I almost thought today's episode wasn't going to happen. I started checking the directory listings for a few floppies, and suddenly things started to fail. I couldn't read any at all, and ended up trying a series of combinations of different computers, floppy drives and cables, all with similar (bad) results. I went back to […]

In this week's episode we mostly played Summer Games II. It's not exactly how I expected things to turn out, but there you go. It's also a game I'd already played back in Floppy Friday #32 – I knew it looked familiar! (sigh) – but I chose a different set of disciplines to be awful […]

In this week's episode we play 4 games on a Commodore 64, loaded from 5 1/4" floppy disk. We started with a game I had high hopes for – coming from Gremlin Graphics, and being based on a series of "fighting fantasy" gamebooks (although not the Steve Jackson & Ian Livingston ones, it seems) – […]

In this week's episode we look at 5 more Commodore 64 games loaded from floppy disk. Things kick off with Shadow Dancer, which seems like a very playable side-scrolling fighting game. We then try a logic/puzzle game called Sliding Skill before loading a German-language steam engine simulator (how cool is that?) called Dampfmaschine. We then […]

In this week's episode we play five more games loaded from a single floppy onto a Commodore 64. This week's selection was actually really interesting, I found: we started with an action adventure called Olli & Lissa: The Ghost of Shilmore Castle, part of a series that apparently did quite well when released as budget […]

In this week's episode we start with a few obscure German games (no offence to my German friends – this is a snap judgment based on a few web searches), called Katz und Maus and then Rudi the Rat, before finding a floppy with some more interesting fare: River Raid, Sub Hunt and Raid over […]

In this week's episode we once again play some more games on a Commodore 64 that we find on random floppies. We start with a game I remembered we hadn't had time to try last week, which turned out to be International Karate. As the directory listing stated "Seite A" ("Side A" in German), I […]

I'm just back from a fantastic 10-day vacation with my family on the beautiful Italian island of Sardinia. More on that in an upcoming post, but for now the first priority has been to get an episode of Floppy Friday out on schedule. Once again this episode had zero preparation, but I was very happy […]

We made it to 50 episodes! I'll only record another 14 – to take it up to a round 64 – so we're getting close now. I wanted to make it a special one, but as I was a little busy getting ready to leave on holiday I didn't quite get the time to research […]

In today's episode we go more retro than ever, dusting off an old 1970s Pong console from Inno-Hit. We played all 10 of the games on the console, which certainly made the editing simpler than usual: no speeding up needed, at all! My 12-year-old daughter kindly joined me off-screen (out of respect for her privacy) […]