Games
[ Jan 15 2014 ]

Repairing Robotron

The long story about resurrecting my Robotron arcade board, and most of its peripheral parts.





[ Sep 30 2013 ]

Hacking car stereos

I re-wired the Honda CR-V steering wheel buttons so they’d control a Pioneer deck. Added two new buttons too!





Games
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[ Aug 4 2013 ]

Tales from the Arcade

I’m on holiday in Japan, where the retro game scene has imploded upon itself, and so my thoughts turn with a distinctly rose-tinted nostalgia to my own gaming history.  Things were, as you young whippersnappers must know by now, so much better when I was your age.





[ Jul 16 2013 ]

America: Schizophrenic Clusterfuck

If freedom of speech only applies when convenient, it’s not a freedom at all.





[ Jul 9 2013 ]

The machines are getting it wrong.

People make a big deal about machines learning about us to try and sell us stuff. But so far it seems that the machines are getting it wrong.





[ Jul 8 2013 ]

Something interesting is afoot.

A brief look at three events around the world that really clarify, in my mind, why privacy matters. It matters, because if the bastards decide they don’t like you, you’ve given them the ammunition already.





[ Jul 3 2013 ]

The Snowden Affair

Thinking about Snowden’s escape from America, through Hong Kong, who let him go on to Russia.





Uncategorized
[ Jun 20 2013 ]

Return of Grassy Platforms

Welcome to the third installment in the Grassy Platform series of pointless pixel pondering here at NFGworld.





Games
[ Jun 19 2013 ]

More Grassy Platforms

Long a standard element in platform games, platforms with grass on ’em!





Games
[ Jun 13 2013 ]

Grassy Platforms

Talking about grass, the kind you find in good old games.





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