Here I Am, Rock You Like A Hurricane
Yes well er.
HI! I’m Al Ewing, writer for 2000AD, novelist and weekly blogger, dipping my filth-encrusted toe into the clear waters of daily blogging for the first time. Jonic essentially picked my subject for me by having the sheer temerity to start a blog about retro games. Luckily it seems that all computer games as I understand them are now considered ‘retro’ games, and the yoof are all off playing a machine that is actually called wee and involves waving a kind of electric cock around in the air in a desperate battle to prove their manhood. Against Wario.
By the way, I know absolutely nothing about computers or gaming. I’m completely unqualified for this job on any kind of technical level whatsoever. That said - I did make a pilot in the original Wing Commander called Judas Traitor.
His callsign was Backstabber. He was a tough man – a hard man, but a fair man – a man who knew how to get the job done. A man who got the job done by luring his friends and co-workers way, way out into the lonely depths of space where they couldn’t scream for help or claim any of the kills for themselves, the greedy little doomed gannets, and then blowing them to pieces with missiles. I particularly enjoyed telling Iceman’s corpse that I’d get the bastard that did this to him knowing full well that it was me.
Don’t try and tell me that wasn’t the most efficient way of playing the game.
So as you can see, I’m fully qualified to be writing this by the ancient right of Wing Commander. Tomorrow we’ll get right into it with the Complete History Of Computer Gaming. See you then.
Welcome, Al. I can already see why you and Jonic are mates.
OK… that wasn’t really Ingrid above. Apparently I hadn’t switched out her name for mine in the Admin page…
So, welcome… again. :D
Yeah, what Ingrid said. :) And thanks so much for getting that song stuck in my head now (though it does rock, I must say. ha…I just heard Bald Man whistling it in the other room). I know extremely little about gaming. The only console we had growing up was the Atari 2600. Bald Man and I have been gifted with a PS2 recently and I feel so cool now. :P But I’ll be hanging around here anyway because you made me laugh out loud (for real, not just typing it!) three times already.
Welcome to b5. :)
This really is Ingrid ;) Welcome, Al. Looking forward to your posts. :D
Jonic had a bit of a funny turn here and asked me to delete everything he said. But I’ll happily do the same for any commenter on this blog if they’d like their words to disappear from the internet! Just ask!
Who says this isn’t the Marvel Age of Big Brother-style Memory Hole Action, True Believer?
So, uhm, Jonic is Ingrid. Right? And they get all deleted. Great. Oh, and welcome.
Nope…
I’m Jonic, Al is the new writer, Ingrid is the old Channel Editor, Bald man is the new channel editor, Bald Man accidentally commented while logged in as Ingrid, so Ingrid left a comment to clear that up, then I said a bunch of shit that I asked Al to delete, which he did, but left the commenters name in place so it looks like I said it.
Does that clear it up for you?
Cheers Al :)
Ok. Fine. Who am I then and why is this big hairy guy looking at me like that?
I am a big hairy guy and I’m looking at you because you’re the only one of Jonic’s readers left and I’m wondering how to keep you hooked to the new stylee.
Uhm, use a hook, a razor and some foamy soap… BTW, really loved the history posts…