, sticky, bukkake-like splattering of original videogaming spirit…

What do they do for fun in Basingstoke? History Of Llamasoft – Part 2. YAK

How to stay sane in Kent. More Arcade Nirvana from AHCHAY

The USA demands… But it just doesn’t treat its games right, says PAULEMOZ

Brotherly game-love – still alive after all those years. Bubble Bobble. ZOOT

Where Final Fantasy Tactics Advance becomes fun, by KOWORLD

Coming very soon… Oh, yes.

It’s no use crying like that. There’s no more.

Praise be to Stone for the pic, Stu for the name-check, and the people at Bizarre Creations – specifically the ones who thought Geometry Wars would be a good idea. It’s still booting our bottoms.

And remember – be afear’d of looking too deeply into The Abyss, for it is just a fairly good James Cameron film and it’d be daft to over-analyse it, now.

Next Week: Probably even more Final Fantasy bashing.

The original rodent, March 24th 2004

top ten…

Taunts set to appear in Mario Golf 2, by RODENTIA

10. 'Oi! Paedo!'
9. 'Rolaaand!'
8. 'Cock!'
7. 'Spudheeeeeed!'
6. 'You can swing but you'll never have Rythmn.'
5. 'You dropped your...gay card! Huhuhuhuhuh!
4. 'Right in your hole, Princess!'
3. 'Taste my wood, fatboy!'
2. 'Stop looking at my shaft.'
1. 'Fuck off Mario you fat Italian cunt, I wish you were dead. Your hogging of the limelight has held me back all these years. Well, not anymore. Not now, I'm gonna be a videogame star, I'm gonna take on the world and win, it's gonna be my sunshine island. Umm. MISS!'

Got any to add to this top ten?

last week's issue:

Tits, Rasta, fags, bacon, Missile Command. Go, AEROFLOTT

How being one of the select C64 few can be a nervy business. CIPPY

Why I love Civilisation, by AHCHAY

Deus Ex: Invisible War – An RPG for RPG haters, says SICKBOY

Final Fantasy: Fight To The Finish. At last it really IS the end. PAULEMOZ

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