Sunday, 26 May 2019

Broken Gamebooks #14: Tower of Destruction

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Brace yourself, because this may be one of the most buggy gamebooks ever - certainly of those released under the Fighting Fantasy banner,...
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Sunday, 19 May 2019

Asterix in Britain's Broadcasting Corporation

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Well, the history of Asterix cartoons on the BBC is perhaps not as interesting or mysterious as Tintin , which we covered last week, but ...
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Sunday, 12 May 2019

The Black and White Island

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By any measure, the first Tintin story to make its way to the United Kingdom was the eighth, King Ottokar's Sceptre . It was serialis...
Sunday, 5 May 2019

Simpson Mania

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This is another interesting curio for any collector, released in October 1990 by Consumer Guide at the beginning of the second season of ...
Sunday, 28 April 2019

Fantasy Robot Wars

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After a fair bit of time on the Internet Archive, I've finally found it (or most of it, at any rate): Fantasy Robot Wars, the unoffic...
Sunday, 21 April 2019

Dicing with Dragons

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When Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone were first commissioned by Puffin Books in the early 1980s, it was with the intent that they would...
Wednesday, 17 April 2019

Alex Rider: "Secret Weapon" Review

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Some eighteen and a half years since he first burst into the world of young adult novels, and eight years and three books after author An...
Sunday, 14 April 2019

The Demon Headphones

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Q: Who was the first actor to play the Demon Headmaster for the BBC? You may not be particularly surprised to learn that the A to that ...