∞ Vince ∞

Hello folks! I love my PS4. But it is sorely lacking in platformers. On my PS3 I had a few. I love Jak and Daxter type things. Any recommends? TIA

I really hope that is true. I know he has another account though as I stumbled on it the other day, it was something to do with his RetrOriginals ebay account.

What do you mean by, reviewing his own book? It DOES sound like him, but surely he hasn't done his own legs?

You are right of course. Expect his YT to re-emerge in a couple of days.

The beautiful thing for me, is. I am not on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram or other Anti-Social media site... When he inevitably starts to slag me off personally, people will know I am not there to defend his BS. If he wants a chat IRL I am happy to knock him spark out speak to him cordially.

A lot of people in retro circles are on the spectrum. I know I exhibit some of the key behaviours, but to use a disability as a shield for all criticism is wrong, for one thing and for a second he just doesn't have autism. I do suspect he has some kind of personality disorder though. A lot of people with Aspergers are very direct (others not, there is a whole spectrum) and in some instances brutally honest. Kizza's behaviour goes way beyond that. He is just offensive for the sake of it which is whole different kettle of fish.

How on earth will you cope, Shaggy. The whole point of groups is for free discourse like here, not a dick-tatorship where if you are not licking the boots of the admin you get kicked out. I've just thought of a new nickname for kieren, "Kizza the Jizza". If you're wondering, "Jizz" means ejaculate in the UK.

Goes far deeper, deepthaw. The guy well at first I liked him. But he's one of these people that has more faces than a rubix cube. Goes out of his way to hack everyone off. Claims to be a journalist which is the funniest thing I ever heard. The guy is a fool to himself. He loves the drama. Claims to have autism when he doesn't. Just a cover for his behaviour.

Yeah, I mean, it is all very good being contrary when you are right or have a point but swinging random bullshit just to hack people off is another thing. For example I maintain that the c64 version of Ikari Warriors (John Twiddy/UK version) is the best home conversion. A lot of people think the Amstrad port. But although people might not agree with me or my opinion that Meet Joe Black is a classic brilliant movie at least my views have validity. Just saying 'I can't stand Zelda and Mario' is just shit-string. Because half the gaming world loves one or the other. NB: Not really got into Zelda due to the depth. I do like it what I've played. Mario I love esp Super Mario World and M64. Personally I feel if you play computer, video, arcade games and you can't find anything in either Zelda or Mario then I really don't know what you would be into ?

Yep. With Kizza you're basically in the UK McDonald's position where when they cook chips (fries), they have a large fryer and every few minutes they pour in more chips. Every time they do this they put in a ton of salt, and when you are unfortunate enough to get the chips that have lay at the bottom for an hour and not been scooped you effectively end up with more salt than chip. That is how you should approach anything laughingboy says.

Also, you are entirely correct. You review the game by describing any background to the game, then the story or gameplay and if it is a port or conversion you then compare the flaws or lack thereof compared to other versions. Usually making reference to the machine it originated on be it an Arcade or a C64 or whatever. That is how it is done. The reason he fails to do any of this is because contrary to what he puts- Is he: A not a journalist B not good at games C lazy as F. Or all 3 !

PitFighter was and is shit, digitised sprites or no. Bloody rubbish controls, and now the gfx look dated as F. In the UK the original computer mags were staffed not by journalists but by kids literally 16, 17 18 year olds who were really really good gamers. That's where they were recruited from, the arcades. This sometimes lead to unfair reviews where they were far better gamers than the general readership, but on the other hand, you want people who know what they are doing, as they could play through to later stages and such long before they started giving journalists cheats which became the norm. PitFighter was crap on every system. That's no speculation, that my friend is fact. Another example of his goading behaviour.

Yeah Roger Dean was a legendary cover art artist and synonymous for many of us with Psygnosis's output. Of course this is a perfect example of what I put just above where Kizza makes a mental connection in his own mind and then throws out his assumption as 'Fact' when it is no such thing. Of course a lot of ripping off of artwork did happen in the gaming industry- usually over at Ocean 🕵️‍♀️ where in the eighties Bob Wakelin was suffering from a bad case of the Roy " Lichtensteins".

Hmmmm. HKM. I've long suspected US Gold gave incentives for good reviews. I know that quality was not high on the agenda especially for ports where a lot of money was paid for licences then they had 4-6 weeks in some cases to pump out 'anything' and let the PR girls to go out drinking with the guys from the mags. I even once joked about a US Gold game I think it was that I 'hoped the reviewer enjoyed his BJ/holiday' he got for a gushing review. When it comes to H.K.M, I don't think it was ROTR territory. For one thing every mag had 6-8 page previews for months up to the release. I can still remember clear in my mind C&VGs cover. Every mag the game was to come out on had so so much coverage. It was a technical breakthrough using high end rendering machines to produce superb graphics (for the time). The problem was when it was crushed down to the 16 bits it became the equivalent of a Live Action Movie that had been 'translated' by a five year old with a sketch pad and a bumper pack of crayons. It also played like a dead dog. HKM looked pretty good. I'm sure it got a fair bit of promotion. The aforementioned Danielle was shit hot at promotion. But there is no way you can compare the two. No way. The problem with Kizza is, he seems to make these mental connections himself and then wholeheartedly embraces his own speculations as PURE FACT then relays them as such and in doing so shoots his own credibility to shit.

I saw someone pointed out in one review that he had copy pasted the introduction from another of his 'books' in the one reviewed which said it 'wasn't a definitive A-Z of SYSTEMB' when in fact the 'book' was for SYSTEMA. Does he even know what Physics are ? I would think Max Payne etc not basic maths in platform games. He is obsessed with Atari but as I say it's all very dubious and most of us know more than he does.

Very nice Ste! I'd put ❤️ rather than 'like' but there isn't that option. Ps, it's Vince from Lemon64.

Do you have a tape deck ? I've got a few you could have for postage.

@Shaggy the Atarian Well that sort of sums him up to a tea, mate. So you put forth a pretty good argument for something 'The 64 was better than the Amstrad CPC at racing games' Oh no, now you've upset him. He would then tell you Burning Rubber is better than ANYTHING the 64 had, better than Outrun Europa, Chase HQ 2, Lotus, Turbocharge, Power Drift. Despite the fact 95% of games for the 464 were crappy ports of Speccy games in a mini window. He once told me Pitfighter was an all time classic. I mean personally not only were the ports iffy as, the Coin-Op was rotten. The thing is, whatever you say, he says the opposite. He does this to try to demonstrate his supposed superior knowledge over you. He made such a thing of Ninja Spirit (a great game) and how good he was at it that I sat down for THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE - I'd never got round to playing the excellent version on the 64 (I have now) - and I got straight through to the second level. He couldn't get over it. When he had played it, he got killed pretty quick and I soon sussed he was no gamer in the sense he was not very good at games. This was at a retro event. Back before I knew he was a dick.

I know I am going off topic slightly here, but I have to say 'Sam's Journey' what a tremendous game! It's like they outdid Alex Kidd or something. The colours, the silky smooth eight way scrolling, the costume changes that make the game play differently. It's a bloody masterpiece and I've got my digital but I haven't got round to my Cart order yet. I think I am going to bite the bullet and order it today. One of those games that had it came out in say 1991, people would have still been buying the 64 in droves. Especially had it been bundled with it.

Apologies, I stand corrected.

Yeah, this was glaring to me. At events he would slag the mighty 64 off all day, but then he pumps out cut and paste 'A-Z's of all the systems he hated! I once said how good the Game Gear was and he went on a long one about the Lynx. I like the Lynx but pointing out the better range of titles on the GG set him off to no end.

I first me him in 2011? I think at a Retro Event and we all went for a curry. He seemed alright, pretty chilled and we all had a really good time and a laugh. But since then all kinds has happened and he's blanked me since. More and more comes out seems like on a daily basis. He's a fool to himself.

I don't think that is a true statement. I think from everything I have heard you need REU for NTSC.

All retro stuff, mainly Atari (he is obsessed), then he widened to other systems he knew even less about. Long time abuser of forums and actively goes out of his way to torment and put nasty comments on anyone's YTs / Does a fine line in dubious reviews of books he didn't 'write'. I say write the guy couldn't be called a journalist he even bullied the editor of a uk mag, Retro Gamer into using his stuff. Most of his 'facts' turn out to be inventions of his own imagination. He's been banned here numerous times and elsewhere. Or he 'reviews' books by other people and gives them a right slate. Most of his videos are him talking about how much he knows. You know trying to tell the world that he knows everything. He claims to know everything Atari but he really doesn't. His 'Laird's Lair' thing comes from the fact he claims Scottish ancestry and Laird is a archaic Scottish word meaning 'Lord' which says everything about his ego.

Indeed it is, yes.