Comments on: bright light entertainment

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:27:14 +0000

> Your Sinclair An absolute gem of a magazine. I remember being in awe of the writers, they had my dream job. I'm also pretty sure I've still got a shoebox full of old YS magazines and cover tapes at home. I didn't much care for the Adventure section, which if I remember correctly was in boring black and white and written by some dodgy bloke with a beard. I'd completely forgotten about How To Be A Complete Bastard, it was such a classic game. And let's not forget that YS brought us the best game of all time - Advanced Lawnmower Simulator. Hilarious review here.

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:29:43 +0000

> James Brown This has been my favourite James Brown headline so far. Classic opening line too...

By: air

air — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:32:40 +0000

> HTBAC Bastard Wow I remember that, it was pretty puerile. Some examples of bastard-point scoring. Nice Tedstock youtube links there, made me laugh.

By: Death/For/Milne

Death/For/Milne — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:03:20 +0000

Ah, Your Sinclair. Amazing magazine, bringing me such free games as How To Be A Complete Bastard, Tir na Nog, a boneload of games involving trains, and a 2D beat ‘em up that involved kicking a dog in the face.

I kept reading it even when I got a Master System, just because it was dead funny. Sigh. eventually I moved onto top magazine Super Play, which wasn’t as funny, but was very amiable and led to my disgusting fondness for Japanese culture.

New series of Hyperdrive, you say? What a waste of a good cast. Kevin Eldon as a hyper-efficient and intense military man in space should be funny. But it’s not.

Maybe it’s just me. Maybe I’m all wrong.

Incidentally, there’s some real good Lee and Herring stuff on Youtube just now from a short show they did on monday. Funny and sad and righteous in their “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” rage.

I don’t know how to make links, whether it be on the internet, or in real life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih41uU17P_o

aaaand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S24UJx0v9Og

By: air

air — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:28:48 +0000

> THERE IS X IN THAT In the 80s and 90s there were a couple of computer magazines that were actually hilariously funny. I'm thinking Your Sinclair and Amiga Power here. The latter publication actually had a real influence on the drivel I put together now, including the correct placement of CAPS for COMIC EFFECT. The point of this digression is that they documented all of their in-jokes in the form THERE IS X AND Y IN IT in an online lexicon. Which only former Amiga Power readers are likely to find fantastic. BING.

By: air

air — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:20:19 +0000

> hyperdrive Wow I completely missed this [details, torrent]. New series coming in April apparently. > There is Pinter in that A great delivery phrase for appraising something. THERE IS X IN THAT. "Yes, Hot Fuzz. There is John Woo in that."

By: CJ

CJ — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:46:30 +0000

I still have a book from the school library, British Plays from the 1960s, or something like that. There is Pinter in that. Tis good, I used to read this sort of stuff when I was a sixteen year old intellectual brat (and yes, always read, never saw).

By: Death/For/Milne

Death/For/Milne — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:03:25 +0000

I am hell of worried about Hot fuzz. A buddy made the rather valid point that all films that are advertised on the sides of buses end up being rotten. Hot Fuzz is advertised on every bus ever. Urk.

I have faith in the people involved in the film. THEY MUST NOT LET ME DOWN. THEY HAVE NOT LET ME DOWN YET.

(I am going to pretend that Hyperdrive never existed)

Pinter, though, eh? Pinter is awesome. If I was a real adult I would go see some P-p-pinter at a snazzy bastard theatre instead of just reading his stuff in secondhand boox. Ye cannae fit a theatre in yr suit jacket pocket, though, can ye? CAN YE?

Can Ye West.

I am going to stop typing crap words now.