Richard's Online Journal

Greetings and salutations. In case you were wondering, Richard Cobbett is a writer and journalist and producer of many other things involving words. He likes cats, hates spiders, and plays a lot of games. This is his website...

[14/12/07] Gamer Snap

For no particular reason, a few random grabs from my collection of weirdness, picked up for assorted articles over the last couple of years and saved for possible later use. In case you’re wondering, I use SmugMug as my online photo hold. I only mention it because it’s a great service if you’re looking for one to replace something like Flickr.

Sometimes, a picture says a thousand words. Or in this case: “Goddamn it, hire translators who know what English is! Aaaaargh!”

Cower before the greatest villain in all gaming - Lady Evil von Buckethead

From Caesar III - the greatest typo in manual history.

I promise. Totally.

Note to Tabula Rasa developers: When even your NPCs think your world sucks, you’ve got bigger problems than nerfing Spies..

Japanese dating sims in a nutshell. Brr.

And people think I made this game up…

The Discovery Channel presents… RoboHitler’s Downfall: The BJ Blaskowitz Story. Historical authenticity guaranteed!

Time for a game of Spot The Player Controlled Sim!

Fortean Times finally lucks into a Real Story

Pink sails. Ooh. Scary. (And yes, it’s an enemy ship.)

And in case it’s not obvious, we get the coolest toys in our office…

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Nice rug....

Posted by wcaypahwat on Saturday 15th December

Don’t be silly. It’s my real hair.

Posted by Richard on Saturday 15th December

In a very weird way, three of these pictures could go after each other to form a comic strip. Namely the three starting with the rape…

Is that wrong?

Posted by The_B on Saturday 15th December

Bert Higgens the Man From Hell is possibly th best game name ever.

Sadly I’m thinking the name is the only good thing about it.. would that be an accurate assumption?

Posted by Nick on Saturday 15th December

That’s one very, very odd comic strip…

Sadly I’m thinking the name is the only good thing about it.. would that be an accurate assumption?

Oh, Christ yes. It’s a terrible, terrible game.

Posted by Richard on Saturday 15th December

“the greatest typo in manual history”
Indeed - there should be a space before the “W”, which should be capitalised, and the question mark is missing. Classic.

Posted by icabod on Monday 17th December