From the depths of the 80s – a TV advert for the 48k Spectrum+.[…]

It’s back! Well, it never went away, but apparently iconic 80s drink Taboo is set for a makeover, building on the launch of “Taboo Blue” last year (not in the boozers I frequent). If you’re 18-24 and a lady you might want to l[…]

This very odd 3-issue miniseries by Gerard Jones and Mark Badger came out in 1995 – as a Batman story it falls a little flat, mostly because you can guess who the villain is very quickly. The plot – surrounding a Charlie Parker analogue w[…]

At first glance the I Was A Goblin series seems out of place on TMFD. Certainly when I was small, and played D&D, not many of my fellow enthusiasts were what you might call sportsmen. The gangly types were occasionally required to make ungainly […]

Some Dutch have created a machine to pour the perfect pint. All well and good, except it takes the robot 1 minute and 11 seconds to do it – a round of 4 would take almost 5 minutes mechanical service time! So dreams of commercial success may ha[…]

So basically, despite an enormous amount of media time and plod money being spent on looking for trouble, violent crime has fallen since flexible licensing hours came in. Good news all round – cheers![…]

The Mighty Thor is one of the luckiest characters in comics history. He had the good fortune to be first published at the dawn of the ‘Marvel era’, and has been firmly hitched to Marvel’s starry wagon ever since. Why “good for[…]

Changing Rooms
Tony, who split from his wife Georgina after he replaced their fridge with a “warp coil” said: “I was convinced Trekkies all over the world would want a house like mine and pay me to do it.
But I was wrong.”[…]

A tiny piece of gaming history made itself available to me yesterday – this PDF of White Dwarf #1. I’d never seen a copy before but its instantly evocative.
Of what? Not my gaming past exactly – WD had brightened up its act by the t[…]

In yr face St John!
(OK maybe not – alert readers will be able to spot the exact point at which this human coyote loses me, and I suspect many others…)[…]