Remember Sport Billy. I just dug out that picture of him from t’interweb. Don’t remember him looking so smug, camp or indeed, so American. Then again, when can you rely on memories from your youth being reliable.
I used to think that ‘Derby Day’ on the ZX Spectrum was magnificent. It wasn’t. It was shite. Just a collection of random number generators and graphics of horses with unrealistic joint action in their knees.
I was Sport Billy this weekend. Three different sports watched in one weekend. Not bad for me. Saturday was Scotland’s disastrous start against Macedonia. I mean, Macedonia…. what happened there?
I’m afraid Georgie Burley may have been on the paint stripper again, particularly after the selection of Kirk Broadfoot to the squad. Don’t book your tickets to South Africa just yet. In fact, judging by press reports, don’t book your tickets to South Africa at all. It seems that by all accounts, Eyemouth will be in better shape to host the 2010 World Cup than South Africa if what we’ve heard from FIFA observers is true.
Sunday saw the All-Ireland Hurling Final with Kilkenny beating Waterford in the biggest hammering since David Baillie kicked seven bells out of ‘Mad’ Mackie in a playground fight in my 3rd year at high school. Wasn’t so mad after that. Just daft looking. As were Waterford yesterday. Humped. Well and truly. Nowhere to hide.
Sunday night saw me watch a double header of NFL action. Very enjoyable, although I am now massively sported out. Anyway, must fly. Here is a screenshot from the aforementioned ‘Derby Day’ to remind you how bad video games in the 1980′s could be.
If you need further reminding of how bad it was, you can actually play it here:- http://www.zxspectrum.net/
on Sep 9th, 2008 at 6:20 am
aha, Derby Day! Many a rainy afternoon were spent putting £2 on horse number 3. I can still remember the tune to it when the race was about to start, do do do do do do dooooo. Classic
on Oct 2nd, 2008 at 9:04 am
Yeap this was a classic and changed the face of gaming as we know it , what does this 3 minute boy know!!! , if only there was a 2009 version…