Tally-Ho Corner – Page 37 – The new home of The Flare Path

January 23, 2025

Speed-date ravishing vintage pinball tables in Zaccaria Pinball

I’ve just discovered Zaccaria Pinball’s ‘story mode’ and I love it. Drawn back to Magic Pixel’s stunning sphere slapping sim by an unexpected announcement (yesterday, after a lull of over two years, the Hungarian devs released an update that included thirteen free ‘retro’ tables) I noticed a play option I’d not tried before. Would ‘story mode’ lace me into the battered sneakers of an awkward Seventies teenager bent on dethroning the thuggish local pinball wizard? I had to find out.

January 22, 2025

Platoon Commander prematurely pilloried

Pay no heed to curstking, Brumes Wolf, and GenXGamer, the three people who’ve Steam reviewed the Platoon Commander demo so far*. While this available-since-Monday trial currently has more rough edges than a gritstone rhombhectotriadiohedron, it’s also the closest thing to a 3D Close Combat I’ve played in a long while.

January 20, 2025

Apache Canyon is as early Eighties as Blake’s Seven and Bananarama

Me and the creator of Apache Canyon – a new game for the venerable Acorn Electron – have a few things in common. Not only are we Brits of a similar vintage, we’ve got the same surname and paternal grandparents.

January 20, 2025

Where am I?

Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.

January 17, 2025

Review dilemma: jazzy footwear or niche hardware?

A quick show of hands, please. I’ve decided that the first proper Friday feature of 2025 will be a review of one of my Christmas presents, but I can’t decide which present to assess. As Simon Bradley’s The Railways is out of the frame because I’ve not finished it yet, and my vocabulary and taste buds probably aren’t sophisticated enough to do justice to a bottle of Laphroaig single malt, the choice is between a striking pair of hand-knitted socks and an unusual sim peripheral. Which should I assay?

January 17, 2025

Friday Foxer #211

This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a dab hand at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not help out.

January 13, 2025

Where am I?

Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.

January 10, 2025

Friday Foxer #210

This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a dab hand at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not help out.