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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 03/10/2026

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't to stop and think about whether they should"

A terrible DLSS5 Touch up of doom, featuring a really weird haircut for doom guy and a strangely angular gun

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 05/07/2026

Keep your "Souls-like"s this fucker right here is completely impossible.

A small child's game. The play field is a forest scene. The child uses four red buttons at the bottom to flick a round nut between different forrest animals and out of a hole at the top.

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 25/06/2026

Channeling my inner Skitarii so hopefully one day I can become one with the air conditioner.

A red-and blacked robe Skitarii warrior from the Videogame Darktide.

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 20/06/2026

Cricket going badly, you say? NOT IN THE WORLD OF STREET CRICKET IT'S NOT.

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 04/06/2026

When buying a new Graphics Cat, always remember to get the OC variant.

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 24/05/2026

It has been 30 degrees in the UK, so once again we are forced to ponder whether...

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 07/05/2026

Can't believe you left off the greatest one of all time!

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 30/04/2026

Today's fun, go to put some washing away. Pick up one of the kid's shirt. Somewhere, a low buzz appears...someone is leaf blowing? I fold it and put it in her pile...now the leaf blower is angry and coming from her pile on the bed? Then this arsehole crawls out...

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 03/04/2026

A very good evening to everyone. Apart from Stage 6.

An almost perfect scoreboard at the end of Star Fox, apart from stage 6 which shows 96%

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 15/03/2026

No one's going to believe this Mother's Day Present isn't really for me 😭

The Deluxe Switch 2 Edition of Resident Evil Requiem, featuring a close up of a silver revolver and type which is a bit to small tbh

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 27/01/2026

Just sharing our daughter's drawing of Angela from Silent Hill 2 because I told her I would and because i'm super proud of how much effort she's putting into her art work. 😀

A hand-drawn black and white version of Angela contemplating the knife in Silent Hill 2.

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 01/01/2026

Hey I think I just identified the secret traitor! #TheTraitors

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 31/12/2025

I think mid-90s me would be very upset that the world has largely moved on from custom mouse cursors.

A folder containing a bountify supply of animated windows cursors.

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 31/12/2025

It was very considerate of '90s games developers to include 'Extras' folders in the data files that contain all of the artwork you need for a custom Steam entry.

A custom Steam entry, using a high(er) resolution image of the Space Hulk: Vengence of The Blood Angels cover art - A red Blood Angels Space Marine terminator with a Genestealer perched above his head.

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 31/10/2025

Pfft. Why should the kids have all the fun? #halloween

A bad Halloween costume of the derpy King Ghidorah meme

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 03/10/2025

On the one hand, my train home is screwed and I'll be lucky if I'm just an hour late. On the other, I have an excuse to go on the tram.

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 27/09/2025

Quick little Speccy chiptune work in progress! (No, You've been listening to a lot of New Order recently)

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 26/09/2025

"Just popping out to get a couple of pints of milk and some bread"

A nice red wheel barrow stacked full o' mullah

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 09/09/2025

Maybe not on a marketing level, but Sega vs the Nes was definitely a thing, as per this Sega Power article which was published a year before the Snes (also, note that the Sega mag records the Nes making up around 40% of UK console sales for the period)

A Sega Power article from May 1991, showcasing that Sega outsold Nintendo in Europe by about a million units.

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 09/09/2025

There's definitely truth that it wasn't necessarily THE battle, but we can see from the first Mean Machines (which was a subsection of C&VG rather than its own mag) that Sega vs Nintendo was most definitely a thing, even before the consoles launches.

A screengrab of the first edition of Mean Machines from C&VG (Oct 1987.) The passage contains numerous comparisons between sega and nintendo machines - “Sega as you may already know i rate very highly. In fact, I used to think that the Nintendo machine had no chance against it. Well things have changed.”

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 08/09/2025

Bloody hell, where did Monday go? jist enough time for some Transformers-themed Uno before the youngest's bed time

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 01/09/2025

Back from a long weekend! Have some of Watermouth Castle's classic British pin games

one of the original Crompton Coin pushers - Double Falls. The design disnt change much tbh

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 15/08/2025

Should probably get round to playing Left 4 Dead at some point. oops.

My first 5 steam purchases from 2013, including Race 07, Left 4 Dead, FTL and two copies of Xpand Rally (one gifted, i'm not an idiot)

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 13/07/2025

i'm a proud parent today 😀

Tiny Hands painting a grey base of a gold liberator miniature.

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 26/06/2025

Hey! The current Fortnite map has a ZZT arcade machine.

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 26/04/2025

Despite forgetting to tell you half the rules, the Funko Godzilla game is pretty good when you get into it

Mini Godzilla and Ghidorah face each other on a hexagonal cardboard cityscape

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 26/04/2025

Just lost a high-stakes game of Happy Little Dinosaurs :(

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 10/03/2025

If Amstrad had stuck with their original plan of switching to the Sinclair brand for all consumer-facing products, the Mega PC would have been a Sinclair-branded Megadrive.

A text-heavy advert for the Mega PC. The cream computer is against a cream background making it hard to see the screen. The computer monitor is split between the sonic the Hedgehog title screen and some business software.

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 05/03/2025

I think it depends on where you look. If you went into a pub and the band playing were dressed like the 2007-era Kaiser Chiefs, I don't think you'd think them as weird or outdated as someone in typical 1989 getup would have looked then. (Meanwhile, our 8 y/o has no concept of broadcast TV)

The Kaiser Chiefs, in typical sort of semi-retro getup (including Ricky Wilson in a shirt and waist jacket) for the Ruby music video

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 09/02/2025

The Xbox 360 turns twenty this year! let's get ahead of the inevitable nostalgia wave and look back at one of the console's best racing titles: Import Tuner Challenge shorturl.at/zKJjh #retrogaming #Genki

A bright red car dashboard with green gauges that have orange needles. We're looking out onto metal crash barriers on a concrete expressway.

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 21/01/2025

Pretty sure I used the illegal job board in Elite II

A blue screen with an intense looking fellow against a black background on the left. And four bulleted job options on the right. The top option is a thinly-veiled assassination disguised as a 'removal'

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year everyone! Time for the inevitable diet, because my tshirts are getting tight and I'm feeling a little like Godzilla here

Sepia menuscreen from the PS3 version of Godzilla, with the big guy roaring into the sky, surrounded by collapsed buildings. Caption reads 'Godzilla Grows Large enough to wipe out human civilization', which is how i'm feeling tbh

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 29/12/2024

As you're a captive audience in the post-Christmas deadzone, here's an article about a slightly-confected arcade rivalry: medium.fatnickindustries.com/trains-vs-zo... #sega #arcade #taito #denshadego

A Street fight two fight card (black screen, large yellow and red versus text) featuring the Densha De Go and House of The Dead arcade cabinets

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 24/12/2024

After many months, Duolingo is finally showing me pertinent dialogue.

A Duolingo lesson teaching me to say "expensive cheesecake"

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 11/12/2024

Want to know how pinball bumpers work but also unsure of the height of former American Football player Michael 'Pinball' Clemons? This trustworthy and very-real website has you covered!

Articles from very-real and non-ai generated site "The Pinball Spot." Includes 4 pinball-related articles and one about Canadian-American Football Player Mike "Pinball" Clemons. For bonus points, African American Clemons is represented by an ai-generated image of a generic white American Football player.

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 29/11/2024

You can say many things against the PS2, but the lack of eclectic budget games isn't one of them.

A helicopter approaches a giant bikini-clad woman.

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 17/11/2024

After..well...chilling over night in the fridge it actually turned out pretty well!

Our focaccia loaf on a cooling rack, looking pretty darn good!

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 16/11/2024

Seven Year old and I are making Focaccia. This will not end well

Focaccia dough, stretched covers and resting under cling film on a white counter top

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 11/11/2024

23 in the world on the System Shock 1-ball challenge? I'll take that! #Pinball

The grey Pinball M endgame screen, showing a score of 5,822,445 - enough to take me up to 23 in the world!

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 05/11/2024

I grew up on these Streets.

A screenshot from Batman: The Movie on the Spectrum featuring a monochrome Gotham Street scene with a Batmobile driving down a congested street.

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 03/11/2024

It took about 32 years, but I finally got here. Wait, what do you mean I have to go again!? #zxspectrum #retrogaming

The victory screen from Rambo 2 on the zx spectrum. The screen is black with two green trees at the bottom and a green helicopter. Message on top reads Congratulations! You have completed your mission but more lies await rescue so now you must return!!

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 26/10/2024

one for the #retrogaming team here: It practically killed the franchise...but is Deus Ex Invisible War it as bad as history says it is? fatnickindustries.com/Blog/2024/10...

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FatNicK @fatnickindustries.com · 20/10/2024

Looking out of the window, today is clearly a day where it is appropriate to build Lego cameras:

A front 3/4 shot of a DSLR Camera on a wooden table. The camera is made entirely out of Lego.

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