About Benway and Benway's World
....Me,
....more me,
My name's Steve, I'm 40, and live in Worksop, in Nottinghamshire, having left Milton Keynes in '05 to live with my wife, Andrea.
.... even more me.
About Benway
Among other things, in my spare time, I'm a musician, artist and writer.
You can find my tunes, pictures and writing on the websites down there in the "Benway's Empire" section.
You can also hear my Launchcast radio station, view one of my several webcams, and check out what websites I've been looking at, via those links.
Favourite Music
Afro Celts, Air, Tori Amos, Bauhaus, Belly, Big Country, David Bowie, BT, Kate Bush, Can, Nick Cave, Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, The Cure, The Damned, Dead Can Dance, Death Cab For Cutie, Depeche Mode, Dirty Three, The Fall, Four Tet, Front 242, Garbage, Peter Gabriel, Lisa Gerrard, Goldfrapp, Kristin Hersh, Joy Division, Laibach, Led Zeppelin, Leftfield, Love and Rockets, Low, Mazzy Star, Minotaur Shock, Moby, Molotov Elysian, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Gary Numan, Pixies, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Simple Minds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters Of Mercy, Sonic Youth, Swans, Sugarcubes, Talk Talk, This Mortal Coil, Throwing Muses, Tones On Tail, U2, Underworld, Velvet Underground, Yeah Yeah Yeahs... and a lot LOT more besides.
Favourite Movies
Bladerunner. LOTR. The Good The Bad And The Ugly, The Matrix, What
Dreams May Come, It's A Wonderful Life, A Matter Of Life And Death,
Gone With The Wind, Bringing Out The Dead, Day Of The Dead, Fear And
Loathing In Las Vegas, Naked Lunch, anything by Davids Lynch and
Cronenberg, Quentin Tarantino or John Woo.
Just a few out of a *huge* collection.
Favourite Authors
Isac Asimov, Iain Banks, Greg Bear, William Burroughs, William Gibson,
Harry Harrison, Robert Heinlein, Ursula LeGuin, Julian May, David
Zindell, plus assorted non-fiction history, psychology, and biography
books.
Favourite TV
Invader Zim, Robot Chicken, South Park, Futurama, F1 Grand Prix racing,
Top Gear, Two Pints Of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Twin Peaks, Wild
Palms, Big Brother.
Fave Games
Half life 2 (PC), Far Cry (PC), Elder Scrolls: Oblivion (PC), Doom & Doom 3 (PC), Gran Turismo 1, 2, 3, & 4 (Playstation 1 & 2), Black (PS2),
Shadow Of The Colossus (PS2), Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2), Crazy Taxi (Dreamcast), Nights Into Dreams (Sega Saturn),
Manx TT Superbike (Sega Saturn), Sonic The Hedgehog 1 & 2 (Megadrive), Hard Drivin' (Megadrive), Mario Kart (SNES, GBA, N64, GC),
Starfox (SNES), Test Drive Unlimited (PSP), Donkey Kong (ColecoVision), Pitfall (Atari 2600), Jetpack (ZX Spectrum) 3D Monster Maze (ZX81)
Elite (Acorn Electron), Starship Command (Acorn Electron), Atari's Star Wars Arcade (Amiga), Frontier: Elite 2 (Amiga),
Geoff Crammond's Formula One Grand Prix (Amiga), Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker (Amiga), Knights Of The Sky (Amiga),
Tempest 2000 (Atari Jaguar), Red Alarm (Virtual Boy), Need For Speed (3DO), Defender (Arcade), Galaxian (Arcade), Battlezone (Arcade)
About Benway's World
So why this new website, when I already have those others?
It's mostly down to the webhosts I use for those other sites. They're tied in with a couple of dialup ISP's that I used, and I'm
unable to upload to them without actually being connected to them via the dialup accounts.
Now that mostly isn't a problem, but it made using blogger with them impossible, so I built my weblog using a tripod account.
Later, I put
together a photo gallery on Angelfire, as the bandwidth requirements would have pushed me over my monthly allowance on my main sites.
So, after a time I got fed up with all the popups and banners littering those sites, as they annoyed viewers/readers, and didn't benefit me in any way.
Time to take the blog and gallery, and put them together with some new projects, and pull them all together on one site.
Contact Benway
I can be emailed at benway68@hotmail.com
I do try to reply to emails, but do not respond to the following :
1. Any unsolicted sales message.
2. Unsolicited link requests.
3. Offers to sell or buy old consoles or computers.
4. Requests regarding the value of, or where to sell, vintage consoles/computers, or games. Such questions regarding hardware are already answered on my Price Guide page. If your system isn't listed, then I am no wiser than you at this time. I do not track the value of games.
I don't use MSN, Yahoo, or any other form of messenger program, as I find the constant bombardment of messages from complete strangers very annoying, so please don't ask. If you'd like to chat with me live, check out my webcam and chatroom page.
Like everyone else online, I have profiles all over the net, so for the sake of completeness, here are some of mine.
Fact is, there's not much you can learn from them that isn't here already, but they all feature links to this site, so linking to them 'should' help google spot them and hence take a little more notice of this site.
Benway on MySpace
Benway as a musician on MySpace
Benway on StumbleUpon
Benway on Stickam
Benway on Last.fm
Benway on Yahoo 360
Benway on Flickr
Benway on QJnet Forums
Benway on YouTube
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