Welcome to the online home of Rob Fearon, disabled videogame maker, games journalist, crap film watcher, gobshite and doodler. Rob’s been around games a very, very long time now and Punching Robots Club is their personal blog featuring whatever nonsense takes their fancy.


I, Ball – drawn by Rob

Pity poor I, Ball, not only a largely forgotten character in the annals of videogame but who, for their second outing, became a being of purest chrome. Still, they looked pretty chonky and far from an executive toy so it could have been worse.

I have a fondness for Steinar Lund’s take on the character more, though both are pretty fine really. So that’s the one I went with when it came to doodling them, army fatigues, laser guns and helmet and all.

I, Ball at Spectrum Computing