It is a somewhat perverse tradition in the UK that every couple of years Walkers crisps release weird flavours of crisps. A couple are usually alright, some are okay and the rest are usually foul. A few years back there were flavours like beans on toast, and egg and bacon. This year they are going …
Continue reading Walkers Sandwich flavour potato crisps! (chips)
Due to a variety of reasons (most of them boring) it has been a while since I last did a blog post. So I am going to do my best to rectify that now. I am guessing it would have been around 1999 and I had gone over to a friends house (we had been …
Not very long ago and not terribly far away, Star Wars wasn't the massive iconic juggernaut that it is today. You can visit any toy shop in this day and age and you'll probably find Star Wars toys somewhere on the shelves, even for upcoming Star Wars movies that aren't due out for months. But …
Continue reading Vintage Star Wars! The first 12 Kenner figures from 1978!
Sometimes when eating something, a flavour can take a while to really hit the taste buds. This occured recently when I just popped these into my mouth. Chilli nut M&M's. I don't think these are something really available in the UK. I half expected them to taste like the chilli coated peanuts we get over …
I wasn’t a very modern kid growing up. When my friends were all playing on their Super Nintendos or Sony PlayStations in the 90s, I was still playing on my Gameboy or my parents Amstrad computer. A lot of the titles for the Amstrad and other home computer systems of the time like the ZX …
Continue reading Video game Retrosp’egg’tive, The Dizzy Series!
I think everyone who played with Lego as a kid loved it. I was no exception to this. I remember my first sets I got that weren't just one of those buckets of bricks, one was a wizard tree house 'shop' and one was an ambulance so the wizard was always making trips to the …
Continue reading Star Wars Lego from 1999, 7110 Landspeeder!
I don't know if I had intentionally been putting it off quite, but after my relative bought me a scorpion lollipop, it was an inevitability that I was going to have to consume it at some point. This is the same relative that gifted me a garlic bread flavour stick of rock which you can …
There aren't many establishments that I have been (soberly) ejected from, but I distinctly remember that as a kid I was threatened of being kicked out of the local super market by a security guard. Why? Was it for stealing sweeties or some other heinous crime? No. I was opening the tops of the cardboard …
Continue reading Cereal box freebies! Nestle ‘Playstation Action Heroes’ toys from 2001!
I like to play retro games as they usually aren't quite so 'heavy' as modern games. They don't demand a huge amount of time or effort to be put into them. You could easily pop Super Mario Bros. on for an hour and a half and finish it. A lot of games from the 8 …
Continue reading Video game Retrospectives! The first three Metroid games. NES, Gameboy and SNES!
I used to think it was strange the things that kids from times gone by used to play with. Like hitting a hoop with a stick for example. What person thought, "Christmas is coming up, I want 20,000 sticks and hoops on shelves by September! Every kid is going to want Santa to bring one …
Continue reading Opening packets of alien Pogs from 1995, and Star Wars Tazos!
The Forgotten Starship 