Pixel 6 phone, and I pretty much just picked it up and pointed it :)

In the North East of England, the North York Moors.

North Yorkshire, in the UK.

I believe Super Ghouls n Ghosts is seen as a sequel to Ghouls n Ghosts.

Hah! I’d never seen that before! I don’t think it looks too bad :)

I’ve certainly seen worse Amiga ports!

They 100% count!

Dwarf Fortress is one of those games that I love to read about, but I don't think I would actually enjoy playing. Like Eve Online.

Nope, it's Zelda 3 on the SNES.

My heart says it should be Dark Souls, but my head reminds me I absolutely hated it until I'd figured out that the run from Undead Burg bonfire to Taurus Demon couldn't be rushed, and the point of the game was to be slow and methodical. Then I loved it.

I love and hate the feeling in Animal Crossing that the world has just continued existing without you for the last 18 months that you haven't booted it up. Feels like visiting old friends… but old friends that thought you were dead or something.

Yeah, it really was amazing to play blind. We especially enjoyed the DLC… when we first realised what it was all about, it nearly blew our minds!

It does seem to have been overshadowed by Shadow of the Colossus somewhat.

I picked it up blind after getting carried away in the magazine hype and excitement. I'd not played any FF games before that… man, that was quite an experience!

Considered Dark Souls… but, honestly, the first time I played it, I hated it. And every successive playthrough, I've loved it more and more. Playing it for the first time would feel like a step back.

It's 20 years old… if Windwaker isn't considered retro now, then Atari 2600 games weren't considered retro in 1997 :)

Difficult…

• Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
• Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
• Prequelle - Ghost
• Oh, Inverted World - The Shins
• Ten - Pearl Jam
• Tubular Bells II - Mike Oldfield
• Vast - Vast
• English Settlement - XTC
• The Friends of Mr Cairo - Jon and Vangelis
• Appetite For Destruction - Guns n Roses

I had a similar need, and it prevented me from moving to FireFox for a long while. Luckily, I did manage to get fx_cast to work, and it’s been flawless ever since. In fact, I’d say it work more reliably than Chrome’s casting!

Except in the case of the Sega Master System, where the simplistic 8-bit graphics felt like a massive leap up from the terrible box art!

Often it was because the ports were given to different companies to do… one would get the Spectrum/Amstrad and another would get the C64. Also, the whole sound and graphics systems would need to be rewritten, given the Spectrum’s lack of hardware sprites or scrolling, or decent sound. Presumably it just made sense to build them separately.

Can’t believe I missed that one! Sounds like it made some interesting compromises.