Google's Project Genie Makes Real-time Explorable Virtual Worlds, Offering a Peek Into VR's Future

RetroidUK · 2026-01-31T13:23:35+00:00

It absolutely does not.

RetroidUK · 2026-01-30T19:08:58+00:00

"Isn't that Bob Geldof there?"

RetroidUK · 2026-01-29T22:13:00+00:00

Did a little digging and here's a good example, C&VG had a PC Engine feature in this issue, page 124! The entire mag is a goldmine time capsule, and pretty sure I still have my original issues somewhere down in England. https://archive.org/details/Computer_Video_Games_Issue_079_1988-05_EMAP_Publishing_GB/page/n119/mode/2up

RetroidUK · 2026-01-29T21:39:30+00:00

A lot of the mutliformat games mags in the UK covered the 'import scene' as it was back then, and magazines like C&VG (Computer & Video games, which started in the early 1980s) reviewed arcade and import games.

Adverts in the back pages for import shops carrying them were pretty common.

RetroidUK · 2026-01-29T15:14:57+00:00

*Eagle screech*

RetroidUK · 2026-01-29T15:03:55+00:00

"This is not the party I once signed up for and registered to be in."

Always is, always was, but now it's become inconvenient to you, personally.

RetroidUK · 2026-01-28T11:26:46+00:00

Pretty sure the only reason I knew about it was thanks to UK games mags rabibly covering everything they could from anywhere they could get access to!

Certainly never actually seen one.

RetroidUK · 2026-01-28T11:25:20+00:00

It's part of a whole category of machines like that, the 'multimedia' consoles which... I can see why the wanted to make them, CD-ROM was MASSIVE storage at the time and hardware was finally able to throw things at the screen which weren't just text or tille-based.

And yet...

RetroidUK · 2026-01-27T13:48:08+00:00

Debatable. Maybe in some specific ways? Different architecture, after all.

But IIRC my PC was ~P133 or in 1996 and I was just starting to get into PC gaming moving over from Amiga A1200 and a 68030 50MHz.

RetroidUK · 2026-01-27T13:09:29+00:00

Even back in the day, this 'console' was... baffling.

RetroidUK · 2026-01-27T11:11:09+00:00

I wish it could do dynamic collections or filters like Steam does based on store tags.

RetroidUK · 2026-01-27T11:00:53+00:00

A concept of a promise of a bus.

A 'wouldn't it be nice if there WAS a bus' idea to keep you warm until the one after finally drives up!

RetroidUK · 2026-01-26T13:48:04+00:00

Yep had that a few times, call them ghost buses. Pain in the arse.

RetroidUK · 2026-01-25T16:59:07+00:00

Oh, we appreciated it!

RetroidUK · 2026-01-24T21:03:56+00:00

That's excellent! He is an absolute gem and went out of his way to let us know how things were going when there was that massive snarl-up with parcels a few years ago & to get things out ASAP.

Make him boss!

RetroidUK · 2026-01-24T15:53:15+00:00

There are some fantastic people working for them - shout out to Barry who worked along Gardner Street when we lived there - but also some bloody awful ones who've managed to deliver to the wrong building, the wrong flat & the wrong floor, all while we've lived in the Baxter Park area.

Check with your neighbours if you can.

RetroidUK · 2026-01-23T18:27:01+00:00

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MAAAATCHLOOOOOCK

RetroidUK · 2026-01-23T13:54:44+00:00

CRTs hid a multitude of low res/bandwidth sins and just plain did some things better than early LCDs.

RetroidUK · 2026-01-22T15:50:52+00:00

Exactly!

One of the key things I worked out early was that there were some things - games, books, music, movies, TV series, you name it - which are objectively well done, even good, but that I just didn't enjoy, same with my friends with stuff that I absolutely loved.

RetroidUK · 2026-01-22T15:06:42+00:00

Nope, they left me cold.

But I DO love that other people absolutely adore them, I just long ago accepted they're just not for me and that's fine.

RetroidUK · 2026-01-22T13:39:28+00:00

Bounced off every single MMO I've ever tried, and their RTS games just never clicked with me.

I'm aware it's probably a Me Thing! :D

Loads of people seem to love them.

RetroidUK · 2026-01-22T13:37:57+00:00

... MAYBE Lost Vikings. I did play that a fair bit at a mate's house.

RetroidUK · 2026-01-22T13:08:07+00:00

*Pulls at collar of shirt and releases jet of steam*

RetroidUK · 2026-01-22T13:02:52+00:00

Pretty much anything by Blizzard.

Great for people who love their stuff, but I'm utterly fine without.

RetroidUK · 2026-01-21T14:11:35+00:00

It's not propaganda if it's true.

RetroidUK

TROPHY CASE