That Barbican game exhibition thing

New Commodore 64s were crap and not as good as Spectrums answers!

I quite fancy it but for 11 squid I think they're having a turkish.

I'm so on for it. But not this w/e cos of the NTK thing. soon though, eh? I think i heard that ptee was interested too.

I went two weekends ago when I was in t'London for t'visit our kid. (He says flaunting his provincialness). It was pretty well done on the whole, with tonnes to do. A lot of omissions, but it's so subjective a thing I guess most people would think that and they'd never please anybody - for instance, why no Gauntlet, not even in the themed 'Co-operative play' section? Spent a happy hour in the classic arcade section - Pac Man, Galaxians, Defender and Missile Command (mmm... tracker ball...) really pleased me. Shame that Phoenix was only represented through a MAME. Some bloke in a Kangol coat played Asteroids for an hour despite the 'Please respect the others and only play for five minutes' notices. grrrrrrrrr....... The consoles/classic machines were pretty fine, though the choice of games was a bit odd - why Ant Attack on the speccy and not Knightlore or Jet Set Willy? More later. I have to do some work.

If Sid Meier's Pirates isn't there, then it's a fruitless exhibition.

COS ANT ATTACK IS THE GREATEST GAME EVER MADE. well almost. it was ages before knight lore or even manic miner. agreed that manic miner v important, and knight lore was the more popular 3d adventure (and much slicker), but ANT ATTACK was (breathe in) revolutionary. i may be exaggerating -- but when it came out, it felt like the world had changed. ph34r me, cos i do.

If anybody hasn't already been and wanted to go in the company of royalty, Jeff Minter is planning and excursion to London, taking in the exhibition. I fear only Alan will be impressed by this though.

JEFF MINTER!!! I spent nearly all of last Sunday trying to remember his name.... He's not dead then?

Hey, I'm impressed. Not quite enough to go especially to stalk Mr Minter, though. Now, if Matthew Smith were going...

Fuck Smith and Minter, Kevin Toms and Dino Dini are where it's at...

Here's Kevin, just darking shit up on the C64:

http://www.kevintoms.com/images/kevmonitors.jpg

JEFF fucking MINTER!

gOOD INTERVIEW WITH mINTER ON b3TA A WHILE BACK- ANY OF YOU READ IT?