Gaming right now is the best it's ever been in terms of ease of use and enjoyment - you simply pop in a disc or download a file, then for the most part you're instantly transported to an exciting single player adventure, or an epic multiplayer battle with folks from around the world. But perhaps that forgots how things were in the 'old days' of gaming... and these are the real old school days here. Maybe you never had to fiddle with your PC for eight and a half hours just to get Day of the Tentacle to run, or mess with IRQ settings to also enjoy something like sound as you play? And don't even mention applying network protocols like XModem, Kermit and their Muppet cohorts just to get two PCs to talk to each other. It's good that these technical nightmares have - for the most part - disappeared, but let's not forget how different things used to be. A time when simple ASCII letters represented player characters and a twenty minute wait, every time, before you could play just one game was the norm. Thus you are invited to stroll down the C90 tape-loading yellow bit road of gaming of our forefathers. On this nostalgic journey you will be passing through the likes of ZX Spectrum Street and tasting the smooth buttery C64 Uridium bas-relief goodness that was gaming of old, hopefully reminding many of the things we used to enjoy doing across all of gaming.
A Welsh semi-retired television producer and actor known for low end work that astonishingly people actually watched and even garnered some awards. Originally residing in the electrically-challenged Amish areas of Pennsylvania he has written a few books (Hollywood Pants and Hollywood Horrible Hints and Terribly Fake Tips vols 1 & 2) which you can buy on amazon and all great book stores.
After a brief stint in Australia he now finds himself back in the Welsh valleys of his home country noting that it hasn't changed a bit!
