Hotel Mario: Philips CD-i May Review

Hotel Mario: Philips CD-i

Hotel Mario: May featured game

Mario's first outing on the Philips CD-i comes in the shape of Hotel Mario. I've seen Hotel Mario slated on many occasions. As a Mario game I can understand the dislike but I prefer to look at Hotel Mario as an ode to the Golden Age arcade era. If you strip away the Mario-ness of it all and look at Hotel Mario for what it is then there's a game akin to the likes of…

Vectrex Overlay Config File Creation Tedium

KODI Windows 10

A less time consuming way of creating Vectrex Overlay config files for RetroArch

It turns out Vectrex overlay Config creation pisses me off. I've been setting up IAGL (Internet Archive Games Launcher) on my computer (see previous post) and decided I'd like it set up on my Windows installation also. I installed KODI, installed and configured the RetroArch basics then added IAGL into the mix all without much fuss. Painstakingly, I went through all of the emulators making sure everything…

Internet Archive Games Launcher (IAGL) Installation

Internet Archive Games Launcher (IAGL)

Something for the weekend in the shape of Internet Archive Games Launcher

I decided to install Internet Archive Games Launcher on my KODI box this weekend. It’s an old Intel Quad Core Q6600 with 8GB RAM and a 64GB Samsung SSD, but it does the job. It’s been running Ubuntu 18. 04 for a while with KODI 18. x (Leia). Originally, I was going to just drop KODI 19 (Matrix) on there but I chose to go the whole hog…

The Transformers Comic Book Memories

The Transformers Collected Comics 6

Transformers comic: More... Much more than meets the eye

During my childhood Saturday mornings were great. No school, sleep-in, wake up to some of the best cartoons of the time, but nothing gave me quite as much enjoyment as getting my latest Transformers comic arrive through the letterbox to read while I ate my cereal. More than just a range of toys, The Transformers comic told one epic story ranging from their origins on their homeworld Cybertron, to their arrival…

Super Mario Balancing Games with Link System

Super Mario Balancing Game

Let’s take a look at the three Super Mario Balancing Games

The Super Mario Balancing Games, three sets of games from Epoch Games, Ground Stage, Underground Stage and Castle Stage. Each game consists of a two-story stage with four iconic Super Mario character pieces, and a dice. That’s a total of three stages and twelve characters.