This is the Master System version rather than the Mega Drive one. I’d never really played it before, but had heard comments that it is better than the 16bit version. I did enjoy it quite a lot, but I don’t believe that to be the case at all.
This is the last full length Rincewind novel in the Discworld series. There are two main plot threads, one being Rincewind stranded in XXXX, a continent parodying Australia which has yet to settle in as it was added by the gods after the others were already there. The other features the faculty of the Unseen University trying to locate Rincewind hoping that he can help cure the librarian of his illness that causes him to change shape (Rincewind is the only person who knows the librarians name). The wizards end up stranded on a deserted island thousands of years in the past inhabited by strange and unique animals and plants created by the god of evolution.
I had this as a part of the Mega Games 2 cartridge for my Mega Drive as a kid. Mobygames says that it was only available as a pack in with the Mega Drive 2, and never for sale separately. I must have bought it second hand as I had the original model with the headphone socket on the front.
The Colour of Magic is the first book in the Discworld series, and I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve read it. The book is structured as a collection of four loosely connected novellas following the adventures of the inept wizard Rincewind and the tourist Twoflower. Despite having read it numerous times, I still found myself laughing out loud at its silliness.
This is a part of the Discworld series, featuring the Lancre witches and a family of Vampires. Magrat and Verence are getting married, and Verence invited the vampires to Lancre as a part of the celebrations. They begin taking control of people’s minds and as such the town itself.
This is the last Disworld book centred around the City Watch, although most of the story focuses on Vimes on holiday at the Ramkin’s estate in the countryside. There’s not much in the way of a holiday happening though as Vimes is dragged into a criminal conspiracy around the exploitation of goblins.
This is a story set in a future where antibiotics are no longer effective due to overuse. People over the age of seventy are refused healthcare and end up in hospitals called waiting rooms.
This is a cute indie game where you solve people’s problems by taking photos of things. It’s almost entirely in black and white, with a very charming art style. It features an overhead third-person perspective, 3D graphics, and a rotatable camera.
This is a game I got in a Humble Bundle. I hadn’t heard of it before and have just gotten around to playing it. It’s a story-focused puzzle platformer, there are a set of individual screens where you have to figure out how to get to the top right using a series of platforms. There are several different types of platforms that behave differently, from disappearing after you jump off of them to teleporting you to another with the same pattern.
I listened to this on Spotify. I started before he actually became Prime Minister, but just got around to finishing it now. On election night, I stayed up most of the night, going to bed as Labour hit the 326 total to become a majority and Jacob Rees-Mogg lost his seat.
This month’s pick for the Dystopian Novels Book Club. I’ve read it before, but so long ago that I’d forgotten most of the details. In it, a group of boys crash land on a deserted island and attempt to build a society with each person filling different roles. Throughout the course of the book, this all falls apart, descending into arguing, fighting, and eventually murder.
The eleventh book in the Discworld series. In this one, Death is removed from his duties and made mortal by the auditors for developing a personality. I think this is the first appearance of the auditors, literally faceless bureaucrats of the universe. This is also the story that introduces the Death of Rats, since living creatures start creating new mythological beings to replace the missing Death.
I finished the Pixel Remaster version of Final Fantasy III. This was the only single-player mainline game in the series that I hadn’t already completed.
This month’s pick for the Dystopian Novels book club. It’s just been released on paperback after winning the 2023 Booker Prize. It tells the story of a family in the Republic of Ireland living through the rise of a totalitarian government.
A pixel-art platform game where you’re climbing a mountain. You can boost once in the air, similar to a double jump but in a straight direction rather than another arc. You can also hold onto walls for a short time and jump away from them. The controls are absolutely perfect, and they need to be as the game gets very difficult as it goes on. When you die, you are respawned onto the same screen, and there is no lives system so you can try as many times as you like. This is great, as it means that you can really experiment and get used to the limits of your character.