Sujet : Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN APRIL 2025?
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It's been another month where I've played basically nothing on the PC so I'll talk about other things.
The Spectrum - Retro
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I picked up one of these in the second production run and I've enjoyed it so far. It's a Raspberry Pi in an 'original' Spectrum case running an emulator. The additions are some more modern things such as controller support, HDMI, USB (gotta get those extra games on) and a save and rewind feature.
The downside is this really is for those of us, like me, for where the Spectrum plays a huge part in their happy childhood memories and having a physical Spectrum just takes it up another level that a PC emulator can't.
The plus side is that I both forgot just how hard the games were and also how much that feds into to that almost addiction of just one my try as you failed that pixel perfect jump on Manic Miner.
Now I need to get a FAT32 USB stick formatted so I can both update the firmware and get those games I loved. Chuckie Egg anyone?
The Gun Seller (book)
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This is another one of the books that I bought years ago but never got around to reading. Well I've almost finished it now and I've very much enjoyed it. As you might expect from Hugh Laurie it's a humorous novel and he does have a nice touch with words. I won't bore you with the details of the plot but it involves spies and helicopters with a bit of love interest thrown in.
As far as I know that's the only book he ever wrote which is a shame, then again I'd imagine that less than ten minutes of House made him more money than the book.
Call of Cthulhu (TT RPG)
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Well we finally finished our first campaign (roughly eighty hours spread over nine months) and we had a fitting end with one character making a defiant last stand against a Dark Young (that didn't end well - I'll shoot it, me - well if you want to) and the other going totally insane and now living out their live as a brain in a jar after being transferred into the 'care' of the big bad evil. As one of the players said it was probably best that they 'retired' as their characters would never get over being in a town full of killers that are children. It also didn't help that the same player when rolling an extreme success with their rifle decided that meant the can of petrol the fourteen year old girl was carrying caught light and she then burned slowly to death in a high pitched scream.
It did give me a gentle reminder of just how cheap RPG's are so the campaign cost less than £40 which gave three people a play time of eighty hours and that didn't include any fluff that PC games often pad their content out with.