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I liked Apollo this week too. The "taking out the trash" comment made me laugh, especially when they cut to Jake who didn't look very amused by it.

Phantom and Legend are my faves. Viper's a bit cringe and not great at the games either.

Really wasn't expecting much with the disappointing Crystal Maze reboot in recent memory, but I've been pleasantly surprised by this. A couple of weak links (The Ring, Barney Walsh) but overall, good stuff. My niece is obsessed with it, which is awesome.

As a kid I thought Abba were singing about chicken tikka, not Chiquitita. Still hear it even now.

Last year a friend of mine told me he misheard Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee.
"Later we'll have some fuckin' pie and we'll do some carolling". Again, can't unhear.

Maybe the first episode of Doom. My first experience of it was the 32X port, which wasn't without its issues (like missing a third of the levels and ending with a C:\DOOM prompt) but I was still quite taken in by the atmospherics - how you could look through windows to other areas of the map, the sound of doors opening in the distance and monsters approaching. All quite impressive to young me.

Playing a PS2 for the first time at a friend's house, and thinking Smackdown JBI looks amazing ("full" entrances!!) and is the best game ever.

I'd go along with Vice City and Broken Sword 1 and especially 2. Good times.

"WWF Backlash" as the lost sequel to No Mercy is the big one. Seems to have snowballed from a random forum post 20+ years ago claiming to have seen a Hell in a Cell screenshot in a magazine and that the game was scrapped at 30% complete. There are even samples of Austin's "Glass Shatters" and Christian's "At Last" theme on YouTube claiming to be from this 30% finished game. But a couple of years ago someone from AKI was asked about it and confirmed it never existed.

I do remember hearing a lot of nonsense about Smackdown 2 - there were going to be six-way ladder matches, Bret Hart as a hidden character, play five years of season as Kane without ever losing a match and you'll unlock an inferno match, that sort of thing.

I have this; it's not the real thing but something I made a while back.

Great thread!

Zack Laurence created some gems for Chatsworth TV's game shows back in the 80s:

He was also on board for Interceptor and The Crystal Maze. All cracking themes.

From that poor image, it could be any 'square' font.

This font looks pretty similar - it would perhaps just need distorting a little.

Impact is most likely a custom cut.

Global Force Wrestling looks like Handel in heavy italics.

Looks like SF Automaton to me.

http://www.dafont.com/sf-automaton.font

I mainly use the Futura family for just about any size type - versatile and professional without going down the Helvetica route.

Ultimately I guess it depends what you're going to be using it for?

"Cotten Eye Joe" by Rednex

"Scatman" by Scatman John

"Somewhere in My Heart" by Aztec Camera

"Shot You Down" by Audiobullies

Just interested. How many people played Sonic like the computer and just sprinted forward and jumped and stuff? Or done what I seem to do and stop to collect all the rings and kill all the badniks - liberate the fluffy creatures!

This topic actually reminded me of one cool thing in Sonic, and that was the bonus levels where one person was Sonic, and your friend was Tails, and you would jump over each other to get the lead and collect rings as you ran down a big orange tube

Sonic and Knuckles on Sonic Mega Collection PLUS.

It's amazing how many people my age don't even know what a Mega Drive is, let alone appreciate the brilliance of the initial Sonic series.

1. Dr. Robotnik

2. Knuckles

3. Grounder

4. Sonic

5. EggRobo?

6. Scratch

7. Tails

8. Metal Sonic (or whatever he's called)

9. *Coconuts! (forgot about him!)

10. Arms (from Mean Bean)

Sonic was one of the few things I liked when I was little, the other thing I can think of which comes close is, believe it or not, Countdown.

I tend to go through phases, and I was a Sonic nut from 1996 to, well, I'd say around 1999/2000 when I started to get into wrestling. Recently I've got back into Sonic again (can't say the same for wrestling), and I suddenly have the urge to get a MegaDrive again, because it's just not the same on Mega Collection is it?

Oh, and as for AoSTH:

"Booby Traps? HA! Who do they think we are? Boobs!?" - Grounder The Genius

"We almost had Sonic but thanks to Grounder we..." - Scratch

"You don't HAVE to tell me... I can see what happened! - Robotnik

"Hey, you really are getting smarter!" - Grounder

Hilarity in itself.

Oh and the bit in Grounder the Genius where Robotnik is turned into a basketball, tennis ball and rugby ball still makes me laugh.

Scratch waffles Robotnik with the racquet "Whoa, Nasty Slice!"

I feel it was truly the badniks in AoSTH that made it anything decent - Sonic and Tails were just plain annoying.

Scratch and Grounder only 7th They should be above Tails in my opinion, if only for Tails' god-awful ability in defeating The Marble Garden Zone Boss, but maybe that's just me being a novice at boss beatings.

Speaking of those two 'bumbling numb-bot skulls', I recently got the entire series of Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog on DVD - it was a great buy, apart from Tails who is just plain annoying throughout. "The World's Largest Paperweight" "Scrap Metal" "Breakaway Bumpkin" Grounder "The Genius" is one of my favourite characters of all time. I also find it funny that, given they were portrayed as so dumb, they were placed on the higher levels of Mean Bean Machine.

As a 9 year old boy, I had never proverbially shit myself as much as I did when Super Metallix appeared before my eyes.

The Ice Cap Zone Music is different, but yeah most of it is converted.

Hill Top Zone's music is half of the reason why I hate the level in the first place. Bloody screeching nonsense...

I hate how impossible it is to find Sonic Master System music.

Sonic 2 on the Game Gear/Master System had that bizarre bit where Sonic is falling to certain doom in a minecart, only to be RESCUED by Robotnik, who opts to make him fight an easily defeated robot insect thing, doesn't it? That was odd.

I was the first person in my family to beat the Barons of Hell on the 32-X Doom. And Operation: Yellow Knife on the original Rainbow Six.

Also I was top of the leaderboard on WeDigTV - that was a great experience.

Another one I can remember was involving WWE Smackdown - Shut Your Mouth. We did an Ultimate Submission match and it went 30 minutes - with me as Edge against my friend who was Kurt Angle. After a series of three successful Edgecators about 10 minutes in, I had a healthy 3-1 lead. However, a series of Kurt Angle attacks left me 'dazed' - I remember it was the first ever time I'd seen a superstar do it on a SmackDown game, showing signs of injury. Edge just kept limping and it really got to me - and eventually it ended 5-7 to Kurt Angle.

Another odd bout came from the same game, where I was doing Slobber Knocker as the Rock and notched up 87 wins before I got so bored I turned it off. Another weird thing about it is, after 30 or so, JR and the King didn't say a thing.

Other great matches came from No Mercy - I remember going to an awesome 35-minute hardcore match against Cactus Jack in the Championship Mode, with me as Shawn Michaels. That game was great on so many levels, although a game of the original Smackdown will never go a miss.

I fired up Doom Collector's Edition and played through 'Knee Deep in the Dead'. Going through it relatively easily on hurt me plenty, then Phobos Anomaly . Those two Barons of Hell in those chambers made me jump - and quickly put me out of my misery. I showed them who was boss in the second go though, although the Spectres did help a tad.

Episode 2 Level 8 - Tower of Babel was the time when I hastily QUIT the game after 10 goes against the Cyberdemon was 0-10. I was just wandering around looking for it then I almost walked right into the blasted thing

This has had me addicted for quite a while now:

WeDigTV

Calling themselves the world's first 'TV-2' network, they are offering great replicas of UK Gameshows like Countdown, Deal or No Deal, Who Wants to be A Millionaire and more.

It's easy to use and can be highly addictive, the only gripe I have with it is that sometimes the games outright refuse to load (or sometimes they just load at the speed of a tortoise in glue) since they updated the look of the website. Deal or No Deal seems to be the worst culprit, when it took me nearly 20 minutes to get a call from The Banker.

However, this could be down to my 512k connection.

Countdown is my favourite though and that normally works without any problems. I recently managed a 69,000 score, which certainly was a good position to be in.

If you're a gameshow nut, you have to look at this.

I am a total Sonic the Hedgehog nut when it comes to Mega Drive games. Now I may have only been 2 when Sonic and Knuckles were released, but when I first got to play them when I was about 5 I was hooked and I have been ever since. My favourite of the lot has to be Sonic 3, but when combined with S&K it is that much better, and both games house the best game music, the Dr. Robotnik theme tune is the best darn game music I have ever heard!

The only Sonic games I really dislike on the Mega Drive are Sonic Spinball and Sonic 3-D. S3D looked nice and all, just I found the controls difficult and I think had it been in the format of the older predecessors it would have been a much better game. Sonic Spinball I just found boring, but I guess that's my opinion.

Overall I think that the original Sonic series (1-S&K) are gems and they have WAY more playability (but, then again, so do many games from this era) than any of the games released nowadays. These games never get old or boring.

Other favourites have to be Micro Machines and Flashback, not forgetting to mention WWF Raw and Cool Spot. I also remember Doom on the 32X, if that counts. That used to scare me when I was little.

Just a quick drop-in to say hi and that I'm still reading this, brother. Backlash is Taker/Kane, well I must say I have loved the way you've been portraying The Big Red Machine lately and I would like to think he will be the winner. Plus with Kane besting Austin at WM, I have to say he kind of has the advantage.

Loving the new style layout too, by the way.