Hi there! I’m Matthew, for a living I operate various moulding presses that form rubberised gaskets for the gas and oil industry as well as speaker diaphragms for clients in other bespoke fields. I’m married to René (The Boss – aka Red Midget). Princess Leia is our dog and Zinnia-Kitty and Mary Belle are our two cats.

Gaming has always been my escape, when my day job has been totally #$@&%! I can come home and take a shotgun to an Imps face or teach a noob the fine art of dying by grenade, and on occasion have it recorded, so I can create some stupid video that draws a total of 15 views on YouTube – see below!

 

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Random Gaming Facts

Did you know? The first console to use cartridges was the Fairchild Channel F, which was released in 1976.

The Fairchild Channel F, short for “Channel Fun” was a video game console, the first to be based on a microprocessor and to use ROM cartridges instead of having games built-in. It was released by Fairchild Camera and Instrument in November 1976 across North America at a retail price of US $169.95 (equivalent to $926.89 in 2024). It was launched as the Video Entertainment System, but when Atari released its Video Computer System the next year, Fairchild rebranded their machine as Channel F while keeping the Video Entertainment System descriptor.

The Fairchild Channel F achieved only about 350,000 units before Fairchild sold the technology to Zircon International in 1979, trailing well behind the VCS. The system was discontinued in 1983

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