Welcome to Arcade Nirvana – my musings on life, the universe and videogames
The Future Sound of Spotify
I have recently bowed to the inevitable and taken on a paid Spotify subscription – both the kids are on it, so a family sub works out cheaper and lets me skip the adverts on the three times a month I use it. Which got me thinking about music, and what we pay for it,…
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RIP: Sir Clive Sinclair
Okay, this is going to be a misty-eyed throwback to When I First Got A Computer. Forgive me the indulgence. I had wanted a home computer from the moment that having a computer at home became a viable aspiration. School had these clunky black boxes from Research Machines where I’d taken the first tentative steps…
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Running on empty
There’s a lot of chatter at the moment about learning to “live with Covid” and I don’t really know how to process this concept. See, a year ago I had a sore throat, which eventually developed into a mild annoying cough and then went away. I took a Covid test when the cough developed, but…
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Fathers. Days.
It’s Father’s Day today and none of my children have sent me a card or brought me breakfast in bed or anything. I couldn’t be happier. It’s not just that it’s a bullshit excuse for a day – a prototype “but when is it international MEN’s day eh?”, although that’s part of it I suppose.…
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Back in the saddle
It is unlikely that any of us will ever forget 2020/21 – two years which have seen the worst nightmares of science fiction plague stories largely come true. Some have weathered the storm better than others, some will not have weathered the storm at all, but all of us have been changed by it. As…
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Why I Love… Space Invaders
I only really have one story, I suspect that most of us do really. Everything that I have every done, every decision made, every friendship made (and lost) and everything that has lead me to where I am now can be seen as merely an echo of, or a reaction against, that story. It’s why…
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Bummer Man
London may not be to everyone’s taste, but I for one love living in a city where all-night bagel bars snuggle up to bring-your-own-alcohol curry places and bring-your-own-food beer places all against the backdrop of the City. I love the history of London, I love the streets of London and I love the sheer bloody-minded…
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Why I Love… GunPey
Let’s get straight to the point here – Gunpey is the best game you have never played, on the best system you’ve never heard of. No arguments, no returns. The system first – it should be crap. Produced on the cheap by Bandai exclusively for the Japanese market and focused on delivering the definitive Digimon…
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Ooh. Political.
You don’t pay attention to politics when you’re a kid do you. It’s all skateboards and videogames and nicking sweets from Woolworths and Billy’s Boots and going down the park isn’t it? Not for this kid, not in these times. It’s 1979, and I’m asking my mother why she isn’t voting for Maggie Thatcher? They’re…
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Arcade Parinirvana?
As those of you with long memories, or access to an internet archive, may know I have been collecting video arcade games for pretty much twenty years. It’s been a game of many highs, and a few lows. A hobby that has survived three children, four homes and a divorce. Through it all, I have somehow…
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Chris Ahchay 