Amy N

Hi, I’m Amy! Genderfluid, she/they from 🇬🇧 and this is my #promosky! 🔹 Retro gaming 🔹 Turn based RPGs 🔹 Arcade games 🔹 Side scrolling brawlers 🔹 Movies (and reviewing them!) 🔹 Alternative / goth fashion 🔹 Makeup & nail polish Here I am in my element!

Hey y'all. I've been let down again on some promised client work that would have tided me over till the end of the month. I've put together this mega-bundle containing all 38 issues of my retro gaming history, features, and community contributions digi-zine. ko-fi.com/s/fab638b683 1/2

Back to some PC Eurojank! Vampire Hunters is next to review! Link: almagaming.wolfpack.xyz/gameblogP15.... This was my latest repack at the time and I figured why not give it a try. I heard there was an impossible fight in it and had to see for myself. Is it impossible? Find out!

I wanted to like the new Street Fighter movie, really. The trailer suggested it would lean into the silliness of the classic SF2 roster and their iconic abilities, but the movie doesn't have much more than that... which is fine if that's all you want. Maybe I'm just a film snob. 😅 My full review:

I wanted to like the new Street Fighter movie, really. The trailer suggested it would lean into the silliness of the classic SF2 roster and their iconic abilities, but the movie doesn't have much more than that... which is fine if that's all you want. Maybe I'm just a film snob. 😅 My full review:

okay but this game is absolutely gorgeous

Carol's headband returns home in style! "Tomo-chan is a Girl" is a fun series, although the central premise - that Jun doesn't see Tomo as a girl and gets awkward around her when he notices - gets stretched out a bit too much for plausibility. But without it there'd be no story so... 😅

Learned this morning that Windows 95 users in Japan had their own version of Namco Museum: NAMCO HISTORY. Four volumes were released in 1997-1998, each with 5–6 games included. No walkable museum, sadly, but we do get some appropriately archaeological design vibes and some desktop bonuses.

I got chiles They’re multiplying

A satisfying collision! #DynastyWarriors

In Konami’s SPY: Special Project Y, you have to beat the game twice to fight the final boss - as @almaelma.bsky.social and I found out! The first time round, he flies away on his rocket propelled armchair, taunting you with some of the best arcade-Engrish: “Prepare a coffin for yourselves!” 😂

CONTINUED, The Boy From Venus #18 📦

The Bananas play us out, although sadly not in the studio... This is where I leave you all for tonight, as I'm double booked for the surprise 5th #totp episode! 😭 Be good and I'll see you all next week as usual! ❤️

1987 #totp

Living in a Box aren't just Living in a Box any more #totp

Neil here on a stool, which means this mix contains a last-minute key change. #totp

BOOM BOOM LAKKA LAKKA LAKKA BOOM #totp 🦕🦖🦕🦖🦕🦖🦕🦖🦕🦖🦕🦖🦕🦖🦕🦖

The Wizard klaxon! Welcome Gary Davies and Was (Not Was) with an absolute CHOON #totp

Why was Love Me Do back in the charts? #totp

Please welcome Shaking Stevens! 😅 #totp

My favourite lifeline was Phone a Friend #totp

"We're so happy now", sing the kids from Fame. Funny, they don't sound very happy. What a dirge. #totp

A few months too early for Christmas, Peter? Maybe that was the fashion in Zambezi... #totp

We all love to hate the 2000s episodes, but occasionally it does give us an iconic hit. Here's Kylie's triumphant return to the top of the charts, Spinning Around! #totp

"David, David, stop - what are you even talking about?" "Well you told me to babble on, so..." #totp

Once Atomic Kitten, Hear'say and Liberty X get here in a couple of months, we should see fewer also-ran girl and boy bands. (And that's before Eminem vows to "destroy them" in The Real Slim Shady too!) #totp

Jamie inexplicably performing his links from a dark corner of the studio in a sinister monotone #totp

Girl Thing feels like a throwback to the late 80s - Neneh Cherry wants her Buffalo Stance back #totp

I just looked up its stats and Amazed never climbed higher than number 20, and yet here it is on #totp for the umpteenth time. It got massive radio and music channel airplay too. All that marketing budget, wasted.

What in the actual fuck are Lonestar still doing on #totp with Amazed at NUMBER EFFING 22?!

The insistence on playing songs that are going down is starting to get very annoying. It's not even number one any more, and yet 26 years later we must suffer it twice! #totp

Who in the world is this trying to be Barry White? #totp

All glory to Lady Gail of the Porter Clan! 😄 #totp

New meme format just dropped #totp

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This #totp started strong but is really dragging in the middle...

Oh crumbs this is going on forever. Ashcroft must have had money to burn indeed, recording this crap. #totp

Richard Ashcroft in "walking down yet another street" shocker #totp

Useless fact of the night: Idlewild did the theme to Abbey National's bank adverts in the mid-2000s #totp

Sink back into your sofa and disassociate, it's Moby... #totp

It strikes me that the dancers here for Darude (and the ones that turn up to mime to sampled vocals) are the 2000s era's version of Legs & Co / Pan's People... #totp

It actually is Darude - Sandstorm #totp

They're singing live, which means there's no annoying auto-tune effects on her vocals and it sounds much more natural. Just lovely! #totp

It's time to d-d-d-d-d-d- TOP OF THE POPS!! Come watch along with us on BBC Four! #totp We kick off in June 2000 with Mary Mary's Praise You, a 10/10 no notes banger.

Next Friday, the Game Boy punches above its weight. The Game Boy punches below its weight and a licenced games in an unconvincing wig and glasses.