Mandrake 🐴 @Mandrake@chitter.xyz

Hello everyone! My name's Mandrake and I'm a horse! I've been on Mastodon since November 2017 and have been a member of this lovely instance since December 2020. I hope we can become friends! ❤️🐴

I enjoy playing indie games in my spare time and I have a collection of my favourites that you can find on Itch, with a short review for each one. There's also links to additional collections for every game I've played on Itch by year: https://itch.io/c/1036648/my-favourites
#introduction #reintroduction

Feel free to print out and send this postcard that I made to your friends

Within the next decade, there will be an entire film where the lead character is portrayed by an actor who died years ago

One of the games I've been playing from this World Land Trust Itch bundle is A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build. It's a Sokoban where you push balls of snow around to build snowmen. Each one has a unique name and appearance, plus you can hug them: https://draknek.itch.io/a-good-snowman

Managed to obtain this huge collection of vintage software from the 1990s yesterday. I'll see if I can get some of these CD-ROMs running in my XP virtual machine (perhaps even in Windows 98)

The one funny thing that David Baddiel has ever done was BBC Three's Monkey Dust, where he played a conceited version of himself who was prepared to handle any emergency situation (e.g. rescuing a child trapped underneath a car, piloting a space shuttle) on the basis that since he was A Famous Celebrity, he therefore would be just as capable as any trained professional.

Itch are doing a 66-game charity bundle for the World Land Trust, with a starting price of $4.99. I personally recommend reky, Hacknet, Signs of the Sojourner, and Spring Falls, but I've also heard praise for The Hex, Wide Ocean Big Jacket, and Silicon Dreams: https://itch.io/b/1164/world-land-trust-bundle

Here's some BBC One continuity announcements from November 2015 that I had saved on a DVD recorder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWKWlwKEobg

Originally, I included all the trailers as well, except that BBC Studios blocked the video worldwide and I had to remove them (because *heaven forbid* anyone watches an advertisement for something that was broadcast on the BBC)

Here's the final batch of Challenge adverts/continuity from 2016 that I salvaged from the DVD recorder. Next up, I'll be uploading BBC continuity and then festive adverts closer to Christmas: https://youtu.be/NzXNy5CxW2s

According to these adverts from Challenge, the average Robot Wars fan in 2016 has a dog, drinks tea, looks unreasonably fabulous at all times: https://youtu.be/LrR-O-TvxtY

If you like dogs, hair products, and the bloke who played Rory's Dad in Doctor Who, these advert breaks from April 2016 are for you (maybe): https://youtu.be/FGgnslj66HA

Here's another batch of awful adverts and continuity from Challenge in April 2016. Put cosmetics on your face, drink some tea, and remember when people cared about Game of Thrones! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDUA1GKwyEY

I tried watching some of the original Gamesmaster for comparison and to be honest, I actually preferred the reboot. I'll confess that I have zero nostalgia for this show and the episodes I saw were from early on (Series 1). But the reboot felt much less awkward, had more interesting reviews than some white guys talking in monotone voices, and it captured the enthusiasm of friends playing video games together and trying to complete difficult challenges

Finally got round to watching the new Gamesmaster, lots of fun. Great energy, good selection of featured games, and Sir Trevor McDonald is a brilliant choice for Moore's successor