This ‘Roland’ person, also a flea and a rat(?) in later outings, takes on the role of Indiana Jones in an attempt to raid the tombs of Tooticarmoon [sic]. Will he succeed? Well, with me as his guide, he has absolutely no chance. Might still be fun to watch this video, though.

From October 2008.

Download this video: FLV

Freddy Flintoff clones mourn the passing of Retro Yakking

It is with great sadness that I announce the closure of Retro Yakking, a project that has brought so much pleasure to so few with its acerbic wit and jokes pinched from QI. Little did I know when I began typing randomly at my keyboard in late 2008 that the place would still be attracting loads of visitors per day, even in its current vegetative state.

“But Yak,” I hear you cry, “Retro Yakking is still there, viewable for all to see on the interwebs!” Well, this much is true. But since my access rights to the blog have been revoked, and blogdog are currently not renewing old accounts, it’s highly unlikely any more content will appear there.

Yes, Retro Yakking shall remain merely as an archive of past glories, but there is no future for the site at blogdog.com. Since I have much less free time to dedicate to humour writing these days, it’s doubtful the site would have seen much activity anyway, even if blogdog rose like a Phoenix from the ashes of numerous dead bloggers left in the wake of today.com.

It was fun while it lasted, but this chapter in the tale of Harry Yack has now ended. Very slowly and quietly. David Gerard, you had it right all along, my friend.

A Nutri Grain for you if you cared enough to even read this.

Right, time to catch up with some of the game reviews I’ve been producing and/or uploading of late.

This particular video was recorded when I had time to load up my Mega Drive again, but evidently not enough to play through the game. Thank goodness for cheating, or should I say the Internet, from which I pinched a simple final level code. Yup, I lost the little bit of paper I wrote passwords on – you know, the one you always put in the box with the manual.

From the second half of last year — couldn’t tell you when exactly, but it explains the ’2009′ note at the end of the video for you.

Commentary is a bit cardboard, so forgive me for that. In fact, don’t: call me a rip-off hack with no skills or talent whatsoever.

I wonder if copyright messages are themselves copyrighted? Let’s conduct an experiment.

Here’s a video consisting entirely of legal warnings from the likes of VVL and the VHS Video Collection. Who will be the first, if any, to get the video removed? Find out right here, soon. Or not, depending on how many people actually care enough to watch the thing.

Might be interesting, could be boring. Let’s see how things transpire.

Not that I have anything against VHS as a medium, in fact regular readers of Harry Yack will recall he has something of soft spot for it, or at least he prefers it to DVD. But it’s always fun to watch stuff being destroyed, and anyone who denies this fact is a big fat liar.

In actuality, this video’s supposed to be a semi-serious test of how durable the humble cassette tape is. More of the same is on the way, with a bit of luck. As to what form these future experiments will take, I’m not quite sure at this point. Perhaps a ‘ten reasons why VHS is better than DVD’? Suppose it depends on how much time am able to devote to it over the coming weeks.