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The Bitmap Bros.

The Bitmap Brothers were the first team of game developers whose work I actively sought out in my early computer gaming years. Their oeuvre spanned shoot-’em-ups, platform games and even sports simulations (of sorts) and each of their games invariably became a classic of the genre. Their designs held up so well their games were converted for the GBA and the Pocket PC platform in 2002. (Speedball 2 ver. GBA is my new holy grail.)

The Chaos Regime pays homage to these Motorola 68000 processor gaming gods and the articles on the site brought back a flood of memories of a time when gaming goodness could be packed into a single disk.

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By Gobi – Monday, July 26, 2004

Small world

Small disaster: Suffering a power blackout when you’ve downloaded 97.8 per cent of a 234MB file.

Small victory: Getting past that ball-breaking World 2-4 level in Super Mario Brothers 3 after numerous attempts. (And in the Funny How It All Worked Out dept: I wouldn’t have been playing if it wasn’t for the blackout.)

Small acknowledgement: Gullible and simple-minded might also describe someone who was suckered into buying a bootleg SMB3 cartridge.

Small rant: eBay’s inability to filter for US-based sellers who sell to overseas customers. You can filter for US sellers and you can filter for items which are available to Malaysian bidders but not for both. “Ships to: United States only” has dashed my hopes one too many times.

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By Gobi – Sunday, July 25, 2004

Fight cool with burning hearts!

Two more reasons to watch Dekaranger:

1) A giant robot riding a giant motorcycle.

2) A magically babe-a-licious villainess.

(Images found on the Tanoyo board.)

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By Gobi – Sunday, July 25, 2004

Fake intell

Wire News reports:

A virus purporting to show images of Osama bin Laden’s suicide popped up on the Internet on Friday, designed to entice recipients to open a file that unleashes malicious software code, security experts said.

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The fake bin Laden suicide file, when opened, unleashes a program called a Trojan horse that makes it possible for attackers to take over infected personal computers running Microsoft’s Windows operating system.

You have to wonder who would be so simple-minded and gullible enough to swallow that codswallop and actually click on that file.

Who indeed.

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By Gobi – Sunday, July 25, 2004

Megablast

Phrase of the day:

Super Nashwan Power

(Screenshots.)

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By Gobi – Saturday, July 24, 2004