Broken Gamebooks #18: Clash of the Princes

A special release outside the main Fighting Fantasy range, Clash of the Princes (published 1986) was a two-book boxset (both written by Andrew Chapman and Martin Allen). Each book could function as a solo gamebook if you didn't have a friend to play with (let's rise above jokes about the likelihood of that, please), but if you did happen to have a friend to hand, then you could play the first - and, to date, only - two-player Fighting Fantasy adventure!

Commentary on Some Commentary

So, somebody on YouTube has ripped all three and a half hours of Jonathan Pearce's commentary from the PlayStation 2 version of Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction (functionally identical to the PC version) and uploaded it in one big video. There is a large amount of dialogue not heard in the final game amongst this, much of which points to game modes, robots and other material which was cut during development, so here's a list of everything that apparently didn't make it to the finished product:

In the Dark

Homer's Night Out, then. Not a particularly well-regarded episode from the first season of The Simpsons, perhaps, but it does feature one of the show's earliest guest stars - Sam McMurray as nightclub singer Gulliver Dark, pictured above.

But did you know that this role is actually a crossover with The Tracey Ullman Show? McMurray played the character in live action on the show where the Simpsons got their start, and at least one of those sketches survives online, specifically here.