Fat Abbot's Posts

What to do with an old arcade machine board?

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The answer? The same as what Ashley Madison users do with not-their-wives. Mount it! This board has been gathering dust for years – and finally it has been moved to a place of honour on the wall. ST-V was supposedly named after a moon of Saturn: the Sega Titan Video game system. The Sega ST-V… Read More »

5 games for the LAN Of Our Lives

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How do you truly celebrate a significant birthday of a UCHG member? By creating a LAN party of some of the best multiplayer games of all time, that’s how. And how to best run a LAN party in the summer? The answer is simple: you run it outside. There’s a backstory to this. Between 2000-2007,… Read More »

Filmed myself Beat-ing it

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Back to the 1001! And after about 2 years since actually buying this incredible (well, just incredibly weird) DS game, I’ve given it a go. 1001 No.94: Elite Beat Agents (2006) Basically, people who are in trouble for whatever bizarre reason (including Leonardo da Vinci trying to please the woman from the Mona Lisa, go… Read More »

Prepare to waste some time

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Productivity across the planet is about to hit an all-time low. The Internet Archive is a digital library, one that seeks to preserve culturally significant content – but also allow free public access to all. It reportedly hosts 10 petabytes of data – a number that even Chuck Norris would struggle to count to in… Read More »