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A Klingon Challenge – Star Trek: TNG VCR Board Game

The lid of the Star Trek: A Klingon Challenge box depicting the Enterprise 1701D flying through a star system with the face 'Kavok', the Klingon who takes the Enterprise, on the right hand side.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive VCR Board Game - A Klingon Challenge...

... or just "A Klingon Challenge" is one of those Atmosfear style video based games from the 1990s. A Klingon Challenge was released in 1993 and is for 3-6 players aged 8 years upwards. With the brilliant Star Trek Picard debuting this week it seemed a fitting time to drag "A Klingon Challenge" out for an airing. For those unfamiliar with Atmosfear then it's basically a board…
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Musical quirks and some more T-Shirts

Super Mario Tee: A t-shirt depicting a black and white picture of Mario holding his hands in the air. Above is the text 'Legend' in white caps.

In musical terms, it's been a strange few months

There's usually a variety of musical offerings on my iPhone. Legendary artists such as Pink Floyd, Queen and Bob Marley are usually constants. Lately, the usual playlists haven't been doing it for me and instead I've been craving something different. I've been wanting to listen to some of those mismatched rave compilation CDs* from my youth. *I usually had the cassette tape versions back then so I could listen to them…
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Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me

Sonic the Hedgehog T-shirt. A t-shirt showing sonic the Hedgehog about to run and above that the Sonic the Hedgehog text logo from the 1990s.

Happy birthday Dear Munky. I'm now 43.

I don't really celebrate my birthday. Not because I'm shy, or anything like that, I just don't really do the celebration thing now I'm older. I'm not in for surrounding myself with a bunch of people, cheering me on, while I get another year closer to death. I'll still have a happy birthday, but it'll be quietly happy rather than the booze-fueled, party-on birthdays of my youth.
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Philips CDi and a little confusion from the internet

Philips CD-i

I got my hands on a Philips CDi

While browsing a local charity shop a couple of weeks back, amongst the Hi-Fi equipment, something caught my eye. A Philips CDi 210/45. A price label was just about visible as I leaned over some TVs to the shelving the CDi was sitting on. I pulled the unit closer and the price label had "£20 -no remote" written on it. I bought it anyway figuring I can get a remote…
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