I'm a real fan of Adult Swim, the cult US series of programmes responsible for shows such as Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Harvey Birdman. But one of their best shows is Robot Chicken, a series utilising animation with action man type figures. Last night I caught this beauty and was delighted to find it on youtube and share it with you. They take the Commodore 64 classic game Spy Hunter and turn it into a news report, great stuff...(needs sound)
I hope not - I feel privileged to have been born in the 1970s and so gone through the various stages of computer games that only someone of my generation could go through. From the earliest incarnations of Pong, to the puzzlement of ET on the Atari, onwards to Defender on the Atari 400, then the wonder of the Commodore 64. I unashamedly fall into the Commodore side in the old Commodore vs Spectrum debate, but that's only because that is what I unwrapped one Christmas.
Although the cartridge game International Football was possibly the most played on that system (mostly because it was two-player and like most kids, I had to 'share' the system with an older brother) it iwas the game Impossible Mission that really grasped my imagination. An underground lair, a megalomaniac professor, I was truly world leader pretend. And the speech, wow, the sound of digitised speech when you loaded that gameup, will stay with me forever. So please join in my first toast to a truly splendid game, watch the clip, the player kindly obliges by falling down a gap as well......superb....
