A look at most things video game related from the perspective of a 56 year old Scottish bloke. Gameplays, pickups, interviews and general tom foolery are just some of what you'll likely find. Thanks for looking and hope you enjoy the channel.
First game is essentially Pong crossed with air hockey. I like it though.
@ColinJonesPonderКүн бұрын
Watching this in bit (like Richard) due to shifts at the moment. Great for fatigue but crap for getting stuff done. I tried Guinness in Dublin. Very little difference to my palette but I'm not a connoisseur. I ripped the music from Master of Magic out of the game so it would play standalone... then a few months later the disk it was on got damaged! My WiFi SSID is Telstar 😉 A family wedding is a good reason to not attend Play Blackpool. I'll give you that one, The faster version of Forbidden Forest is Song 3. My question for the next Waffle: what is your favourite off-the-shelf controller? Not custom built, just one you can but.
@thorstenguenther2 күн бұрын
Whenever an American believes non-native speakers would struggle with the "very different" US accents, we can point them to this video in the future :)
@Martroid2 күн бұрын
Sheesh, Al, these games still look and sound amazing today, eh? 🤘👽🤘
@lordevyl83173 күн бұрын
Geoff Follin (Tim Follin's brother) recently passed away. He did some SID music as well
@stevesgaming74754 күн бұрын
Sorry I missed it live, just watched it now and really enjoyed it. Thanks AL!
@steviepaperboy1544 күн бұрын
All the best Alan
@ColinJonesPonder6 күн бұрын
The MiSTer is the best thing for experiencing old systems yet to be developed and it gets daily use, but for me there's nothing that beats the real thing... for the stuff I used to own. I have no real desire to own anything now I didn't own back in the day, with a very few exceptions (eg. C128). Selling anything is a minefield. I still think you should come along to the Expo. Not for the talks, not for the games, not for the equipment, but for the company. The people I meet is why I'm going 🙂 I'm definitely not staying in the Norbroke, I've booked a hotel about 1km away called the Haskell 😉 My question for the next Waffle is a simple one: Do you prefer e-books, physical paper books or do you like both?
@paulcooke176 күн бұрын
Great waffle Al - and I think you were very diplomatic and kind about the usual suspects in terms of the ‘circlejerk’ retro KZreadrs ! Nefarious activities / grifting aside, their biggest crime for me is simply that their content is usually boring and soulless, and I’ve no idea why anyone would find them interesting in a panel talk. Anyways keep up the good work mate (for free ha ha) 😊😉👍
@ACanOfBakedBeans6 күн бұрын
I agree, plus why does it have to be KZreadrs anyway. I mean why not get a retro game dev or something like tht
@tNG-FLT9 күн бұрын
Fun to hear the sid emulation/fpga how it sounds, thou i seen the demo now more times than sainty would allow.
@stevesgaming74759 күн бұрын
Love these and this was another great one! Hope you never run out of people to do :)
@atifintel10 күн бұрын
HOW MANY YEARS I WAS FINDIN THIS OH MY GOD
@josephfrye734213 күн бұрын
Hello and it is interesting to talk to you in the series of yours Arcade perfect my arse well your arse of course well that aside this road runner game was not really good arcade nor great arcade game to begin with. But I understand road runner is faster than sonic and shadow etc etc but road runner is a mess when these controls like ass/arse (excuse me btw)
@paulcooke1714 күн бұрын
Great stuff as always Al - keep these coming 😊👌
@hanswurst381114 күн бұрын
seen better demos .... i dont like it ....
@opal42opal14 күн бұрын
Bravo. The Storytelling, the graphics, coloring, the sound and overall atmosphere. I don't know much about the internals of the '64 but I do know this is dam close to magic. 13:37 indeed. Mind Blowing indeed.
@locust7614 күн бұрын
hahaha when it said "The AI launched its missiles!" I thought to myself "ooooh, _that_ kind of AI" ... because I thought this demo was a response to the dumb fucking AI we have in the real world instead of actually intelligent Skynet-types 😂
@perge_music14 күн бұрын
Properly clever that. Even liked the tune.
@mamemeister14 күн бұрын
Thanks Chris, hope you're well Sir.
@GadgetUK16414 күн бұрын
Brilliant interview!!!!
@technodaz14 күн бұрын
In the hands of expert coders computers are amazing , and here's me playing a bloody crappy looking 3d farm game that for some reason takes up 5gb. I remember running demos like this back in the 90's in dos and always blew me away. But games back then were fairly optimized too , then cd roms came out and it got silly real quick and has never stopped.
@ACanOfBakedBeans12 күн бұрын
Way too many FPS games these days. I can remember when FPS games were actually good, now they are a dime a dozen. Last good one was Half-Life 2 IMHO
@Nickbaldeagle0215 күн бұрын
I've got Mike's mini Defender controller. Awesome stuff. Had it years.
@lactobacillusprime15 күн бұрын
This is quite an amazing mind blowing demo! Some demo-seption going on Mister two Sids each variant with 25% stereo separation? Give it a try!
@stunthumb15 күн бұрын
Damned ungrateful AI :D
@mamemeister15 күн бұрын
Sorry, not with you fella?
@justinhenryhaynes14 күн бұрын
He is making an “in universe” observation about the AI as a character in the demo. He is appreciating the demo.
@mamemeister14 күн бұрын
Ah ha. all these references to AI confuse me as my name is Al (Alan).
@saszab14 күн бұрын
@@mamemeisterYes, I always hated that the Latin small L and big i are practically indistinguishable. People are so stupid that in a thousand of years didn't find a solution for this.
@Spectrum4e416 күн бұрын
lol, all the clickbait videos start with "MIND BLOWING!".
@mamemeister16 күн бұрын
Haha, to be fair I rarely use click bait titles ("Face-Off Kerfuffle" anyone) but with these I seriously regard these as mind blowing.
@towerbridge0416 күн бұрын
Thanks for sharing that JustGiving page. It really puts life in perspective. If only we could always remember to embrace love and compassion towards others.
@ColinJonesPonder17 күн бұрын
As a shift worker there is no weekend. Currently Sunday 07.04 and I'm getting ready to go to work 😉 It's not all downside, a long weekend every 3 weeks, time off when everyone else is at work, etc. The Great Space Race was exactly the game I was thinking of when I asked that hype question 😂 Ooh I love me a bit of I, Robot! 😁 I used to download games and demos for my C64 in 1983 (it's how I got Xzap)... until the phone bill arrived and that was the end of that 😂 My question: Do you prepare for work the night before and/or get up early before you have to leave or are you a last minute person?
@simonbutler-bq8yb17 күн бұрын
Cracking stuff.
@MrHarbonaut18 күн бұрын
A pleasure as always, thanks for asking me.
@jimmywhyte718118 күн бұрын
I watched a shed load of Michelle Knight's BBC videos in 2016, they taught me everything I needed to know about buying one. Thanks Michelle.
@sashanan19 күн бұрын
It's not quite what you are expected to do, but in the final scene, hug the wall to the left of the Marshmallow Man and dash into the door as he hops to the right for a considerably easier window to hit than trying to pass between the legs.
@ACanOfBakedBeans19 күн бұрын
Will Wright created SimCity.
@ACanOfBakedBeans19 күн бұрын
There's also a version for the BBC Micro now.
@ACanOfBakedBeans19 күн бұрын
The NES version is terrible
@klaxoncow19 күн бұрын
GHOSTBUSTERS!! (I ain't 'fraid o' no ghost.)
@davidconnelly19 күн бұрын
That was a good game - very much in the same spirit (I think) as Miami Vice. So, you get to drive around in a cool car and at times it can appear to be kind of aimless. Just like with Miami Vice, I could never complete it nor even could I entirely understand what the purpose of the game was. I understand this game is considered to be of particular interest to people who are interested in programming and it used some very fancy tricks to "remember" account details. From ChatGPT: "Ghostbusters" on the C64 used innovative programming methodologies such as checksum-based passwords, efficient assembly language coding, clever memory management techniques, and custom save/load mechanisms to manage and remember bank details and other game state information. These techniques were a testament to the ingenuity required to develop complex games on early home computers." Thanks for this one!
@ColinJonesPonder20 күн бұрын
No link to game in the description... I have found it though.
@M0j0J0j022 күн бұрын
YARS for me at the end 👍
@ColinJonesPonder24 күн бұрын
The heart shocking procedure is quite straightforward, I know a few at work who have had it done. To be fair, we all know each others music, movie, TV, games tastes here 🙂 To say computers don't make mistakes is totally wrong. They do usually do exactly what you tell them to do, not what you want them to do and of course Garbage In Garbage Out but they're also prone to failure, and that's when they make mistakes. I did say quite a bit more but accidentally refreshed the page and lost the lot! 😂 My question for the next Waffle: We all speak about the things we miss from the 1980s but what fro the era are you glad to see the back of?
@LegendaryWizball25 күн бұрын
Shout out for the podcast. I really enjoy it. I also enjoyed your earlier one with George and your mates (few years ago).
@LegendaryWizball25 күн бұрын
Question for next week. How many C64 games do you think are actually still worth playing in 2024? For me it’s just a handful: Wizball, Bruce Lee and Boulder Dash are still just as good as they were back in the day. Others like Buggy Boy, Druid, Footballer of the Year, Wizard of Wor, Archon and Drelbs are worth a play once a year or so. Its not as newer games have better graphics or anything like that. On the Amiga I only ever play Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, The Chaos Engine, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Stunt Car Racer and Mega lo Mania. But on the Super Famicom, the MegaDrive, the PC Engine and the arcades I still play dozens of games.
@Martroid25 күн бұрын
I remember the first time Del was on one of your vids, Al, and thinking ... man, I hope Al has this guy on more, he's brilliant. Worked out well then 😁. Also, I just wanted to say that those videos with Jamie are really cool too. I like how you do a general chat and then morph it into an in-depth discussion + play-through of a game ... just really interesting. Works in nice with the podcast format too. Speaking of The Nice and Nasty, are you going to have Mark from 20th Century Gaming on? Take care, mate 🤘👽🤘
@weebobart25 күн бұрын
Great to listen along. I still haven't bought a Mister yet, probably will at some point. I would like to get the Meta Quest 3 first as I can then sit and watch movies on a VR big screen. Anyway Question for next week: What thing in life, not family, would you choose in life over gaming? Anyway I will probably be on the West Highland Way if you answer this and big wave from the mountains. All the best for the weekend and week ahead gents.
@colinthomson751825 күн бұрын
good Waffle, the end was so funny about elite hahaha
@colinthomson751826 күн бұрын
Droid is Brilliant nice to see an Enhanced version .
@delboy3k126 күн бұрын
Q. Do you remember when games had c64 editions on 1 side and the spectrum game on the other ? I just saw a YT video that reminded me that shadowfire by Denton designs gave you both versions on the same tape. Wow.....can you remember any others ? As always, a great waffle, my friend.
@Markytho27 күн бұрын
Would appreciate a link to her channel and I've been after a BBC Micro game that's completely eluded me since I last played it at secondary school in 1994. It was called Chicken George and the ditty at the beginning is forever burned in my mind. There was a row of chickens in cages at the top of the screen that laid eggs and I think you had to catch them then put them on a conveyor belt at the bottom of the screen. There was like a text adventure mode and it ran off a network using shift, control and break. Never found this game maybe lost in mists of time.
@stevesgaming747528 күн бұрын
I have to say I thought that was one of the best waffles ever! Really enjoyed it. Now let me toss you two utterly stupid questions: Question 1 - What C64 game is vastly underrated and Question 2 - What C64 game is vastly overrated?
@mamemeister28 күн бұрын
Ah man, that's a lovely thing to hear, glad I have settled on a new live format to make it less tedious than me twatting on non-stop.
@stevesgaming747528 күн бұрын
Great stuff! I love these and I quite enjoy guessing who's next (although I've only got it right once)
@lactobacillusprime28 күн бұрын
Michelle’s ZX81 “evolved” is crazy, would actually have to be named “the ZX81Next non FPGA real enhanced hardware tinker edition “ 😎 Yep, computers with ULA get around the blanking thing
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First game is essentially Pong crossed with air hockey. I like it though.
Watching this in bit (like Richard) due to shifts at the moment. Great for fatigue but crap for getting stuff done. I tried Guinness in Dublin. Very little difference to my palette but I'm not a connoisseur. I ripped the music from Master of Magic out of the game so it would play standalone... then a few months later the disk it was on got damaged! My WiFi SSID is Telstar 😉 A family wedding is a good reason to not attend Play Blackpool. I'll give you that one, The faster version of Forbidden Forest is Song 3. My question for the next Waffle: what is your favourite off-the-shelf controller? Not custom built, just one you can but.
Whenever an American believes non-native speakers would struggle with the "very different" US accents, we can point them to this video in the future :)
Sheesh, Al, these games still look and sound amazing today, eh? 🤘👽🤘
Geoff Follin (Tim Follin's brother) recently passed away. He did some SID music as well
Sorry I missed it live, just watched it now and really enjoyed it. Thanks AL!
All the best Alan
The MiSTer is the best thing for experiencing old systems yet to be developed and it gets daily use, but for me there's nothing that beats the real thing... for the stuff I used to own. I have no real desire to own anything now I didn't own back in the day, with a very few exceptions (eg. C128). Selling anything is a minefield. I still think you should come along to the Expo. Not for the talks, not for the games, not for the equipment, but for the company. The people I meet is why I'm going 🙂 I'm definitely not staying in the Norbroke, I've booked a hotel about 1km away called the Haskell 😉 My question for the next Waffle is a simple one: Do you prefer e-books, physical paper books or do you like both?
Great waffle Al - and I think you were very diplomatic and kind about the usual suspects in terms of the ‘circlejerk’ retro KZreadrs ! Nefarious activities / grifting aside, their biggest crime for me is simply that their content is usually boring and soulless, and I’ve no idea why anyone would find them interesting in a panel talk. Anyways keep up the good work mate (for free ha ha) 😊😉👍
I agree, plus why does it have to be KZreadrs anyway. I mean why not get a retro game dev or something like tht
Fun to hear the sid emulation/fpga how it sounds, thou i seen the demo now more times than sainty would allow.
Love these and this was another great one! Hope you never run out of people to do :)
HOW MANY YEARS I WAS FINDIN THIS OH MY GOD
Hello and it is interesting to talk to you in the series of yours Arcade perfect my arse well your arse of course well that aside this road runner game was not really good arcade nor great arcade game to begin with. But I understand road runner is faster than sonic and shadow etc etc but road runner is a mess when these controls like ass/arse (excuse me btw)
Great stuff as always Al - keep these coming 😊👌
seen better demos .... i dont like it ....
Bravo. The Storytelling, the graphics, coloring, the sound and overall atmosphere. I don't know much about the internals of the '64 but I do know this is dam close to magic. 13:37 indeed. Mind Blowing indeed.
hahaha when it said "The AI launched its missiles!" I thought to myself "ooooh, _that_ kind of AI" ... because I thought this demo was a response to the dumb fucking AI we have in the real world instead of actually intelligent Skynet-types 😂
Properly clever that. Even liked the tune.
Thanks Chris, hope you're well Sir.
Brilliant interview!!!!
In the hands of expert coders computers are amazing , and here's me playing a bloody crappy looking 3d farm game that for some reason takes up 5gb. I remember running demos like this back in the 90's in dos and always blew me away. But games back then were fairly optimized too , then cd roms came out and it got silly real quick and has never stopped.
Way too many FPS games these days. I can remember when FPS games were actually good, now they are a dime a dozen. Last good one was Half-Life 2 IMHO
I've got Mike's mini Defender controller. Awesome stuff. Had it years.
This is quite an amazing mind blowing demo! Some demo-seption going on Mister two Sids each variant with 25% stereo separation? Give it a try!
Damned ungrateful AI :D
Sorry, not with you fella?
He is making an “in universe” observation about the AI as a character in the demo. He is appreciating the demo.
Ah ha. all these references to AI confuse me as my name is Al (Alan).
@@mamemeisterYes, I always hated that the Latin small L and big i are practically indistinguishable. People are so stupid that in a thousand of years didn't find a solution for this.
lol, all the clickbait videos start with "MIND BLOWING!".
Haha, to be fair I rarely use click bait titles ("Face-Off Kerfuffle" anyone) but with these I seriously regard these as mind blowing.
Thanks for sharing that JustGiving page. It really puts life in perspective. If only we could always remember to embrace love and compassion towards others.
As a shift worker there is no weekend. Currently Sunday 07.04 and I'm getting ready to go to work 😉 It's not all downside, a long weekend every 3 weeks, time off when everyone else is at work, etc. The Great Space Race was exactly the game I was thinking of when I asked that hype question 😂 Ooh I love me a bit of I, Robot! 😁 I used to download games and demos for my C64 in 1983 (it's how I got Xzap)... until the phone bill arrived and that was the end of that 😂 My question: Do you prepare for work the night before and/or get up early before you have to leave or are you a last minute person?
Cracking stuff.
A pleasure as always, thanks for asking me.
I watched a shed load of Michelle Knight's BBC videos in 2016, they taught me everything I needed to know about buying one. Thanks Michelle.
It's not quite what you are expected to do, but in the final scene, hug the wall to the left of the Marshmallow Man and dash into the door as he hops to the right for a considerably easier window to hit than trying to pass between the legs.
Will Wright created SimCity.
There's also a version for the BBC Micro now.
The NES version is terrible
GHOSTBUSTERS!! (I ain't 'fraid o' no ghost.)
That was a good game - very much in the same spirit (I think) as Miami Vice. So, you get to drive around in a cool car and at times it can appear to be kind of aimless. Just like with Miami Vice, I could never complete it nor even could I entirely understand what the purpose of the game was. I understand this game is considered to be of particular interest to people who are interested in programming and it used some very fancy tricks to "remember" account details. From ChatGPT: "Ghostbusters" on the C64 used innovative programming methodologies such as checksum-based passwords, efficient assembly language coding, clever memory management techniques, and custom save/load mechanisms to manage and remember bank details and other game state information. These techniques were a testament to the ingenuity required to develop complex games on early home computers." Thanks for this one!
No link to game in the description... I have found it though.
YARS for me at the end 👍
The heart shocking procedure is quite straightforward, I know a few at work who have had it done. To be fair, we all know each others music, movie, TV, games tastes here 🙂 To say computers don't make mistakes is totally wrong. They do usually do exactly what you tell them to do, not what you want them to do and of course Garbage In Garbage Out but they're also prone to failure, and that's when they make mistakes. I did say quite a bit more but accidentally refreshed the page and lost the lot! 😂 My question for the next Waffle: We all speak about the things we miss from the 1980s but what fro the era are you glad to see the back of?
Shout out for the podcast. I really enjoy it. I also enjoyed your earlier one with George and your mates (few years ago).
Question for next week. How many C64 games do you think are actually still worth playing in 2024? For me it’s just a handful: Wizball, Bruce Lee and Boulder Dash are still just as good as they were back in the day. Others like Buggy Boy, Druid, Footballer of the Year, Wizard of Wor, Archon and Drelbs are worth a play once a year or so. Its not as newer games have better graphics or anything like that. On the Amiga I only ever play Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, The Chaos Engine, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Stunt Car Racer and Mega lo Mania. But on the Super Famicom, the MegaDrive, the PC Engine and the arcades I still play dozens of games.
I remember the first time Del was on one of your vids, Al, and thinking ... man, I hope Al has this guy on more, he's brilliant. Worked out well then 😁. Also, I just wanted to say that those videos with Jamie are really cool too. I like how you do a general chat and then morph it into an in-depth discussion + play-through of a game ... just really interesting. Works in nice with the podcast format too. Speaking of The Nice and Nasty, are you going to have Mark from 20th Century Gaming on? Take care, mate 🤘👽🤘
Great to listen along. I still haven't bought a Mister yet, probably will at some point. I would like to get the Meta Quest 3 first as I can then sit and watch movies on a VR big screen. Anyway Question for next week: What thing in life, not family, would you choose in life over gaming? Anyway I will probably be on the West Highland Way if you answer this and big wave from the mountains. All the best for the weekend and week ahead gents.
good Waffle, the end was so funny about elite hahaha
Droid is Brilliant nice to see an Enhanced version .
Q. Do you remember when games had c64 editions on 1 side and the spectrum game on the other ? I just saw a YT video that reminded me that shadowfire by Denton designs gave you both versions on the same tape. Wow.....can you remember any others ? As always, a great waffle, my friend.
Would appreciate a link to her channel and I've been after a BBC Micro game that's completely eluded me since I last played it at secondary school in 1994. It was called Chicken George and the ditty at the beginning is forever burned in my mind. There was a row of chickens in cages at the top of the screen that laid eggs and I think you had to catch them then put them on a conveyor belt at the bottom of the screen. There was like a text adventure mode and it ran off a network using shift, control and break. Never found this game maybe lost in mists of time.
I have to say I thought that was one of the best waffles ever! Really enjoyed it. Now let me toss you two utterly stupid questions: Question 1 - What C64 game is vastly underrated and Question 2 - What C64 game is vastly overrated?
Ah man, that's a lovely thing to hear, glad I have settled on a new live format to make it less tedious than me twatting on non-stop.
Great stuff! I love these and I quite enjoy guessing who's next (although I've only got it right once)
Michelle’s ZX81 “evolved” is crazy, would actually have to be named “the ZX81Next non FPGA real enhanced hardware tinker edition “ 😎 Yep, computers with ULA get around the blanking thing