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Ray Hardgrit
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Plays old games, watches sci-fi shows, takes screenshots and writes underneath them.
New Super Adventures!

I'm still looking for Dungeons & Dragons games to write about, this time in the years 1986 and 1987. There's got to be at least one of them in there, surely:

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Dungeons & Dragons Games Vol. 3: 1984-1987 - Britannia Gnomes and the Tower of Doom - Part 2
modern and retro video game articles, commentaries, reviews, whatever you want to call them. I take screenshots and write words under them.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
New Super Adventures!

I decided to try to play all the Dungeons & Dragons video games released between 1984 and 1987, and you can read how that went:

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Dungeons & Dragons Games Vol. 2: 1984-1987 - Britannia Gnomes and the Tower of Doom - Part 1
modern and retro video game articles, commentaries, reviews, whatever you want to call them. I take screenshots and write words under them.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Super Adventures update:

Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown (Demo)
WarCraft: Orcs & Humans
And the first two Dungeons & Dragons games!

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November 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
New Sci-Fi Adventures Doctor Who review!

I've reviewed all the Ncuti Gatwa episodes so now I need to write about his era to get closure. Did I like the show's switch to fantasy or did I rant about it for 1000s of words? Check the review to find out!!

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Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor Era (2023-2025)
Reviews, analysis and stuff. Basically I take fuzzy DVD screencaps of science fiction movies and episodes and write a lot of words under them.
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July 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
New Sci-Fi Adventures Doctor Who retro review!

I've finished reviewing all the Christopher Eccleston episodes now so it seemed like a good idea to write a bit about series 1 overall and reveal if the farting aliens won me over in the end:

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Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Era (2005)
Reviews, analysis and stuff. Basically I take fuzzy DVD screencaps of science fiction movies and episodes and write a lot of words under them.
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July 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
New Sci-Fi Adventures Doctor Who retro review!

Rose is taking the day off and the Doctor's busy untangling cables, so it's up to the supporting cast to fight off the bad guys and sort out the TARDIS in the series 1 finale The Parting of the Ways!

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Doctor Who (2005) 1-13: The Parting of the Ways
Reviews, analysis and stuff. Basically I take fuzzy DVD screencaps of science fiction movies and episodes and write a lot of words under them.
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June 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
New Doctor Who Retro Review!

The three heroes face near impossible tests. Rose has to answer questions... correctly, the Doctor has to... sit down, and Jack has to resist taking his pants off in public, in Bad Wolf:

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Doctor Who (2005) 1-12: Bad Wolf
Reviews, analysis and stuff. Basically I take fuzzy DVD screencaps of science fiction movies and episodes and write a lot of words under them.
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June 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
New Sci-Fi Adventures Doctor Who Review!

The Doctor and Belinda aren't quite the only people who can save the world, so he decides to lock her inside a box to be safe, in the season 2 finale The Reality War:

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Doctor Who (2023) 2-08: The Reality War - Part 1
Reviews, analysis and stuff. Basically I take fuzzy DVD screencaps of science fiction movies and episodes and write a lot of words under them.
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June 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
New Sci-Fi Adventures Doctor Who retro review!

The Empty Child is stalking the streets of London, zombies are infesting a hospital and we need the Doctor. Unfortunately he's busy doing something else and you'd never guess what, in The Doctor Dances:

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Doctor Who (2005) 1-10: The Doctor Dances
Reviews, analysis and stuff. Basically I take fuzzy DVD screencaps of science fiction movies and episodes and write a lot of words under them.
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May 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
New Sci-Fi Adventures Doctor Who review!

Everything changes on May 24th. But it's May 23rd right now, so the Doctor and Belinda spend the day just getting on with other stuff, in Wish World:

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Doctor Who (2023) 2-07: Wish World
Reviews, analysis and stuff. Basically I take fuzzy DVD screencaps of science fiction movies and episodes and write a lot of words under them.
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May 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
New Sci-Fi Adventures Doctor Who review!

Belinda is hyped for Eurovision in space, but the Doctor's pulled elsewhere in The Interstellar Song Contest!

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Doctor Who (2023) 2-06: The Interstellar Song Contest
Reviews, analysis and stuff. Basically I take fuzzy DVD screencaps of science fiction movies and episodes and write a lot of words under them.
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May 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
New Sci-Fi Adventures Doctor Who review!

The Doctor's visit to a barbershop for a trim backfires horribly in The Story & the Engine:

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Doctor Who (2023) 2-05: The Story & the Engine
Reviews, analysis and stuff. Basically I take fuzzy DVD screencaps of science fiction movies and episodes and write a lot of words under them.
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May 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
New Sci-Fi Adventures Doctor Who Review!

Conrad meets a girl with stories of the Doctor and the blue box he saw as a kid, but they've left her with PTSD. Is she seeing clues that the monsters are back or should he bring her to reality, in Lucky Day:

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Doctor Who (2023) 2-04: Lucky Day
Reviews, analysis and stuff. Basically I take fuzzy DVD screencaps of science fiction movies and episodes and write a lot of words under them.
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May 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
New Sci-Fi Adventures Doctor Who review Dalek double-bill!

The 9th Doctor finds a Dalek being tortured by a billionaire in Dalek, and the 12th Doctor takes a trip inside a Dalek's casing in Into the Dalek:

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Doctor Who (2005) 1-06: Dalek
Reviews, analysis and stuff. Basically I take fuzzy DVD screencaps of science fiction movies and episodes and write a lot of words under them.
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May 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New Sci-Fi Adventures Doctor Who review! Season 2, episode 3: The Well.

When communications are lost with a colony, the Doctor arrives at the site with a unit of marines to investigate.

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Doctor Who (2023) 2-03: The Well
Reviews, analysis and stuff. Basically I take fuzzy DVD screencaps of science fiction movies and episodes and write a lot of words under them.
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April 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
New Super Adventures!

I returned to Return to Monkey Island on a mission to get myself a ship and a crew! Or, failing that, an eyepatch and a mop. I've been struggling.

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Return to Monkey Island (PC) - Part 2
modern and retro video game articles, commentaries, reviews, whatever you want to call them. I take screenshots and write words under them.
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April 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
New Sci-Fi Adventures Doctor Who review!

The Doctor, Rose and Harriet Jones are trapped while unconvincing puppet aliens with zips on their head threaten the world. Only terrible website security can save them, in Aliens of London Part 2: World War III.

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Doctor Who (2005) 1-05: World War Three
Reviews, analysis and stuff. Basically I take fuzzy DVD screencaps of science fiction movies and episodes and write a lot of words under them.
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April 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
New Sci-Fi Adventure Doctor Who review!

The Doctor and Belinda risk a coffee before taking on a singing, dancing force of evil in Lux:

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Doctor Who (2023) 2-02: Lux
Reviews, analysis and stuff. Basically I take fuzzy DVD screencaps of science fiction movies and episodes and write a lot of words under them.
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April 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
New Super Adventures!

Pirate legend Guybrush Threepwood needs to acquire a ship and a crew to get off Mêlée Island and find the Secret of Monkey Island... again. It's Return to Monkey Island (part 1):

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Return to Monkey Island (PC) - Part 1
modern and retro video game articles, commentaries, reviews, whatever you want to call them. I take screenshots and write words under them.
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April 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
New Sci-Fi Adventures review!

Rose Tyler returns home to discover that she's been out a little later than she realised. Also aliens are invading. It's Doctor Who, series 1, episode 4, Aliens of London:

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Doctor Who (2005) 1-04: Aliens of London
Reviews, analysis and stuff. Basically I take fuzzy DVD screencaps of science fiction movies and episodes and write a lot of words under them.
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April 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
New Sci-Fi Adventures review!

Belinda Chandra boldly goes where everybody knows her name in Doctor Who season 2 episode 1: The Robot Revolution:

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Doctor Who (2023) 2-01: The Robot Revolution
Reviews, analysis and stuff. Basically I take fuzzy DVD screencaps of science fiction movies and episodes and write a lot of words under them.
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April 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
New Super Adventures!

I carried on playing Diablo IV for a bit longer and ended up with a cave full of monsters and loot, so if you want to read about how that went here's a link for you:

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Diablo IV (PC) - Part 2
modern and retro video game articles, commentaries, reviews, whatever you want to call them. I take screenshots and write words under them.
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April 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
New Sci-Fi Adventures review!

It's Doctor Who episode The Unquiet Dead's 20th birthday and that seemed like a good excuse to write a bit about it:

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Doctor Who (2005) 1-03: The Unquiet Dead (Quick Review)
Reviews, analysis and stuff. Basically I take fuzzy DVD screencaps of science fiction movies and episodes and write a lot of words under them.
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April 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
New Super Adventures!

Once again evil was unleashed upon the world... but ignoring all the microtransactions, did I find the first hour or so of Diablo 4 to be any fun?

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Diablo IV (PC) - Part 1
modern and retro video game articles, commentaries, reviews, whatever you want to call them. I take screenshots and write words under them.
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April 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New Super Adventures!

I took on a quest to visit all the giant rat infested RPG cellars, basements, storerooms, larders and sometimes attics I could find in order to pin down where this trope even comes from.

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Super Adventures in Rat-Infested RPG Cellars
modern and retro video game articles, commentaries, reviews, whatever you want to call them. I take screenshots and write words under them.
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April 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM