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After a rather rainy start, the summer weather is finally arriving, and what better than a day out with portable gaming and a picnic? Especially if the picnic is in a gaming-related cooler bag, to boot! I have one of these myself, and they seem to be a perpetual fixture on the market, nowadays...
Today's post is a bit of a rarity, as it covers merchandise that is currently available!
This is Babbage Bear, a mascot of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a British charity dedicated to improving the teaching of computing and related subjects.
Babbage is a little honey-coloured bear with dense...
Following on from my entry about Crash Bandicoot, yesterday, here's Crash's sister, the computer geek, Coco Bandicoot.
Unlike Crash, Coco here is a beanbag plush made for the US market. These became available in the UK in the early summer of 1999. It was still a time when game-related plushes...
This one's an old favourite of mine, and the poor guy looks a little worn nowadays!
I got Crash Bandicoot, here, from a local game shop almost sixteen years ago - back in the days before importing was marginalised, and before British game shops were homogenised.
He's a Japanese plush, made...
For anyone above a certain age who is even remotely interested in electronic gaming of any sort, there has always been a certain allure to the idea of owning a real live arcade cabinet. Some were lucky enough to be able to obtain real cabinets for very little, if any, money from arcades that...
Since 1990 i love emulators on Amiga and Workbench more.
In age by age i experimented c64 on amiga or pc emulators on amiga for arrive to the best emulator ever made Shapeshifter and after the great Fusion 68k 3.2
I will start from today share my emulators experiments from the beginning to...
Diddy Kong has always been my favourite of the Kong clan - he's faster, nimbler, and all around more fun to watch and play as than Donkey Kong is, for me.
As with so many of my other merchandise write-ups here, I always wanted one of these when I was a youngster, but I had to be patient...
As well as collecting computer and video game-related plushes, I'm also a fan of cute and practical merchandise, articles of which most often seem to be released as prize items exclusive to Japanese arcades. This piece, featuring K.K. Slider, the singing dog from Nintendo's Animal Crossing...
I always wanted Worms plushes when I was a youngster. I was absolutely hooked on the Game Boy version back in 1996, and never went anywhere without it (even though it was actually possible for the computer players to knock you out of a match early on, leaving you watching them duking it out for...
This entry is extra-special. I finally had the time to get some good photographs of my official Ecco the Dolphin plush, which to the best of my knowledge is one of the most obscure pieces in my collection.
I briefly looked but couldn't find any other mentions of these online, so consider this a...
I'm posting about a lesser-known official item, this time.
This is a beanie-plush of Jazz Jackrabbit, made to promote the Macintosh port of Jazz Jackrabbit 2. Initially they were only available when ordering the game directly from the porting house responsible for it, but they were later sold...
I was always surprised that, for all its popularity, Taito's arcade game, The NewZealand Story, wasn't merchandised more.
When I was a youngster, my grandmother made me a knitted version of the game's protagonist, Tiki the Kiwi. Unfortunately he was lost many years ago. However, I was thrilled...
Hi all
I know I'm new here and I'm not chocked full of useful information or own a roy_bates sized collection, but I do have a passion, a love of old school machines and gaming, and old school coding too. I'm only really starting a blog because I think the new site's facility to blog is so easy...
Mappy, by Namco, is one of those arcade games that's sadly not as well-remembered as it deserves to be (or, indeed, as other games of its era are). It was based on modified Super Pac-Man hardware, and is an unusual platformer where Mappy, a mouse who is a member of the "Micro Police", has to...
I make plush toys, and will soon begin taking commissions online. However, one thing I won't make is plushes of characters who already have officially-released toys available.
Two characters often requested of me are Bub and Bob, the Bubble Dragons from Bubble Bobble, and whilst these two have...
Ever since the big AmiBay update that added the blog feature, I've wondered whether there was anything that I could use it for. Then it occurred to me that, since I like to collect video game merchandise, I could use it to write about that.
I'm starting off by showing off my collection of...
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Lemmings by SFX - The CD version of the Lemmings 2 promotional single, by SFX. SFX were composed of people more famously associated with The KLF, who were best known for the song Justified & Ancient (Stand by the JAMS), featuring Tammy Wynette. This song is very much in the same vein as...
Games (Continued)
Award Winners Platinum Edition (MS-DOS CD-ROM Version) - CD-ROM version of a compilation for MS-DOS containing Civilisation, Frontier, and Lemmings. The included CD version of Lemmings has no music because Empire Interactive managed to leave it out!
Xmas Lemmings (MS-DOS) -...
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I thought I'd test out the new Blog feature of Amibay sharing one of the articles from my Blog - www.fitzstevesamigaworld.co.uk
I’ve been hooked on Computers and Video Games for years, but where did it all start? Well my first Console was an Atari 2600, probably circa 1985. Hooked up to...