Monthly archive for August2015

Hip Hop Week – Straight Outta Compton Review

Hip Hop Week – Straight Outta Compton Review

Last post of Hip Hop Week here. If you’ve missed the previous entries you can check out the links at the bottom of this post. I’ve just come out of seeing Straight Outta Compton about 30mins ago, so this is pretty fresh in my mind….

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Hip Hop Week – Hip Hop in Other Media

Hip Hop Week – Hip Hop in Other Media

Day 4 of my Hip Hop Week. Check out the links at the bottom of this post if you haven’t read any of the previous posts. One of the things I love about Hip Hop is the culture associated with it. And by that I’m…

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Hip Hop Week – My Hip Hop Top Ten

Hip Hop Week – My Hip Hop Top Ten

Hip Hop Week continues. Welcome to Day 3. If you’ve read my previous posts this week you’ll be aware of my limited hip hop knowledge. That will probably be very clear in this post, where my Top Ten Hip Hop Songs are chosen from a…

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Hip Hop Week – My Run-DMC Top Ten

Hip Hop Week – My Run-DMC Top Ten

As I mentioned in yesterday’s first post of Hip Hop Week, I’ve always had a passion for Hip Hop and Rap but I know I have had some gaping holes in my knowledge. One of those holes has always been Run-DMC. I’ve known about the…

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Hip Hop Week – My Introduction to Rap

Hip Hop Week – My Introduction to Rap

It’s perhaps a bit of a departure from my normal retro topics but I wanted to focus on the subject of Hip Hop for a few posts. The main spur for this is my excitement for the upcoming NWA biopic ‘Straight Outta Compton’ which is…

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Play Margate 2015 Retrogaming Event

Play Margate 2015 Retrogaming Event

I had the pleasure yesterday of attending Play Margate, a gaming and retro-gaming event organised by @ReplayEvents. The event was a scaled down version of the bigger Play events in Blackpool and Manchester, but it still had a very good amount of games and things…

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Pixels is not a terrible movie

Pixels is not a terrible movie

It’s not a great movie but it’s not a terrible movie. It’s a brave statement I know, given all the hate that this movie has received from critics. But despite the fact that I am a massive retro gaming fan, and I’m really not a…

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What I Would Want in my Retro Man Crate

What I Would Want in my Retro Man Crate

I was recently asked by Man Crates to write a post about what I would want in my retro man crate. They’ve got some pretty cool gift ideas on their site and a retro one obviously caught my imagination. So here goes with my Top…

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