Category: Gaming

Hot on the heals of the new series of Lost (2nd UK) an Alternate reality game (ARG) has been launched.

If you haven’t seen heard of ARG’s don’t worry, they often start with single piece of information known as a ‘rabbit hole’ (referencing Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll) which drags people into the game. In the case of the LOST Experience you are given a phone number to call, leading you to a website.

I’ll not bother to repeat content that has already been posted on countless other sites, but there are groups of people joining together to crack the puzzles and codes of ARGs, The lulls between clues can be fustrating and efforts to work on all possible information is theorised and debated on forums accross the world.

Armed with drink and snacks, Dok and I spend the evening looking up old games and listening to the dulcet tones of ZX Spectrum loading noises. We also found some classic samples of in-game music

Remember when games had a seperate cassette with music you could listen to while playing the game? Seems odd that now that modern games often have their soundtrack released seperately.

I can safely say that the Spectrum was the one item that changed my life, from the commands in BASIC, I wrote simple programs (aged 8-9), I think these would later place me in the frame of mind to become a programmer in the future.

My tribute to the ZX as you may have noticed is a loading image (it’s very small) in the top left-hand corner of this site. I’ve had it there since I themed the site.