Supa Retron HD from Hyperkin - Unboxing and Mini-Review!

Anyone curious about Hyperkin's Supa Retron HD console may want to check out this vid, join Tom as he unboxes and tries out the console for himself.

The Supa Retron HD is one of many Super Nintendo 'Clone' systems that endeavour to produce the same gameplay experience as you remember from the original console through using original cartridges and clone hardware.

The Supa Retron HD even outputs in HD so your old games can look as good as possible on your fancy new HD screens, as the name suggests ;)

MATTEL DreamToys 2018 Christmas Showcase | Barbie Ultimate Kitchen, Harry Potter & more!

Blast Process was fortunate enough to be invited to DreamToys 2018 - Yay!

The DreamToys list is the most authoritative independent prediction of toys that will be sought after for this Christmas.

Many toys and games were nominated by the panel and Mattel made into the top 10. So keep watching and celebrate your Christmas with a Barbie!

Funko DreamToys 2018 Christmas Showcase | Fortnite exclusives, Harry Potter, Wreck-it Ralph & more!

Blast Process was fortunate enough to be invited to DreamToys 2018 - Yay!

The DreamToys list is the most authoritative independent prediction of toys that will be sought after for this Christmas.

Many toys and games were nominated by the panel and Funko made it as a stocking filler that many children would want.

So keep watching and make your Christmas go with a POP!

LEGO DreamToys 2018 Christmas Showcase | Harry Potter, Jurassic World, Lego City Arctic Expedition

Blast Process was fortunate enough to be invited to DreamToys 2018 - Yay!

The DreamToys list is the most authoritative independent prediction of toys that will be sought after for this Christmas.

Lego unsurprisingly has made the list.

So keep watching and you'll get to see Marius Lang, UK Head of Marketing at Lego, give Brian (our man on the ground) a guided tour of the Lego display.

So sit back and enjoy the bricks!

TMA 202 – Hard Hitting News

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On a long over due TMA cast, the boys discuss HARD HITTING NEWS. What news? Well, Sony pulling out of E3, The Playstation Classic and other things long not cared about… They’ve also been playing Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu – Which would have been pretty relevant, if Mat hadn’t forgotten to post this podcast…

Listen here.

Halloween Special 2011 - Mortal Kombat / A Nightmare on Elm Street Redux

It's that time of the year again! Halloween is upon us, to celebrate we've resurrected a classic Halloween Special Blast Process episode from 2011.

This episode was originally created to celebrate the inclusion of Freddy Krueger in 2011's 'Mortal Kombat'.

Dave's busy enjoying the latest game in everyone's favourite fighting gore-fest, when Tom joins him to try out the latest DLC. As Tom goes to sleep that night, the game lingers in his mind as he's visited by a familiar face...

BETWEEN THE STARS - Prologue Demo - STEAM REVIEW (PC)

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A REVIEW BY IAN CHANDLER

Between the Stars is a Kickstarter game which has just received full funding and is due for release in Q1 2019 by Isolated Games. They have released a long playable demo called Prologue which is what I'll be reviewing here. BTS is a single player spaceship action game with management elements and is the latest in a long line of games of this type, going way back to Elite in the 8-bit era.

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You play a starship captain of the Interstellar Republic as you hop about the galaxy in a variety ships, shooting space pirates, managing your crew and carrying out various missions along the way. The graphics are pretty but being as it's space there's often not a lot to look at. The music is well done too and I didn't notice it repeating even though it did. Voice work on the whole is good and the ships handle pretty well. There's no controller support (at least on this demo) but it doesn't take long to get used to the basics.

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The missions follow the basic routine of flying where you need to go, maybe shooting a few enemy ships, then docking at your objective. Once you arrive the game turns into a text adventure, with a dialogue box giving a description, ie "You have entered a large room, do you want to go left or right" and the choices available are listed below. This was a bit strange at first and I wondered if I had flown through a time warp to the 1980s. There's not even any spoken dialogue, it is strictly old school. Once you finish the mini adventure section (which usually only takes a couple of minutes) you are back flying about again.

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The downside to this is there can be long periods of just getting from A to B which although you can use 'turbo' engines to get there a bit quicker, it can drag the pace of the game down a bit.

The space combat is quite fun, and there looks to be a large amount of star systems to explore, upgrades to ships and general Elite-ing about available in the main game when it gets released.

Whilst it is difficult to review an early demo, and of course the main game could be very different, the demo itself is worth downloading if like space-em-ups and have a fancy to relive Level 9-style text adventuring.

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Oh, an important thing to note, you can't save your progress in this demo, so be sure you want to quit when you do!

-Ian

PROS    Lots of gameplay for a demo, good presentation

CONS    Can get repetitive, long periods without action, no Save Game

 

4/5

You can find more out about the game at the official Isolated Games website:

http://www.isolatedgames.com/

Ian Kennedy at The Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2018

On a very wet Saturday Neil attended the Lakes Comic Art Festival and after watching the 'Flying High - Meet the Kennedys' drawing demonstration caught up with Ian Kennedy at the Scottish Comics Bothy. A very popular and crowded location.

The comic courses mentioned by Ian are in association with the University of Dundee;

https://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/comics/ https://www.dundee.ac.uk/study/pg/com...

See some of Ian's work here;

https://www.comicartfans.com/searchre...

TMA 200 – The Big Two Hundred!

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It’s time for the 200th episode of Tom & Mat Attack! The boys talk Star Link, Moon Walker and Super Mario Wii U!  Beyond that, the boys reflect on the 200 podcasts- 5 years of nattering about games! Things get a bit real, but here’s to 200 more!

Listen here.