Raiders of the Lost Arcade

Dr Bob's blog about modern videogames , retrogaming and Irish gaming in general.

Wednesday, August 13, 2003

spoilin' the movies and mowin' the lawn

Is this the most evil site of all time?
(ok probably not,but it is damn evil)
This link turned up on the boards last week
MovieSpoilers

Before I'd realised what I'd done I managed to ruin "momento" and "the ring" for myself ,Which in fairness I should have watched by now anyway...although on the otherhand I also saved myself the bother of watching the blair witch project. Ok so no one forced me to click on the links , but once they were in front of me I couldnt stop myself...evil, evil damn site


"Old shite but still good" game of the day: hover bover , on the c64.
Written by confirmed llama lover Jeff minter ,back when it was possible to code a game with just one or two people in a shed,as opposed to requiring a James Cameron budget and a team of NASA scientists the way multimedia projects do today.
Basically it involves you having to ..er mow your lawn,as its a bit long .No need to concern yourself with saving the world or rescuing the princess, just keeping your greens well tended is your goal here
Unfortunately you've "borrowed" your mates mower to do the job , and he's none too happy ,so while you race around the garden cutting away(oh and avoid the prize tulips please) ,he's chasing you past the petunias trying to get his lawn equipment back , with helpful comments like "give me back my mower you lunatic" and "seize boy, kill" as he tries to set his dog on you ...all to the tune of "an english country garden"...charmingly barmy, and suprisingly for a jeff minter game not a llama or camel in sight..(well ok, he sneaks a yak in on a loading screen)

If you use the c64 emu ( for pc or for ppc )I mentioned before , then you can download the file from this nice gentlemans site
here .Theres also apparantly a pc sequel called Grand theft flymo available on minters site: (which my firewall software here is blocking as a sex site for some reason?, maybe he's got some dodgy dromedary pics there, god knows??) anyway here's the link

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