As is usual for some weekends, I’m at Amy’s again. I also took Dave, another Llamasoftie, along too as he had some retro hardware to give Amy. She’s now got a colour monitor for her Amstrad and while cooking tea had a fun bit of gaming in the kitchen with the Amstrad set up next to the cooker.

Tea was made to the squealing tune of Manic Miner scraping its way off tape, Commando and KickStart 2. All amusing games that after spending five minutes loading, we were going to get our money’s worth. If a game takes [i]x[/i] minutes to load, you have to play it for at least that much time - a hard task when some of these old games are just utter rubbish. We found some space shooter that was truly awful, both technically and as a shooter game. They really did peddle some gash back then.

We’re off to the giant Hemswell car boot again, but earlier in the hope of scoring some bargains.