A drawing of Prince

A drawing of Prince

A drawing of the cover of Controversy

10 years without Prince.

hell yeah

‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg The iconic game that came to define 8-bit programming still conjures flutters of nostalgia 40 years on – all thanks to a 15-year-old tea boy who worked a Saturday shift in a computer shop in Greater M...

Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

The new logo for Infowars has been revealed.

The Onion has successfully landed a deal to take over Alex Jones' site after 17 months of legal issues.

Tim Heidecker will serve as the site's creative director.

Hardy Ricard has very Dugson Bobnut vibes

A 1946 advertisement for Marmite features a man in military uniform against a background of men toiling in a camp. The ad highlights the story of Australians raiding Japanese-held supplies of Marmite to aid prisoners of war, emphasizing its vitamin potency as a nourishing food for all, especially young children, the sick, and the elderly. It encourages consumers to ask their grocers for Marmite. Australian Pow's defy Japanese guards... ...to get life giving Marmite Here is one of the most dramatic stories of courage and comradeship to come out of World War 11-and one of the greatest tributes that could possibly be paid to the vitamin-potency of MARMITE Vegetable Extract! Proving conclusively the value of this famous product as a nourishing and appetite-stimulating food it also shows why MARMITE should be served in every home-particularly where there are young and growing children, sick persons or elderly folk. Providing in abundance those elements that are so vital to health, MARMITE is as delicious as it is good-and being so highly concentrated it is most economical in use. Ask your grocer to save you a pot of MARMITE today! Increased supplies coming soon. So desperate was the need of Australia's POW's for vitamin foods that the most appalling risks were run to secure supplies. In one recorded instance Japanese-held supplies of MARMITE, originally assembled by the British Government for jungle-fighting troops, were raided by daring young Australians to bring life-giving MARMITE to their sick and suffering mates!

From Australia, Apr 1946: Marmite ad (more at @OldInPrintAds.bsky.social)

«Australian Pow's defy Japanese guards... ...to get life giving Marmite»

Incredible you've got a police force over there who looked like fucking paramilitaries throwing people into cages on a whim and you've got some wank going "yeah, but they don't go up to white people and say "ZE PAPERZ PLEEEZE!" whilst clicking their heels, so we're freest country"

Inevitable that the pretended "free speech" movement are the ones who've actually ended up banning books and ideas. Texas is not free, regardless of "muh taxes and gunzzzz"

Rogue Trooper | Official Teaser Trailer YouTube video by 2000 AD

youtu.be/byd5PRryi_Y?...

Imagining young Russell Crowe listening to it on the radio, wiping the tears from his face and going "strewth, mate, I hear ya!"and "Yeah, nothing ever flamin' happens!" now

Yoda

"Continuing, the Star Wars are!"

'Allo 'Allo! Computer Fun! (PC DOS) - Games That Weren't Ok, first of all - we're not 100% certain if the PC DOS version was ever released of Alternative Software's adaptation of the BBC classic, 'Allo 'Allo. There is an account of someone buying the game d...

Well, this is amazing.

www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/04/allo...

Also, there's the assumption that when people earn more they will always adjust their spending upwards, with e.g. socialising or food spending being a percentage of their overall income whereas I think a lot of people just keep it at the same amount with only things like inflation pushing it up.

character in green has just walked down a set of stairs. another character in green is greeting them (good morning wanker! you woke up late this morning) at the bottom of the stairs, in a room with a cupboard, a book shelf and tables. greenery and trees surround the building.

shining force II, magazine screenshot, mega drive (1995) archive.org/details/mega...

Infiltrator – “Papers, please” I’ve talked about many British developers who made their start by making home computer games based on arcade games, often Atari ones. This story will be a rare instance of a North American develope…

In 1986, a Canadian called Chris Gray made a stealth game locked behind a helicopter sim. U.S. Gold successfully sold it to the UK as "the game that rocked America". Gray was still a teenager, but already the co-creator of Boulder Dash. New post on Infiltrator:

www.superchartisland.com/infiltrator

The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate (1988) | RPG | PC platforms | Interplay

The Bard's Tale III's musical intro slightly differed depending on the platform. Here, the Apple II version shows off a bit of what it could do with an animated balloon to go with the story. Watch out for that flying thing!

XF5700 Mantis Experimental Fighter (Paragon Software/Microplay Software, 1992) #DOSGaming

Sunday on Noisebox Radio
8pm: Barfe Night
Sunday Night is Barfe Night. Join Louis Barfe for an eclectic jazz-related finalé to the weekend, from 8pm until it comes to a natural conclusion...
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If you've never seen Danger : Diabolik, you owe it to yourself to put that right! This looks like a good place to start....

LXB Plays: Golfwinks YouTube video by League of Extraordinary Board Games

It's Sunday! Fancy a round of golf? No....good. because this is "Golfwinks"!
New episode on #YouTube now!!!
youtu.be/xXxNoPJjOSM?...
@ashens.bsky.social @oliverharper.bsky.social @cheapshow.bsky.social

If Tim Burton & Wes Anderson were neighbours

"THREE MEN IN A BOAT" (1975 Jerome K. Jerome TV Adaptation-starring Tim Curry, Michael Palin) YouTube video by Archive Media Vault

for tim curry's birthday, you should watch him in the excellent 1975 BBC version of Jerome K. Jerome's THREE MEN IN A BOAT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgwk...

a cartoon of a cat wearing headphones and holding a video game controller ALT: a cartoon of a cat wearing headphones and holding a video game controller

I'll be on @noiseboxradio.com at 6pm with Ready Player One, a show for all your video game music needs. I'll be hanging about to present The Sunday Something at 7pm, which may or may not have a theme. I dunno, I'll do what I want, you're not my real dad!

Anyway, please do tune in x

Before the Web: Diskmags on Amiga YouTube video by Ethereal Worlds

Loving Moon Child? Curious about the Euro Amiga scene it was born from?

I highly recommend checking out @etherealserah.bsky.social's vid on the vibes of the 90s Amiga (demo)scene.

Ah shite, what's happened?

Tim Curry as Premier Cherdenko - Space! YouTube video by Athrun Talan

Happy 80th to Tim Curry, a man who knows how to overact *just* the right amount.

youtu.be/U_U59u69tys?...

Just to point out that Valve has released a new version of Portal 2 for its 15th anniversary, focused on content creation and community content. That's very nice.

Some games disappear within two years; others receive the treatment these works deserve. 🤷‍♂️

Free entry before 10:30pm with the password ADOLF

This seems like something from Framley but I stumbled upon this advert from the late 80s last night and...well...

“Tough one. I think I’d have to say, The Best of The Social Medias.”