![For the Good of the National Grid - High Rise [Amstrad CPC] @HarryYack](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JkYB5imXwt8/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded February 2013 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
AKA Butchering the Classics #427.
High Rise picks up from where Harrier Attack leaves off as yet more innocent civilians are subject to horrific peacetime treatment. Good job it's only a game, eh?
Surely everyone knows this? It's the one where you circle a cluster of skyscrapers in a helicopter, destroying sections of them one bomb at a time. It's actually quite enjoyable, but as usual, Harry Yack suffers from a bout of performance anxiety and fails to portray the game to its fullest extent. Ah well, I never said this is a walkthrough. ;)
Predates the 'infamous' bootlegged 'City Bomber' by 2 years. :P
gamesdbase.com/Media/SYSTEM/Sinclair_ZX_Spectrum/Title/big/Dive_Bomber_-_1988_-_Gremlin_Graphics.jpg
AKA Butchering the Classics #427.
High Rise picks up from where Harrier Attack leaves off as yet more innocent civilians are subject to horrific peacetime treatment. Good job it's only a game, eh?
Surely everyone knows this? It's the one where you circle a cluster of skyscrapers in a helicopter, destroying sections of them one bomb at a time. It's actually quite enjoyable, but as usual, Harry Yack suffers from a bout of performance anxiety and fails to portray the game to its fullest extent. Ah well, I never said this is a walkthrough. ;)
Predates the 'infamous' bootlegged 'City Bomber' by 2 years. :P
gamesdbase.com/Media/SYSTEM/Sinclair_ZX_Spectrum/Title/big/Dive_Bomber_-_1988_-_Gremlin_Graphics.jpg
![For the Good of the National Grid - High Rise [Amstrad CPC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JkYB5imXwt8/mqdefault.jpg "For the Good of the National Grid - High Rise [Amstrad CPC]
AKA Butchering the Classics #427.
High Rise picks up from where Harrier Attack leaves off as yet more innocent civilians are subject to horrific peacetime treatment. Good job its only a game, eh?
Surely everyone knows this? Its the one where you circle a cluster of skyscrapers in a helicopter, destroying sections of them one bomb at a time. Its actually quite enjoyable, but as usual, Harry Yack suffers from a bout of performance anxiety and fails to portray the game to its fullest extent. Ah well, I never said this is a walkthrough. ;)
Predates the infamous bootlegged City Bomber by 2 years. :P
http://gamesdbase.com/Media/SYSTEM/Sinclair_ZX_Spectrum/Title/big/Dive_Bomber 1988 Gremlin_Graphics.jpg")
![Silent Paperboy [Amstrad CPC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KDlijDXcjug/mqdefault.jpg "Silent Paperboy [Amstrad CPC]
In which Harry gets overexcited by a 25-year old game.
Ready for some traditional Yack hot air and hyperbole? Good, because Bog Standard Reviews is back. Thank goodness for the Easter Weekend, eh?
Music is from the arcade version, because the tone deaf fools forgot to put background tunes in the CPC version!")
![Super Hang On [Mega Drive] - video review](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KJ-rAbmLcLU/mqdefault.jpg "Super Hang On [Mega Drive] - video review
I need a new scriptwriter.")
![[Archive] Bog Standard Walkthroughs LIVE! Selfie: Sisters of the Amniotic Lens (23/05/15)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Kvoyj5kWvNI/mqdefault.jpg "[Archive] Bog Standard Walkthroughs LIVE! Selfie: Sisters of the Amniotic Lens (23/05/15)
More fly-swattin action with Rail Slave Games cult indie smash SOTAL. http://store.steampowered.com/app/287140/
Sorry about all the tuts - it is the product of a perpetually dry mouth and an insistence on shunning the word err.
Warning: Spoilers abound, since this *is* a playthrough... :P
It seems these Selfie streams are becoming slightly more well-known in the general indiesphere - certainly, at least one message references a previous livestream. Good for Harry.
1:01:20 Dodgy goings on in the adjacent room!!!
1:24:20 The games final cinematic - SPOILERS!
1:32:00 Checking messages")
![Type-in Tacenda: Smiley v. the Grumpies [Amstrad CPC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LmAdwvV1BaY/mqdefault.jpg "Type-in Tacenda: Smiley v. the Grumpies [Amstrad CPC]
If Centipods was the budget brand version of Centipede, then this is surely the free sample edition of Pac-Man. Roland Waddilove actually coded a few half-decent BASIC games in the mid-80s, but I really dont think this is one of them.
The main problem here is that it is not entirely clear how, or if you even can, defeat the enemy faces (henceforth referred to as ghosts for obvious reasons). Without a method to effectively extinguish them, it is rather hard to evade the clutches (mouth?) of three frowny faces with simple yet deadly BASIC AI.
Weirdly, in a test recording for this, I did actually manage to defeat two of the three ghosts so either it *is* possible or I glitched out the game. I have not invested a seconds worth of play in the game since I made this video so I am unable to confirm or deny this with any certainty.
Want a good Pac-Man game for the Amstrad? Well, you cant get much better than Pac-Man itself, I guess:
http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7270")
![Supermans Dead - Music 2000/MTV Music Generator [PSX] rock/grunge original composition](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NEt8XwW0k2I/mqdefault.jpg "Supermans Dead - Music 2000/MTV Music Generator [PSX] rock/grunge original composition
A strange combination of noises thrown together in vaguely harmonious fashion. This tune, a slowish, grungy affair, represents the peak of my music composing with the game some years ago. Yes, it must have been about 2001 I created this monstrosity.
Anyway, you might be interested to know there were some lyrics. Ahem.
Supermans dead, he flew into the wall
He fell to the floor, which hurt him some more
*Cough*... yeah. Just so you know, Im not really a fan of grunge music and never have been, it just so happened that this particular track turned out that way.
PS Apparently there was a commercial band that released a song of the same name. I only discovered that today. So yeah, this has nothing to do with it.")
![Won 15p on Pub Trivia [Amstrad CPC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NHLuMTj854o/mqdefault.jpg "Won 15p on Pub Trivia [Amstrad CPC]
Kids, *do* try gambling at home with Codemasters classic Pub Trivia!
Why bother walking a whole 20 feet to the pub across the road when you can sit here and watch Harry Yack feed virtual 10 pence pieces into a non-existent pub bandit? Because hes rubbish, thats why.
Cheeky plug for the backup channel: http://youtube.com/HarryYack
Heres that Arnold quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8-HDUBbtgQ")
![Type-in Tacenda: Not worth examining - Stonefear Castle [Amstrad CPC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NtDMlTWR72Y/mqdefault.jpg "Type-in Tacenda: Not worth examining - Stonefear Castle [Amstrad CPC]
Remember, people: do *not* feed the trolls. Unless they are about to eat you, in which situation it is just about acceptable to offer them the rest of your Kit Kat. While he stares in wonderment at the vivid red wrapper, thick dollops of saliva dripping from his grog-blossomed chin, one can make good ones exit. That is, if you know the correct command(s).
Sadly, with these simplistic text adventure games, it is more a case of finding out what you have to do than having fun exploring what you arent supposed to. As a result, you could very easily get stuck for days, perhaps weeks, until someone tells you you have to combine the hammer and the candle to create a bandage to fix your sword. Only *then* does it all become obvious. But then you realise youre stuck on the next part and promptly give up once more. :P
That sad part is, I havent even got far enough into the game for the troll to kill me! Nothing I do or say affects him in any way, as if he is waiting patiently for the trigger word or action like a spy from one of Ian Flemings Bond novels. I know it is possible to die, for I have seen the games code thanks to that handy LIST command. I am too much of a BASIC noob, however, to decipher the correct solution from it. Boo!")
![Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? UK [PSX] & 2nd Edition GRUMPY Video Review](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OTAij8qpAsA/mqdefault.jpg "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? UK [PSX] & 2nd Edition GRUMPY Video Review
Harry Yack takes a look back at a game so culturally significant it hardly matters.
Who Wants to be a Millionaire stood proudly atop the video games sales charts for weeks, nay months, after its release. This delivers false promise, for due to the unbelievable popularity of the TV show, every other parent who got their kid a Playstation for Christmas went out to Dixons and bought a copy. For 35 quid. In actuality, all you get is a bog-standard question and answer affair, and you know how fantastically those types of games translate to the Playstation. Exactly, they dont.
For that sort of price, youd at least expect some half decent bonus games beyond a single fastest-finger first playoff. Sadly, you cannot take on Tarrant in hand-to-hand combat over that cheque for £64,000, nor can you go on a rampage around the Millionaire studio hunting for collectables - in this case empty coffee cartons and bottles of Benylin.
Not that it would be all that difficult, with the audience having gone home some three and half hours ago. But at least it would have offered something new beyond the entertainment you can get from simply watching the TV show on Challenge. For free. Well, not counting that hefty cable/satellite subscription Murdoch/Branson has you forking out month after month. Blasted phone hacking/hot air balloon flying media moguls.
Director commentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBpC78r-0lI")
