Was meant to be attending a Christmas party last night, but our gathering caught the attention of omicron’s evil eye and the whole joint got cancelled. One of my friends who was visiting from far away had already bought his train ticket, so we decided to hang out regardless and went to the local barcade. Most of the machines were broken and the guy behind the bar watching RWBY on his iPad didn’t give a shit if Crazy Taxi was swallowing £1s, so most of our time was spent valiantly going up against this shit because the buttons weren’t crusted in dry beer.

Everything (except the art) in Simpsons Arcade kinda sucks - it’s a one-button beat em up with no context abilities, plenty of überjank hitboxes and the bosses do whatever the opposite of telegraphing attacks is, but I had a nice time because I was playing it with my pal and he was hitting me with a constant stream of Simpsons trivia. Did you know the final episode of The Simpsons was gonna reveal that Marge was an alien?! Wow!