![[Commentary] Premier Manager 97 [Mega Drive] revisited | Tales From the Paper Shop @HarryYack](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SWZmpaJE-LY/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
Commentary/ramble from 2018 to replace the 'lost' review from c. 2009. Re-edited and exported in HD 2023.
Topics covered:
0:00 Tales from the paper shop
2:11 Bizarre advertisement hoardings
2:42 The ethics of save scumming/cheating
4:05 In-match mechanics
5:29 Licensed(?) player names
6:32 PC vs. console: football management gaming on a budget
8:10 In-game 'teletext' animatics!
9:14 A fax machine surprise
Commentary/ramble from 2018 to replace the 'lost' review from c. 2009. Re-edited and exported in HD 2023.
Topics covered:
0:00 Tales from the paper shop
2:11 Bizarre advertisement hoardings
2:42 The ethics of save scumming/cheating
4:05 In-match mechanics
5:29 Licensed(?) player names
6:32 PC vs. console: football management gaming on a budget
8:10 In-game 'teletext' animatics!
9:14 A fax machine surprise
![[Commentary] Premier Manager 97 [Mega Drive] revisited | Tales From the Paper Shop](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SWZmpaJE-LY/mqdefault.jpg "[Commentary] Premier Manager 97 [Mega Drive] revisited | Tales From the Paper Shop
Commentary/ramble from 2018 to replace the lost review from c. 2009. Re-edited and exported in HD 2023.
Topics covered:
0:00 Tales from the paper shop
2:11 Bizarre advertisement hoardings
2:42 The ethics of save scumming/cheating
4:05 In-match mechanics
5:29 Licensed(?) player names
6:32 PC vs. console: football management gaming on a budget
8:10 In-game teletext animatics!
9:14 A fax machine surprise")
![FIFA 98: Road to the World Cup [Mega Drive] video review](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TYfDpUAwDak/mqdefault.jpg "FIFA 98: Road to the World Cup [Mega Drive] video review
Warning: extreme bias ahead.
Edited together on a Bank Holiday afternoon off. Yay for not having anything to do!
Note: there are tons of little inaccuracies in here, like the fact FIFA didnt appear on the Dreamcast, or ISS Deluxe was released just one year before this game. I dont believe AEK Athens are in the game either. Couldnt be bothered going back to fix them though, and anyway, grant me a bit of artistic license, eh?")
![Can you run a complete Road Rash race on foot? [Mega Drive]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Udv59lQKtY4/mqdefault.jpg "Can you run a complete Road Rash race on foot? [Mega Drive]
Answers to Questions Nobody Asked No. 1 (of 1): Is it possible to run a full Road Rash race without your bike?
Idea posited by Snazzyhoppy, whose FAQ can be found here:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/genesis/586425-road-rash/faqs
Suggested by Livetoby and TheCheapKills:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCheapKills
I guess the next step is a complete bikeless run of the game! Now that would be badass (and stupid).")
![Arnies Quest for Coffee in Terminator 2 [Amstrad CPC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VivaqSxQDbQ/mqdefault.jpg "Arnies Quest for Coffee in Terminator 2 [Amstrad CPC]
In which Arnie Yack *kills* Novabug! From Harry Yacks Valentines Night Love-In livestream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5m700-JwnM
Starring:
http://youtube.com/JesusIsTheTreeOfLife
http://youtube.com/Novabug
http://youtube.com/JL6Gaming
http://youtube.com/GrumpyGamingHD")
![INFURIATED by Oh! Mummy [Amstrad CPC] World Record Attempt](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WdNh1wZ_FyE/mqdefault.jpg "INFURIATED by Oh! Mummy [Amstrad CPC] World Record Attempt
Harry Yack gets very mad indeed! NB This was recorded last Sunday before Novabugson was knocked off the top of the Retro Records leaderboard.
Dont click the following link until youve seen the video, otherwise all will be spoiled. ;)
Interghosts Retro Records: http://www.retrounlim.com/interghost/oh-mummy-5-lives-high-score-2/")
![Amsofts Fruit Machine [Amstrad CPC] - World Record Attempt best effort](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WlUYz5FDNKA/mqdefault.jpg "Amsofts Fruit Machine [Amstrad CPC] - World Record Attempt best effort
Final score: 820. Uses FAQ to manipulate nudges. As such, might be null and void, but who cares? :P
Retro Records Leaderboard: http://www.retrounlim.com/interghost/fruit-machine-500-credits-high-score/
Harry Yacks Twitch: http://twitch.tv/harryyack
Extracted from the full version, starts around 51mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTrltwoEGC0")
![Fu-Kung Hell... Fu-Kung in Las Vegas [Amstrad CPC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XvNODWAYbiM/mqdefault.jpg "Fu-Kung Hell... Fu-Kung in Las Vegas [Amstrad CPC]
Any minute.... now, Fu-Kung will... get from... one end of the screen... to the other. Then get zapped by the casinos Star Trek lethal laser security system. Yep, platforming only really arrived on the Amstrad CPC with the Great Giana Sisters, Im afraid.
I would have preferred a card game, actually. Is it too late to play Sam Fox Strip Poker?")
![[2/4] Engrish Pokedex Guide (Bootleg Pokemon Green)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Yej-FXLikcA/mqdefault.jpg "[2/4] Engrish Pokedex Guide (Bootleg Pokemon Green)
Back for more, eh?
Your kids trading card game infected with terrible translations and typos worse than a Harry Yack video description? Better call the doctor... Doctor Aochider AKA Okada AKA Aochidyer! The game itself is somewhat vague about the standardised spelling.
Video split into four parts due to the whole thing being over an hour long. Note to self for future: brevity wins the internet.
In this part: 027 Deser to 065 State.
Thanks to Super8RobotG6 for the footage! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrX393NRxLI")
![The Master Driver: Driver 2 [Sony Playstation]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZGOEY-6TfV4/mqdefault.jpg "The Master Driver: Driver 2 [Sony Playstation]
Donation by Fawltykog. Cheers, Fawlts!
Retro Yakking presents a driving masterclass courtesy sandboxy GTA wannabe Driver 2. Or not - thanks to a worrying inability to concentrate during the cut scenes, Harry Yack immediately slaughters his right hand man Jones, and the very person he was attempting to protect, one Pink Lenny.
They arent the only ones to suffer, however, for Mr Yacks driving is almost as bad as that of an anthropomorphic yak who has pilfered a pair of severed human hands and attached them to his hooves. Needless to say, numerous innocent pedestrians with slow-motion walk cycles did not survive.
We do not need the boundaries of the road to tell us what to do!
Music during cutscenes is not from the game but Incompetech.com, because I am paranoid about copyright claims on music tracks.")
![El Laberinto del Sultan [Amstrad CPC] Traducciones sin Sentido (Pointless Translations) S01E01](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZH0nax1bxXs/mqdefault.jpg "El Laberinto del Sultan [Amstrad CPC] Traducciones sin Sentido (Pointless Translations) S01E01
It is a little known fact that Gem Softwares wireframe ghost-dodging sim Sultans Maze was so culturally significant it warranted a Spanish language version. Evidently the South-West European market for hedge-jumping was still burgeoning as late as 1989, when PEZ Software prompted the question, are they still re-releasing this gumph?
Ahh, only in Japan... erm, Spain?!
I promise this is the last youll hear of Sultans, at least for the time being. Recent Halloween festivities combined with bumper playing sessions have me nervously looking round the corner of alleys and ginnels for seemingly no rational reason. But there could be a ghost round there!
Dont worry, there arent any illegal VHS rips of the rest of this mythical Pointless Translations series on the way - all remaining footage was either destroyed or buried beneath the Thelwall Viaduct following the great Video Tape Crash of 2000.
Lo siento, pero no puedo entrar en cualquier correspondencia, en español. Wait, I mean, I apologise for not being able to enter into any correspondence in Spanish. Ugh, I dunno what happened there - I was possessed by the Demon of Google Translate or something.")
