Phil Bennett

Goblin

Fun painting dead-eyed Sooty and friends in Sooty Paint (DOS/Amiga 1995)

A fascinating video on the workings of a rostrum camera, used for animation and special effects before the computer age: youtu.be/H6PGQC52CLA

Japanese raccoon dog

34°C here in California today. What is this, London?!

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Well done Google.

Thunderstrike (1990) has a cool PC speaker rendition of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

Sun Bear

SPAM?

Fun with dog sitting

"Shit, the marketing meeting's in five minutes and we still don't have any game ideas. Quick, think of something!"

Excited little guy

Ooh, I’m starting on *the* book

Forgotten game Moon Child becomes a small-scale internet sensation. A few weeks later, Moonchild the band have their equipment stolen while on tour. Coincidence? Yes.

Happy Friday from Bear

“Poultry In Motion”

Galaxian 3 Emulation Teaser www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH3u...

A LaserDisc rip of Taito's 1984 arcade game Cosmos Circuit. The MSX version has been archived for years but to my knowledge this is the first known footage of the arcade original. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAd5... (A Domesday Duplicator rip will follow)

A former Namco engineer talks about System 22 (Ridge Racer, Rave Racer): www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzTw...

Visit HEY. Ignore all the other shooters. Play Halley’s Comet.

Outrun DX: sadly not for tall folk

The Birthday Bear

An 8MHz 68000. So powerful, it has to be glued down for your safety.

One of the lesser-known spin-offs

Hmm

How many legs do we think will remain when I remove this from its socket?

Excellent font choice, Halfords

Oops, VARTA’d

A selection of DOS games and software from my childhood on 5.25" disk

The Galaxian 3 at Fun World, NH is reportedly operational again, having had one of its LaserDisc players replaced. Go play it while it still works (I hear they're open over the long weekend.)

Happy Bonfire Night! Be safe. youtu.be/On9X-s2caOI

Just completed 1996's Toonstruck. I can't believe I slept on it this long! Beautifully made, with well-thought-out, challenging puzzles, loads of charm and of course, the wonderful Christopher Lloyd. Pity about the abrupt ending (see also the game's horrific financial failure and cancelled sequel).

As promised, here's the write-up of the Galaxian 3 repair effort: philwip.com/galaxian-3-p...

The Galaxian 3 at Fun World is unfortunately experiencing technical issues not unusual of a 30+ year old machine. To avoid disappointment, I recommend holding off on any road trips to play the machine for now until the problem is resolved.

"What is this place?" "Keep your eyes peeeeeeeeeeled!"

The Galaxian 3: Attack of the Zolgear at Fun World, Nashua, NH is up and running again with all six players! This is the only known working installation in the US. I’m very proud to have been part of the repair effort. Look out for the full story on philwip.com soon

I scanned a bumper crop of arcade game schematics: Battle Lane Vol. 5 Beast Busters Castle of Dragon Dead Angle Final Lap 2+3 video board Halley's Comet Mechanized Attack Rambo III R-Type II Steel Gunner 1+2 video board Suzuka 8 Hours 1+2 video board Tiger Heli drive.google.com/drive/folder...

When your cat understands FM synthesis better than you do

Finally learning how to play the piano at the tender age of 41 and three lessons in, it's going very well! It's never too late to start...