Rob’s Terrible Tomb Of Tat

…and you will know me by the typing of the dead.

  • Flippy The Laserdisc Turtle

    …or when I take passing toots far too seriously.

    I am not really a LaserDisc person! Largely the extent of my LaserDisc experience was during the mid to late nineties when a then *ahem* close friend *ahem* had a relatively small collection of films stashed away on the things. Well. One of their family did anyway. Mainly, we watched cartoons like the grown ups we were but I still remember them showing me both Broken Arrow and Desperado across a couple of afternoons and well, that’s about as far as my LaserDisc experience really went — yet they were very much the right films at the right time and so, I still remember watching them with a fondness (and a genuine surprise at the size of the discs). And y’know, I still fucking love them.

    However, I am also incredibly easily led and love cute mascots! And with apologies because I forgot to keep the specific toot archived anywhere so I forget who was directly responsible here, when someone mentioned people should draw more art of Flippy The Laserdisc Turtle, I couldn’t help but agree. Plus, I was incredibly bored that afternoon.

    Aaaaand that’s how we end up here with two drawings of Flippy. The second one for the age old Rob reason that it made me laugh thinking about it and after that, there was no going back really.

  • The Making Of Boiling Point (Jank)

    Jank have a small Making Of Boiling Point up, which is a bit of a treat.

    Players flew in helicopters and planes, it’s true – but they marvelled, too, at the flying jaguars. These airborne cats became a running joke after Deep Shadows published the patch notes of its first update, which included the line: “fixed: jaguar floats across screen at treetop level”.

    Great stuff and I highly encourage everyone to read the article whilst listening to the theme to Boiling Point, which remains one of the greatest videogame songs ever. Just don’t try and make too much sense of the lyrics, okay. This is Boiling Point and it wouldn’t work if it all worked.

  • Robot Monster (Comic Strip)

    Robot Monster is one of my favourite films to chill out to and this is one of the scenes in the film I love the most. I took a few liberties in giving The Great One and Ro-Man a bit of a spookier appearance but I didn’t want to shift too far from the pretty much perfect space helmet and gorilla suit of the film. I mean, mainly because it’s brilliant.

    Like a lot of the more notorious films that get caught up in some sort of nerd-hell induced “worst film ever” canon, it’s mainly just kind of a nice, fairly entertaining and most definitely harmless watch. I would sooner Robot Monster than anything in the entire Christopher Nolan catalogue, right? Give me the space helmets and bubbles any day.

    For reasons I won’t go into now, I find Robot Monster pairs exceptionally well with Doctor Who And The Sontaran Experiment. Both only take an hour each to watch too and, well, you don’t want to know how many times I’ve crammed a double bill in but it is genuinely a lot.