Where Were They Now?

Power Computing look like a pretty obscure company.

I have two reasons for covering Hasbro Interactive.

I don't normally struggle to pick three covers for the picture to the left.

RETRO GAMER is well into year 26 of an incredible run.

Speaking in the House of Commons in 2010, Chris Williamson, MP for Derby North, described the city as "the birthplace of Lara Croft".

The story of the Gizmondo handheld console and it's parent company Tiger Telematics Inc is massively entertaining.

A couple of things combined to give me the idea for this post.

The way in which companies go bust is often telling, There are, of course, very strict legal rules covering the matter, but they are often easy to get around.

Having looked at Atari, and Sony, and SEGA, and 3DO, there's only one possible choice to do next.

Not to sound dismissive but I've gone backwards and forwards several times on whether to cover Mikro-Gen.

Excelsior!

December 1991.

Here come some absolutely gross assumptions guaranteed to make experts wince.

I assumed SEGA was going to be easy.

Riverside, BBC2's weekly magazine programme for young people covered music, arts, fashion, and style.

I got an email from Jake Smith in December 2024.

What struck me while watching the BBC documentary The Battle for Santa's Software was the absence of Dave Lawson.

Regular readers of this blog might have worked out the area of my cone of ignorance.

This was supposed to be Pysgnosis but that will have to wait for another two weeks.

119 John Bright Street, Birmingham I really blundered in to this one.

Happy Christmas and a merry New Year.

The success of The Hobbit must have left book publishers wondering if they were also sitting on a fortune.

The Smithy, Unit 1, Church Farm, Hatley St.

23 Sussex Road, Gorleston, Great Yarmouth Since the 48K Spectrum was launched the opportunities it offered has attracted peripheral manufacturers throughout the world.

≠Unit 3 Addison Industrial Estate, Blaydon, Tyne & Wear, NE21 Tynesoft is my story of failure, hope, failure, more hope, more failure, a bit more hope, and a disappointing final near miss.

31 Carlton Crescent, Southampton, SO1 No, I haven't gone nuts and you are not seeing double.

Ever heard of LOAD RUNNER?