Just finished reading GamesMaster: The Oral History from by and Jack Templeton. Absolutely loved it, so honest, warts and all. Everyone good and bad contributed. Enjoyed watching episodes on YouTube throughout as well. Big fan of Jane Hewland’s work!
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“The SNES sold well initially, but in the US the Genesis had really found a foothold … When we came out with Street Fighter Ⅱ, that evaporated. It was, ‘If you want Street Fighter, you have to have Super Nintendo.’”
Like a Hurricane, shipping now: readonlymemory.vg/shop/book/like
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Highly recommend this excellent Bitmap Bros book from . A beautiful piece of gaming nostalgia & fantastic insight into early British dev culture
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Watching the new (and always excellent) and deeply distracted by the proportions of the player sprite from Robocop vs Terminator on the Game Boy…
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GamesMaster Golden Joysticks Go On Sale, Sell Out Immediately (Image: ) timeextension.com/news/2023/02/g #GamesMaster #Charity
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Our 15 SpecialEffect x GamesMaster joystick replicas all went last night (along with our website, which completely melted down). Our GamesMaster mini episode featuring Dominik and Adam Buxton (!) is available now on YouTube:
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All 15 GamesMaster × joysticks are gone! Our apologies for the complete site meltdown... we had no idea this would crash our site. However, congratulations to the lucky owners of the edition that will help this amazing charity.
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The CMS just finally loaded...People are getting through... there are 5 left.
I have the same amount of hair remaining.
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It's alive! We've diverted some things and switched off some other things. I also just ate a whole thing of dark chocolate really quickly because of the stress.
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A few people have asked how much the GamesMaster × SpecialEffect Joysticks are. They are £250 each, all profits going to . We're working on bringing the site up now... please bear with us.
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To everyone trying to get on the GamesMaster × SpecialEffect Joystick page, people *are* getting on the site, but the traffic mean most people are being given 504 errors. We have never seen this level of simultaneous traffic so our server is freaking out. Please keep trying!
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We are tinkering away!
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Okay well this is a first... so many people clicked that the site has gone down. Please keep trying!
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And I think the site has crashed 
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Join and our special guest GamesMaster Adam Buxton later today for the launch of an extremely limited GamesMaster item, all in aid of the amazing charity . Kickstarter backers of the GamesMaster book will be given access at 6:30PM UK time today.
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A great idea and execution from editor Jack Templeton for a superb cause AND we made a wee GamesMaster-ish episode for the fans with a TERRIFIC turn from Adam Buxton slipping on Sir Patrick’s shoes.
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Join @DominikDiamond and our special guest GamesMaster Adam Buxton later today for the launch of an extremely limited GamesMaster item, all in aid of the amazing charity @SpecialEffect. Kickstarter backers of the GamesMaster book will be given access at 6:30PM UK time today.
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6:30PM, all you Oral History KS Backers better be checking out that page, because this item is gonna go *fast*.
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Join @DominikDiamond and our special guest GamesMaster Adam Buxton later today for the launch of an extremely limited GamesMaster item, all in aid of the amazing charity @SpecialEffect. Kickstarter backers of the GamesMaster book will be given access at 6:30PM UK time today.
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Join and our special guest GamesMaster Adam Buxton later today for the launch of an extremely limited GamesMaster item, all in aid of the amazing charity . Kickstarter backers of the GamesMaster book will be given access at 6:30PM UK time today.
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Kickstarter backers of GamesMaster: The Oral History, we said we had one final surprise in store for you... watch out for an update tomorrow at 6:30PM UK time. 1990s videogame dreams will come true, all in aid of our friends at
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Kickstarter backers of GamesMaster: The Oral History, we said we had one final surprise in store for you... watch out for an update tomorrow at 6:30PM UK time. 1990s videogame dreams will come true, all in aid of our friends at
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Finally picked up this pair of volumes thanks to a sale from that was too good to pass up! Looking forward to digging into these.
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Our books are now available in Forbidden Planet! If you're stopping by, don't forget to add a ROM book to your basket...
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ROM author speaks about game urbanism, architecture and our new book Videogame Atlas on 's Start the Week. Listen now here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00
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ROM author speaks about game urbanism, architecture and our new book Videogame Atlas on 's Start the Week. Listen now here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00
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Are other videogames fans congregating elsewhere? Mastodon? Hive? I think I’m done if I can’t use a desktop app…
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Seems like Tweeten is still functional since it's just a TweetDeck wrapper but not sure how long that will be the case.
Sad week for all the amazing third-party Twitter apps and the developers behind them :( twitter.com/verge/status/1…
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Seems like Tweeten is still functional since it's just a TweetDeck wrapper but not sure how long that will be the case.
Sad week for all the amazing third-party Twitter apps and the developers behind them :(
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Easing into Friday with 's Cannon Fodder episode, including a live performance of the games's theme song, War: Never Been So Much Fun, no less:
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Taste these epic tracks over at our Soundcloud. Be careful though, they really are very epic indeed:
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Some fresh white 7" vinyls, featuring specially composed tracks from Yoko Shimomura and Harumi Fujita are shipping out to Like a Hurricane backers at long last!
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For those who missed the ROM limited edition of Videogame Atlas: Mapping Interactive Worlds, the bookshop edition is now widely available from , featuring an all-neon ink cover design: amazon.co.uk/Videogame-Atla
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Design is underway on LAN Party, our photographic celebration of early multiplayer gaming get-togethers. A beautifully produced photobook with a disproportionate amount of photos of people with soda boxes on their heads. Pre-order yours now over at Volume: vol.co/product/lan-pa
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Design is underway on LAN Party, our photographic celebration of early multiplayer gaming get-togethers. A beautifully produced photobook with a disproportionate amount of photos of people with soda boxes on their heads. Pre-order yours now over at Volume: vol.co/product/lan-pa
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For those who missed the ROM limited edition of Videogame Atlas: Mapping Interactive Worlds, the bookshop edition is now widely available from , featuring an all-neon ink cover design: amazon.co.uk/Videogame-Atla
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Next Monday, Videogame Atlas co-author will be on 's Start The Week talking about her adventures in videogame urbanism. You can tune in on Monday at 9AM here to hear more: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00
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The embossing tool for the Like a Hurricane vinyl soundtrack is a thing of beauty...
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UrbExers! Fans of Ikumi Nakamura! Videogame book fans everywhere! Project UrbEx will close for funding tomorrow – pledge for your copy before the deadline and see your name included in the book: vol.co/product/projec
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