About

Moi, gratuitous sepia-esque developer photo

As you might have guessed, Oddbob isn’t actually my real name. But for the sake of this site, it’ll do for now. I write retro remakes, write about retro remakes and run retro remakes. I’m rapidly becoming convinced that I may actually be a retro remake myself. You can find more about me and my tastes by clicking one of the following links or just read on after the links.

GGE Profile. | Moby Games | Last.FM | XBLA Gamertag: RR Oddbob

Doubtlessly as you’ve clicked on this page you probably want to know a bit about me, but I find all that terribly boring and disinteresting. Talking about myself on the blog is bad enough, and my life these days is pretty unremarkable so I won’t bore you with too many details.

At the time of writing, I’m over the hill and not too far off from 33. I live a peaceful and quiet~ish life in the middle of suburban hell with my good lady wife and a small child who has the affectionate nickname of C4 (because you never know when he’s going to go off). Last time I looked he was around the age of 4, but as time seems to disappear into a void, for all I know he could be 28.

I run a number of sites on the internet, primarily Retro Remakes - but also Retro Masters, Somewhere Beyond Cassette 50 and rather obviously Mersey Remakes. In what little time I get inbetween running these sites I also write a few games of my own. Sadly, these days, I don’t get nearly as much time to chip into development as I’d like so despite the best of intentions, they take a long time to appear. G-Force, a 2 week project has recently passed the 12 month mark. Go figure.

My most recent “quickfire” project, War Twat has been featured across the internet and has generally been incredibly well received. Whether people were just too darn terrified by the game to say otherwise, only time will tell.

When not doing any of the above, I write an irregular column for Way Of The Rodent on Indie games and have previously co-hosted The Arsecast with good pal DrDerekDoctors, contributed to Gibbage in a previous incarnation of the site and swore at a lot of celebrities and narrowly avoided punching a few as well. But that’s another story, and perhaps a tad too long to go into here. I haven’t been running internet sites all my life, you know.

For those too cheap to cough up for print magazines I’ve been featured in, you can find a nice online interview with me over at Gnomes Lair. But you read Gnomes Lair anyway, right? If not, now is the time to begin.

I like to swear. Some people believe its uncouth, neither big nor clever. But I call them “cunts”.

Writing games is a passion for me, and to the confusion of some folks I write them primarily for myself. It would take a long session of psychoanalysis to go into the reasons why, so I won’t.

Music is probably the second most important thing in my life next to my friends and family and consumes me, both in the listening and creation of.

I warned you this page wouldn’t be very exciting, but no - you wouldn’t listen. I just find it incredibly boring talking about myself in a “list of facts” kind of way. If you really want to find out more, stick around, read some stuff. Enjoy yourself and join in the dialogue.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and feel free to drop me a line with any comments, criticisms, pissing and whinging - just let it be known I’m the worlds biggest arse for not checking my mail or forgetting to reply.

Oddbob. (rf001g8432 HAT blueyonder.co.uk)

(replace the headwear with an at sign, obviously)

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