Spanner Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

A Question of Manners

Videogames have been mired in controversy ever since their conception, providing an all-you-can-eat buffet of flavorless nourishment for the Thought Police to gorge ...

By Spanner Legacy AuthorMarch 7, 2006

Love the One You're With

The Digital Whorehouse

Blackpool, the most insalubrious working-class retreat in Britain, is probably best known for its sheer unabashed dedication to gratuitous pleasure seeking. There is ...

By Spanner Legacy AuthorFebruary 14, 2006

For Great Justice!

To Be The Hero

There is a picture of me in one of my mum’s meticulously dated photo albums wearing a Spider-Man mask on December 25th, 1980, ...

By Spanner Legacy AuthorJanuary 17, 2006

Generation G

Intergeneration Education

I’m sure Alex (my 13-year-old niece) and I (a tragic, 30-year-old video game expert/snob) are not the only ones to have bridged that ...

By Spanner Legacy AuthorNovember 22, 2005

Generation G

The Third Generation

My 13-year-old niece is a keen videogamer and for many years (while my rapidly maturing friends all took to playing golf instead of ...

By Spanner Legacy AuthorNovember 22, 2005

Import/Export

Console Clones

Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are ostentatiously dangling the carrot of seventh generation video game consoles, but how many more technologically advanced vegetables can ...

By Spanner Legacy AuthorOctober 25, 2005

Whatever Happened To...

Stories from the Back O’ The Arcade

No one needs an in depth retrospective of Mario Bros., Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter II. Even if you were part of the ...

By Spanner Legacy AuthorSeptember 27, 2005

Whatever Happened To...

The Back O’ The Arcade

Traditionally, in England, an arcade was the kind of place where delinquents could get out of their council flats for a few hours ...

By Spanner Legacy AuthorSeptember 27, 2005

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