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Playing games since ‘83 – slightly less boring than my day job. Just don’t get me started on Speedball II. You have been warned.

Tag: Cricket

  • Strategy games just ain’t cricket, but they probably should be

    I don’t play tabletop Warhammer, but whenever I walk past a Games Workshop retail store, I feel like I’m never more than a well-aimed fart away from blowing in there and blowing my money away. Not that it’s really my cup of tea mind, what with all the painting small figurines and general socialising with people who…

  • Fighting over Richie

    In case you’re not aware, cricket is a pretty big deal down here. Over the Aussie summer it takes over this rather large island nation, with every advertisement sporting crickets past and present spruiking any and every company’s products, every news bulletin seemingly topped and tailed with news of Michael Clarke’s hamstring or the latest…

  • It’s a statistic: No, baseball is absolutely nothing like cricket.

    Bats and Balls.  That’s where the similarities end. I grew up on a healthy diet of cricket. Sport is so entrenched in Australian culture that it’s kind of hard to escape, with backyard cricket an afternoon and family gathering staple, and television programming and ratings being quite literally dictated by what sports are on the…