Mark Hardisty
@hardistymark
Midwife to @gamesbritannia. Loves Elite and The Cannonball Run. 3 Education Awards. Author of The Classic Adventurer & the definitive Gremlin Graphics book.
The Classic Adventurer - Special Edition (2025) A bookazine dedicated to the golden era of text adventures. Featuring @rainbirdrich, Woodbury End, Larsoft, @sequentiasoft and more .... I hope you enjoy it. Download for free, or print-on-demand. classicadventurer.co.uk
💣 UK debt heading to wartime levels — but there’s no war… …except the one against the UK taxpayer. 📉 June borrowing: £20.7bn — 2nd highest ever (only behind the Covid crash) 📊 Debt-to-GDP creeping up — worse than during the 2008 financial crisis Labour promised…
✨The sci-fi adventure #EchoesOfTheFuture is now available for #CommanderX16! 📥 Just unzip, load, and… live the adventure! 🔗Download link in the next post. #RetroGaming #TextAdventure #InteractiveFiction #PunyInform #Infocom
We're still having a few visitors being given incorrect information from the event marshals at the event on the #Newark Showground - we are open as normal this weekend please follow these instructions: newarkairmuseum.org/on-the-radar/n…
It’s SATURDAY at Extra Life Gaming Lounge! All-day retro cartoons w/ classic ads 🎮 Massive game library (retro + modern) Homemade burgers, nachos & Jammy Dodger Strawberry Cheesecake Epic drinks incl. Thatchers Blood Orange 7PM: Members Night w/ quiz + new menu! Open 'til 10PM
Happy Saturday and #screenshotsaturday, 👋 Get ready to cross between worlds and possess the living to find out why Carolina is dead👻, and why she remembers the future. Wishlists on Steam ➡️ store.steampowered.com/app/2506100/Sh…
All set up and ready for @NottsVge here with @positrongame. Come play on PC, or Steam Deck. #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame
Britain: 1,000 years in the making. 31 years to destroy
Tony Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party 31 years ago today
Racetrack's built and we're ready (to get, set, go!) 🏎️🏁! Join us for our RumiCar workshop on Sunday, 27th July and learn how to control an autonomous vehicle. ow.ly/IFuo50WvkZ3 . #STEMEducation #CodingForKids #MuseumLearning
Here's my 2010 interview with Ozzy Osbourne youtu.be/no2N5qCK1X8
Ready to explore the horrors of the dungeon? Pre-order Roguecraft DX here: funstock.co.uk/collections/ev…
Tyrians towers has arrived from psytronik - beautiful packaging as always from Kenz #c64
And that's magic!
Not long until my new live tour begins! Don’t forget to bring your phones… 🎟️ petefirman.co.uk/live
*NEW* ZZAP! AMIGA #23arrives featuring the Demoscene Legends series celebrating Anarchy with special guests, plus big new games, and heaps more. patreon.com/c/zzapamiga/
Lets hope Gremlin Graphics and Sumo Digital are recognised. sheffield.gov.uk/news/2025/shef…
Hard to believe that this is only 5mins from Parliament Square! The Duck Keeper’s Lodge in St James Park was built in 1841. After bomb damage in WWII it was almost left derelict but thankfully it was saved, used as a storeroom, then carefully restored in 1982.
Monty on the Run ▪︎ Gremlin Graphics ▪︎ 1985 #C64 #Commodore
Ordered mine, Cannot wait for Christmas!!! #zxspectrum #spectrum #oldskoolcomputer ZX Spectrum Next Issue 3 by Henrique Olifiers — Kickstarter share.google/B7jHQ9k1KbKxVr…
Well said again, @Ruth_Deech
🔴 'Despite being proscribed as a terror group in the UK, the Government is risking presenting Hamas with the ultimate gift of statehood' | Writes Ruth Deech Read more ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/2…
How much the world has changed - 1950s 10 years after WW2 and UK had not a lot of money but we still had a huge Air Force - Enough planes to paint a few Black and perform Aerobatics - now we can't afford 9 x 40 year old Hawks - I was never a great fan of the two seat Hunter ..