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Mart Retro

@RetroBrothers

Retro fan. 8bit. 16bit. ZX Spectrum. Commodore Amiga. Films, Music, TV and silliness. Upcoming ZX Spectrum book.

In and around Glasgow Katılım Haziran 2010
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Mart Retro@RetroBrothers·
@ZX48kSpectrum If someone like Keith Burkhill or Joffa Smith had done it, I reckon it would have been great 👍
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SAM Retro@ZX48kSpectrum·
“Should have taken a warning, it's just People mourning Running, hiding, lost You can't find, find a place to go, so it's Red skies at night (Red skies at night) Oh oh (oh oh) Wa-a-ar” 1942 (1986) #ZXSpectrum #TheFixx
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Mart Retro@RetroBrothers·
@dunktech It was a masterful conversion by Jof. He always seemed to capture the feel of the arcade originals.
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Mart Retro@RetroBrothers·
@gigadgets_ Yes, first on my friends ZX81. Then on my own ZX Spectrum. Also on a Beeb, C64, Electron and CPC464
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GiGadgets@gigadgets_·
Have you ever played a game that loaded from a cassette tape?
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Mart Retro@RetroBrothers·
@tobobobo Is that on the ZX81? Looks really good 👍
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Mart Retro@RetroBrothers·
@Met4CastUK What's that got to do with anything? I've seen flawed data countless times, it's completely pointless
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Met4Cast - UK Weather@Met4CastUK·
This is insane. Not to be hyperbolic but 30°C being reached this widely at this time of year is unprecedented and extreme. A new all time May record. Some stations have beaten their all time JUNE records. Climate change is not a future problem.
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Mart Retro@RetroBrothers·
@Met4CastUK By who? Recorded where? Anyone can spout word salad on here. In my years the following were 'certain': Land underwater. Then it was an ice-age by year 2000. Use plastic over paper to save the rainforest. All oil reserves will vanish by 2001. Etc.
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melthebell45@melthebell45·
Another snakebite, which I've almost drunk lol. And one of the greatest games ever made, still so scary, and one of the earliest survival horrors, never mind Resident Evil. 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81
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Mart Retro@RetroBrothers·
@Met4CastUK How do you rationalise that? It was lucky to be getting above 10 degrees. Cars frosted up in the morning.
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Mart Retro@RetroBrothers·
@AtariCrypt I also liked Bug Byte. They released some great stuff
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AtariCrypt@AtariCrypt·
@RetroBrothers That's the first computer game I bought! Styx by Bug Byte (I loved their games!!)
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Mart Retro@RetroBrothers·
@CinemaTweets1 1st act is top tier 2nd act is fair to middling 3rd act is poor
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Cinema Tweets@CinemaTweets1·
Revisiting War of the Worlds (🌟🌟🌟🌟) elevated my excitement for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming release Disclosure Day even further. Wow this movie is better than I remember & Spielberg’s attention to detail smuthers this story. Cruise as a parent is also interesting. Review here:
Cinema Tweets@CinemaTweets1

Steven Spielberg’s next film Disclosure Day releases in 20 days, so in preparation, I revisited the last Spielberg film set in modern-times: War of the Worlds (🌟🌟🌟🌟). There are undoubtedly patches of this film that I consider to be the best work of Spielberg’s career. In revisiting this film, it also blew me away that Spielberg released War of the Worlds & Munich within a 7 month stretch in 2005, a fact I totally forgot. How on Earth did he release two masterpieces in the same year? I say all of that to say this- it’s possible we, en masse, still underrated Steven Spielberg’s creative gifts.  I’m not the first nor will I be the last person to draw parallels between the alien invasion that is the central premise of this film to that of the post 9/11 tumult the United States found itself in back in 2005. Spielberg’s telling of this version of War of the Worlds is effectively an allegory for the trauma and paranoia everyone faced after 9/11, all told through the eyes of Tom Cruise’s family fighting for survival. What’s interesting to me is that Spielberg is able to tap into how that paranoia/vulnerability impacted middle-class or low-income people more than anyone else despite the fact Spielberg himself is worth millions. I think an essential component to the story is the fact that Cruise’s family is poor & that exacerbates the entirety of their fight for survival, something which is extremely applicable to countless families impacted by 9/11: the less money you have, the harder it is to obtain proper medical care, to relocate, or to find family and friends.  The stretch in the film’s first 1/3rd where Cruise steps out from his kitchen, down his stoop, and onto the street- surrounded by countless confused neighbors- is some of Spielberg’s best work ever. The way Spielberg brings the aliens to life from the ground, the metaphor of the cathedral smashing in half as the aliens rise, is all of so enthralling. Part of which is attributable to Spielberg’s use of sound in this stretch, which further brings the audience closer to the stakes of this invasion & makes the aliens feel alive. It’s also so deliberate of Spielberg to include the ash/rubble & countless police officers running with Cruise- again, another parallel to 9/11. But by the time a man in the street drops his hand-held camera and we see the aliens for the first time, it’s hard not to be stunned by Spielberg’s direction.  I also think Cruise’s performance in this film is a lot more interesting than I remember because he plays a parent. In all honesty, I truly can’t think of another role where Cruise plays a father- maybe Jerry Maguire, does that even count? It brings out a different survival version of Cruise & I think watching him interact with child actors brings out a different side of him. All of which is without mentioning that Cruise & Spielberg haven’t worked together since this film, largely because this film released at perhaps the lowest point of Cruise’s career- the “Oprah couch” moment, etc. None of that should ultimately overshadow the fact that Cruise delivers an outstanding performance in this film.  My ultimate takeaway? Cruise & Spielberg must reunite.

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Yesterday's Britain, A Better Britain.
We didn't have online shopping, streaming services, 500 TV channels, smartphones, Xbox's, nail bars, vape shops, ten-mile tailbacks at the port of Dover, heatwave warnings ⚠️, electric cars and bicycles and lots of other things. We had perhaps a ZX Spectrum, a battered second hand bike to ride about on, Top Deck shandy, great TV on 3 channels, great music, affordable tickets to football matches, toy shops, parks to safely play in and much more. The question is: were we any worse off?
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SuperSisi@SuperSisi·
I always look for the Sega logo when I’m in an arcade because that’s something I will spend my coins on What is your favorite Sega arcade game ever and why?
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Mart Retro@RetroBrothers·
@OldSchoolBooks1 It's possibly the greatest 16K game ever. The execution of it is nigh on perfect 👌
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The Emilia Show@Latenitemusic1·
RoboCop - 1987 The ED-209 Malfunctions 😂
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