Uploaded November 2011 | Updated September 2026, 23 hours ago
Harry Yack takes a trip to the home of donkeys, expensive lighting and billions of bed and breakfasts. No time for sausage 'n' chips or walks along the promenade, however, as the 2011 Replay retro video game type thingy was also taking place just down the road at Norbreck Castle.
Footage here was taken on the first day of the event, Saturday 5 November. Highlights included a cosplay parade (not featured), prize raffle (not featured) and a wet T-shirt contest (not really). There was also a full itinerary of talks and competitions taking place during the day, so this video merely skims the surface of the delights on offer. And no, I'm not talking about the hamburgers.
Features:
Retro Console Zone
Retro Computer Corner 4:18
Prince of Persia (Commodore SX-64) 5:11
Pinball Alley 6:33
Pac-Man (Arcade) 8:05
Epoch TV Vader 8:39
...and a bunch more mildly 'entertaining' vignettes.
Harry Yack takes a trip to the home of donkeys, expensive lighting and billions of bed and breakfasts. No time for sausage 'n' chips or walks along the promenade, however, as the 2011 Replay retro video game type thingy was also taking place just down the road at Norbreck Castle.
Footage here was taken on the first day of the event, Saturday 5 November. Highlights included a cosplay parade (not featured), prize raffle (not featured) and a wet T-shirt contest (not really). There was also a full itinerary of talks and competitions taking place during the day, so this video merely skims the surface of the delights on offer. And no, I'm not talking about the hamburgers.
Features:
Retro Console Zone
Retro Computer Corner 4:18
Prince of Persia (Commodore SX-64) 5:11
Pinball Alley 6:33
Pac-Man (Arcade) 8:05
Epoch TV Vader 8:39
...and a bunch more mildly 'entertaining' vignettes.
![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")
![Harrier Attack 30th Anniversary Challenge [Amstrad CPC] IN COLOUR!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/P186dPOSXYI/mqdefault.jpg "Harrier Attack 30th Anniversary Challenge [Amstrad CPC] IN COLOUR!
The Speccy/Amstrad get shot em up classic enters its third decade in existence sometime this year. To celebrate, Harry Yack attempts to do something he never quite managed in the early to mid-Nineties: eat a whole five finger Kit Kat. Indeed, such things werent invented back then (I think - someone will be along to confirm it after lunch).
To make things a *bit* more interesting, while Mr Yack stuffs his gob with melted wafer theres free* footage of some game or other. I dunno; I forgot all about it because this was recorded some time in late 2012, possibly.
Apologies for frame skip and slurring. My computer was drunk and my brain fell out, OK?
From the (now sadly defunct) official Durell website:
Harrier Attack was a resounding success for Durell, selling over 250,000 copies in total, worldwide, and becoming Durells number one best seller.
HY addendum: Alan Sugar gave away a further nine billion copies of the game as free software bundled with the Amstrad CPC464.
Happy birthday, Harrier Attack, you owd get.")
![Late Night with Pokemon Green [Game Boy]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Pq307Wbkdxw/mqdefault.jpg "Late Night with Pokemon Green [Game Boy]
Warning: This video is certainly not for kids. Actually, neither is Pokemon Green Engrish - its full of not-so-subtle innuendo and references to parts of the body you wouldnt want your 10-year old child knowing about for a good few years yet.")
![Selfie: Sisters of the Amniotic Lens [14/05/15] Messages of hope in a world of bum numbness.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PtDJ0emrrDI/mqdefault.jpg "Selfie: Sisters of the Amniotic Lens [14/05/15] Messages of hope in a world of bum numbness.
Join the lens... http://store.steampowered.com/app/287140/
Guest starring a bottle message left by a certain subscriber! :)
Your message offers hope in a world of bum numbness. Cheers.
Once, at the age of 12, I set a cat on fire... Nobody will find this out. You live too far from me and our eyes will never cross on the street.
This game truly is a life changer... To everyone who reads this, in this crazy fd up realm we live in, I want you to know that love for your fellow man... is the key to enlightenment.
If I met you on the street, would you spare me the laser beam in the groin?
Next time: A tribute to the Madchester beat. Maybe - depends on how many people remember that New Order song.")
![VERY GLITCHED Street Gang Football! [Amstrad CPC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QYJHcDnabos/mqdefault.jpg "VERY GLITCHED Street Gang Football! [Amstrad CPC]
Look out for the glitches!
Dodgy hacked ROMs invariably lead to unexpected hilarity, and this one is no exception. Watch as Harry Yacks emulator crumbles under the weight of this Codies classic... will his Windows 8 computer survive the experience?
Listen as a wizened old bovid pines for the days of booting balls at passing cars and legging it when its driver brakes and chases after you, fist held aloft.
Someone tell CollieUK to do this one. Ill send him a fiver if he agrees.
Music by D. Whittaker. Cheers, D.
http://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/street_gang_football.htm
7:40 for all you glitch hunters out there.")
![[Archive] ISS64 International Cup Challenge! (HYL 9/1/2016)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R7PBBpk5D6Y/mqdefault.jpg "[Archive] ISS64 International Cup Challenge! (HYL 9/1/2016)
Brought to you by Seaman Fingers.
Harry Yack vs the International Cup. Will he do it?!")
![Cop Botherer - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas [PS2]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RXtX59D4BBg/mqdefault.jpg "Cop Botherer - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas [PS2]
WARNING: PROFANITY.
More of my favourite pastime in San Andreas - taking on the cops!
The footage in this video has been sped up by 33%, Benny Hill style to improve the pacing and such. Also its much funnier.
Includes the most epic train crash of all time!
MTS Crashes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5X_2yVUYj8")
![Hamburger (Fast Food) on TV Boy II [Atari 2600 clone] - Youre Getting Fatter!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RYvZzmJed7A/mqdefault.jpg "Hamburger (Fast Food) on TV Boy II [Atari 2600 clone] - Youre Getting Fatter!
Its time for more food-related fun and frolics courtesy Fast Food or should I say Hamburger for the Atari 2600. This particular version of the game, which is plagued with colour emulation problems, can be found on the Akor/Systema TV Boy, an unlicensed clone console thingy in the shape of a controller.
Fast Food is exactly as the title claims: its really fast and has lots of food in it. Your dismembered mouth is charged with the task of consuming grub for points, which you will soon find quite an addictive concept. After drawing you in with novelty value, the game soon presents quite a challenge as the various burgers, milkshakes and tortilla chips come at you quicker than John Prescott when he hears the buffets open. It becomes increasingly difficult to dodge the purple peppers (AKA pickles or sausages) which will inevitably lead to a debilitating, gassy death - the things whizz by so fast you cant help but inadvertently swallow them.
I wont go so far as to say this is the best game on the TV Boy, but its certainly my favourite, even if it does require ever-better lightning reactions as you advance through the difficulty levels. In years gone by we coped with this typical Atari requirement much better, but even today much enjoyment can be found in gobbling up items of unhealthy food. And Im not just talking about in real life.")
![[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?")
