Monthly archives: July, 2023

Pickups: 115 – Fathers Day Gifts

Here are my fathers Day gifts for this year. I’m a happy man. Alien Brigade – Atari 7800 (1990) Alien Brigade is a side scrolling shooter similar to Operation Wolf. Aliens have arrived on earth and have brainwashed both soldiers and civilians in order to take over the world. Your job is to stop them!…


Pickups: 114 – Spectrum Gifts

I was recently gifted 2 Micros from a friend. Both had no accessories or power cables with them. He wasn’t sure if they were working, so gave them to me. Luckily I had a power cable for the +3 and while I didn’t test it through a monitor/TV, it’s power indicator light lit up so…


Pickups: 113 – C64 Bundle

The Boggit: Bored Too (1986)- no manual After Bored of the Rings parodied JRR Tolkien’s classic Lord of the Rings series, Delta 4 did the same thing with its predecessor The Hobbit, preceding New Line Cinema’s identical sequence by 20 years. There is a logical 3-part structure to the adventure, but there are also jokes…


Pickups: 112 – Gamecube Bundle*

Enter the Matrix – Nintendo Gamecube (2003) In the war to save Zion, what part will you play? Enter The Matrix casts the player as Niobe or Ghost, captain and first mate of the rebel ship Logos, respectively. Niobe is a master combatant, capable of beating up everyone in her way. She is an excellent…