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25/11/2014

So. You know. Here we all are then with this Digitiser 2000 blog, which seems to be going down like a miniature horse at a Brony-fest. It's genuinely, and sincerely, touching.

Some time back we had a vague, half-lubed, notion of doing something new with the Digitiser characters and name. Basically, we still remember writing Digi with an almost lewd level of fondness, and enjoyed it too much to contemplate never doing a thing with it again. Like a stubborn crab, it has been quite difficult to shake off.

Alas, due to the awful reality of having day jobs, we can't really justify doing - let's say - some sort of ridiculous Digitiser Annual, or whatever, unless we know there is still a big enough audience out there to raise a couple of quid through something like Kickstarter. Whatever that is.

We dunno. We don't expect to return after all this time, and have people laying down palm fronds in our path. We're all too aware that it's a big ask - trying to stoke interest in a 21 year-old video games magazine, which finished over 10 years ago, and appeared on a now defunct medium. Plus, this sort-of-return is still in its infancy. We're not about to start "shilling" our wares, only to suffer the ghastly public humiliation of nobody being interested. At least, not yet. If ever. We'll see.

Leave a comment or let us know via the contact page if it's something you'd be interested in. If not a book - then what? It could be good. It could be smooth. And for the foreseeable future, please rest assured that brand new stuff is going keep appearing here.

Anyhow. Enough of this tentative, undignified, fishing. In the unlikely event that some of you have failed to notice it, there's a very lovely archive of Digitiser pages here: here. Regrettably, there are big chunks missing, but the presence of our favourite ever Pant-Oh - David Belt & The 7 Dwarves - almost makes up for that.

Also: fake adverts (which are all labelled "Not a real advert" as our editors were worried that people might actually go out and attempt to buy a Roaming Thomas). Here be three of them:

71 Comments

PhilWal

25/11/2014 01:30:34 pm

Comment expressing interest in new Digit Tizer finger-drink product. -me-do! CRAB UP MY WALLET.

Mr Biffo

26/11/2014 01:57:16 am

Tell me this: what crowd-funding incentives would you like? Ie; a portrait done in Digi-Vision? Appearing in a Man Diary adventure?

Senor Flippy Flop

25/11/2014 01:59:34 pm

I'd absolutely love some sort of book archiving all the old stuff, or at least the best of the older stuff with new stuff thrown in. The loss of the old Moleman site that had pretty much everything has been very annoying and a physical anthology of Digi jokes and characters that aren't hostage to the unreliability of digital would be fantastic.

Given the length of time Digitiser ran and how fondly it's still remembered I think some sort of fundraiser would work well. It's not like you'd be trying to get a statue of NAM ROOD put up in Cheltenham

26/11/2014 01:59:29 am

Sadly, a book archiving old stuff isn't going to be possible - beyond what's already archived online. All of it is lost to time. So it would have to be mostly new Digi-stuff. We'd make it feel authentic, mind.

You'd hope it would work well wouldn't you? But we honestly have no real sense of whether there's a big enough audience still out there. We're still feeling our way with it all.

hicklespickle link

18/6/2016 10:59:15 pm

Here is a link on Issuu to pdf files of old digitiser pages,although you have to register for a free Issuu account in order to be able to download them. Once you have an account you can download them by clicking the share button and then download. https://issuu.com/search?q=digitiser.

drunkndandy

25/11/2014 02:17:27 pm

a zombie dave figurine with 10 voice-o catchphrases please.

unfunnyname

25/11/2014 05:01:50 pm

I cannot think of anything clever to write. I would be interested in a greatest hits annual.

I'd also be keen on more video game thoughts/reviews, and I don't even play them anymore. You've somehow already got me coming to check this blog every day..

lilock

26/11/2014 12:01:04 am

I would literally sell you a kidney for a Digitiser annual. Not necessarily one of my own you understand, probably one from the butchers, but a kidney nonetheless. You could make a superb stew. I like stew!

26/11/2014 01:12:58 am

Thanking muchly for the comments so far (they don't have to be "clever", Unfunnyname - indeed, it's slightly more helpful if they're not). Your support remains appreciated.

(required)

26/11/2014 01:42:07 am

More of this sort of thing. And a Kickstarter for Biffovision.

26/11/2014 01:51:11 am

That would be the best thing ever. And our ultimate fantasy. Unfortunately, Biffovision never really went as viral as we'd hoped. Scranton-K got about 10,000 views on PooTube before being taken down, and the rest of the pilot was only viewed about 7,000 times. Albeit by people with excellent taste. So, I'm not sure there's the demand out there.

AlmightyCasual link

26/11/2014 02:08:33 am

With a view to you making a bit of cash I would pay an agreeable fee for a nice, hardback gathering of all the best bits of Digitiser.

HARDBACK GATHERING.

Digitiser means a lot to a small, sentimental flock of gentle nerds, so being able to somehow engulf a small piece of it would be good.

HARDBACK GATHERING.

I'd like you to penetrate this hypothetical 'book' with some re-reviews of the biggest games from the last 20 years too, maybe even side-by-side with your original takes? Seems like it might be easy to write as well. Money for nothing!

That would even work for this blog! A bloke above doesn't even play games anymore, so he'd love that I'm sure.

And if he wouldn't, I'll gladly meet him in a car-park of his choice (within a 5 mile radius unless he agrees to give me petrol money) and kick his ignorant, misshapen head in for making me look stupid on the internet.

HARDBACK GATHERING.

26/11/2014 02:14:31 am

Yes, alas, any "Hardback Gathering" of Digi's best bits is going to be spotty at best - apart from what's saved online, there's literally nothing left. It all got swallowed up by Teletext's servers.

The re-reviews of games from the last 20 years is interesting, though. We weren't sure how much of a balance people would want between the stupid stuff, and stuff that's stupid-but-informative. So... ta for that suggestion.

26/11/2014 03:48:45 am

Seconding the idea of reviewing stuff from the last 20 years, covering Stuff Wot Digi Missed in its Absence.

And if there isn't a complete archive then at least some of your favourite bits (of whatever you can find) would make a nice thing in a book, mixed in with original content.

I'd also like to see printed versions of the Bubblegun cartoons in there...

As for crowd funding rewards, I'd suggest things such as:

- signed copies
- limited editions (hardback, slipcovers, leather bound, bound with human skin etc)
- backer credits in the book
- Biffo and Hairs come to your house and kick over your bins

dan de la peche

26/11/2014 02:30:49 am

I, as often happens in my life, have nothing funny to say, but: Yeah, do a book or something. I loved Digitiser (I actually wrote to Mr. Biffo on Facebook years ago saying thanks), and more from you guys is good. I'm not rich though, so don't go mental. I bet if you publicised it well enough, there's loads of embittered, maladjusted 30-somethings with nostalgic cravings. You guys did The Real Turner The Worm Being Sick, I will give you a tenner for that any time you like.

26/11/2014 02:54:20 am

This is probably a shit suggestion, and you may be sick of it, but it might be nice in a book to have the insider stuff on why Digitiser stopped (including all the web spinoffs) etc. There must be some stuff that hasn't been all over the internet, and even if there isn't, it'd still fit well in a book.

26/11/2014 03:02:05 am

No, not a shit suggestion, La Peche. We did talk about whether to include a sort of history of Digi in whatever we do. It'd be a challenge, though: Alas, Mr Hairs' memory is even worse than mine, and I don't think either of us really want, or need, to engage in any muck-raking. The fact is, there was no real scandal or story as to why it ended - At the time, I just wanted to stop doing it, basically.

26/11/2014 02:59:25 am

Digi was always a bit cheap and cheerful, so I can't imagine we'd go nuts with it. We'll try to keep it affordable, whatever we end up doing.

Koworld link

26/11/2014 03:03:05 am

Dear Mr Biffo

a) bloody brilliant to see you back
b) I honestly believe you could bang in a Kickstarter for wank sock you'd drawn on and us lot would snap it up
c) please don't do b)
d) Completely understand why it would be hard to get old material into a new book but really, it was your characters and your writing-style that people loved so deeply - new material in-the-style of would surely wash it's face on the Kickstarters
e) As is ever required: ignore the internet bellends and do what you'll love and that might cover two months mortgage

Best of luck,
Richard

PS Did I put enough stamps on?

26/11/2014 03:51:19 am

Oh! You could probably monetise this blog if you wanted. Google Ads (tho prob have to request that people whitelist it on their ad blockers), donate button, some kind of merchandise.

OnePunchMickey

26/11/2014 04:14:36 am

Firstly, Digi kept me sane circa 1990, post-college, pre-emigration, stuck in a rural backwater 39 miles from any towns. It was the one thing every day I looked forward too.

So going forward I would drag my balls through broken glass to hear it fart through a walkie-talkie.

James Dooby

26/11/2014 04:18:04 am

Love digitiser, would pay. Suggestion: http://www.patreon.com/ .

Paul C link

28/11/2014 07:03:09 am

I braved the comment section to make precisely this suggestion.

I've gone off the Kickstarter crowdfunding model of putting a lump sum towards a one-off campaign (which may or may not actually take the cash depending on its success), but quite like setting aside a couple of quid a month long-term for a site or person whose work I appreciate.

I'd prefer the return of a long-term Digitser project over a single coffee table book - although obviously will take whatever I can actually get.

TrevorCod

26/11/2014 04:19:05 am

I'm just happy that this blog exists. It's appearance has coincided almost exactly with a resurgence in my interest in and time for games and it's added to a general sense of gaming euphoria for me.
I've never kickstarted anything in my life but I'd consider it for this. If you do a book of any kind it must have acetate overlays with blanked out blocks that can be peeled back to simulate the old joy/trepidation of pressing 'reveal' in the old days.

Chris link

26/11/2014 04:50:05 am

You can get things that change colour when you warm them up with your thumb (like what you get on mugs with pictures of scantily-clad girlies which *ahem* reveal their "naughty bits" when you fill them up with cheap gin.. erm, I mean hot coffee, got confused for a minute). I'm sure I've seen those in paper form in the past so would work as reveal-o-panels in a hypothetical Digi book, unless they work out prohibitively expensive. I'm sure there are other plausible methods too.

As for the book, yes please! Especially if all pages are entirely rendered as authetic (but perhaps oversized) teletext pages. New stuff in the old style would be perfect, maybe the odd favourite thrown in from the archives where available.

If you don't do this: I cuss you bad.

26/11/2014 04:56:08 am

Thanks for all this, chaps. It's really useful. I guess I've been holding back from thinking too hard about monetising the blog, or wanting to be too overtly capitalist about the whole book/whatever thing, in case it came across as a bit on the distasteful side.

Or worse - obscured the fact we'd be doing it primarily for love. And because we know others share that love, we want to get people involved early. It just feels weird to be asking them to put their hands in their pockets.

But... if raising a few quid meant we could really focus our attention on making whatever it becomes really, really great, and giving people something they want, then I probably should try and get over that hump.

26/11/2014 05:14:21 am

I'm always a bit sketched-out by the idea of paying to access a blog or what have you, in that I usually just don't bother. I am however always happy to pay for something physical. I don't suppose for a second that I speak for everyone though.

And what Koworld said up there was about right, it's not old stuff that matters, it's the characters/tone of the thing that made it what it was. Probably wouldn't have to mention games at all. Although it does seem like the industry's reaching peak idiocy at the moment. You should do DLC reviews. Insincere Dave needs to do them.

26/11/2014 05:26:05 am

Worry ye not, La Peche. We'd never charge for this place. I wouldn't bother paying for it either.

26/11/2014 04:57:10 am

Also - to whoever suggested a book of Bubblegun cartoons, that has come up in conversation. It's tricky though - they're really, really low resolution, and I no longer have the original artwork. They'd probably need to be redrawn, which is going to be time consuming.

26/11/2014 05:36:07 am

Sounds like a job for cheap Chinese labour.

(seriously though there are sites where you can pay people to do stuff like this for a small fee per task - Amazon's Mechanical Turk springs to mind).

26/11/2014 06:12:14 am

I will look this up. Thanking.

BarringtonD

27/11/2014 08:12:59 am

The "bollocks to lettuce!" image is still one of my favourite things ever.

Deexan

26/11/2014 07:04:31 am

I would absolutely be willing to plump up the green for some tangible Digi guff.

Would it be crazy to suggest a weekly/monthly online mag in much the same vein as the original Digi, to which we could subscribe? Games obviously not needing to be the focus this time around, though as a gamer I'd like to see a bit of it in there.

Similar to the Popbitch model, for instance, with your blog being the equivalent of their free e-newsletter.

26/11/2014 08:49:54 am

Deexan - Interesting on the weekly/monthly online mag. Definitely food for thought. It's a bit chicken and egg in that we'd need to know we could afford to do it. It's frustrating - because the love and the intent is there to do more, but it's balancing that with the need to pay the bills. This has all been really useful so far though, peeps. Really appreciated. Keep it coming.

NEG

26/11/2014 10:25:55 am

I'm thankful for any updates in the usual Digitiser style, infrequent or otherwise. It's good to see it back, not sure how I've survived this long without it.
I don't care for books or magazines honestly (nice to have but not quite the point of Digitiser, to me at least), but I'd certainly support keeping it going in whatever way it's decided to. THAT MEANS I'LL GIVE YOU MONEY.

Good to have you back doing this stuff-me-doo, Mr B. :)

26/11/2014 11:58:29 am

Thanks, NEG. And duly noted about the book/magazine thing.

Tetsujin is was my name back then but it isn't now but never mind link

26/11/2014 12:11:05 pm

I would buy Digitiser-branded hair gel. I have no hair.

Translation: I'd financially support pretty much anything you decided to "put" "out" because those are some very fond memories and what better way to re-fondle them than by being part of a thing where you make something and I give you money for one of it?

I'm afraid I'm no good at specific suggestions, though ;_; moc-moc-a-moc

glyn

26/11/2014 01:39:04 pm

Anythings a bonus but a website with regular updates, even if it's only weekly or monthly, would be nice. I'm not sure if adverts make enough money though.
I didn't even read digitiser originally, I read gamecentral and heard about it then read the archive at super page 58 and got into it's not just long time readers here. Hopefully some more find this site.

26/11/2014 01:54:19 pm

Thanks for that, Tetsujin. Really, really good of you. Thank you for the support. And Glyn - very glad to have you onboard.

LewisQ

26/11/2014 02:25:42 pm

Hello Mr. Buffo. I wonder if the very ephemerality you allude to above might be a selling point. We live on a planet where every intangible cultural thing is now archived forever (the name of the planet? Planet Internet.Com).

Even pre-digital content seems to exist somewhere, with unseen footage from Metropolis and deleted episodes of Doctor Who turning up in silos beneath the Atacama desert.

When you think about its relative popularity and recentness, it's quite remarkably that ~90% of Digitiser has simply diffused into the ether, never to be seen again.

My suggestion: use this transience as a starting point for a quirky documentary on a vibrant and influential pre-internet subculture that flew under the radar. A digi-style fanciful account of Digitiser's history, laced with sketches, narrated (unreliably) in Biffo-speak, gradually departing from any semblance of reality as it goes along (with The Man's Daddy, Zombie Dave, Thom Yorke etc featuring as talking heads).

26/11/2014 02:35:55 pm

You're not the first to suggest some sort of documentary, Ellis. There was a bit of talk about it a couple of years back, for the 20th anniversary. Rab Florence suggested it. I think everything keeps coming back to not really knowing how big an audience we have - the bigger it is, the bigger a thing we can do. So... still early days, but things are slowly coming into sharper focus.

Gogol1000

26/11/2014 02:51:25 pm

I would pay for something new from Digitiser. But something physical and hardback to stoke the nostalgia.

Slightly unrelated: is a compilation of the biffovision Edge articles a possible thing? Possibly?

26/11/2014 03:06:36 pm

It's not outside the realm of possibility. I'm not sure what I have saved, and might need to speak to Future, but if there's interest I could look into it. I think we're both keen to do something tangible and quite high-quality - Digi's ephemeral nature means none of us have anything to do with it that we can hold in our hands. Whether that's a book, or a DVD, or an app, or... I dunno yet. But yes, any online thing would - at least at this stage - just be here to support some sort of actual product. Thanks, Google.

Amiga Fan

27/11/2014 04:22:33 am

I hope any future Digitiser commemorates just how wrong you were about the Amiga and its future as a viable gaming platform.

27/11/2014 04:40:23 am

Yes please book please - Digi warped my brain in the best of ways.

Some limited edition t-shirts would be a great bonus incentive on a kickstarter (the people who do my band's merch are very reasonable - get in touch & I'll pass on details) of favourite characters (Zombie Dave saying something incredibly rude, for example).

The Bamboozle one I have (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ladies-Bamboozle-Teletext-T-Shirt/dp/B00AIO87EY) is one of my most prized possessions.

27/11/2014 05:33:20 am

Damn you, I now want a Zombie Dave t-shirt!

27/11/2014 07:52:38 am

That's two sales right away then!

27/11/2014 05:05:11 am

That Bamboozle shirt is fab - and Digi t-shirts are on the cards. Possibly even before we do any Kickstarter thing, as a way of helping to pay for this blog. We've also been looking at stickers, if it's something people would be interested in (they're a cheaper initial outlay than t-shirts).

Amiga Fan: hah! No.

Anjin

27/11/2014 09:13:05 am

I would be willing to pay actual cash money for a digitizer book, that would be amazing. Please do this.

snapsy

27/11/2014 10:02:31 am

i'd like to see all the good swears inked onto some sort of commemorative scrimshaw, blunderbuss or a book. I would pay 6 - 7 quid for it.

Stuart N. Obody

27/11/2014 10:21:40 am

I hope you do decide to do something with the Digitiser schtick once more. Frankly, if you were to excerpt the phonebook with the traditional Digi vocabulary and ORTHOGRAPHY then it would make me smile. More to the point, it would make me feel young again - and when I say young, thinking of the Digi era, I mean "early thirties". It doesn't need to be the most intricate thing in the world; Joe Wilkinson has made something of a career of a gimmick executed in a half-bottomed fashion, so you could surely get away with applying a quarter of your bottom.

I can make an empty promise that if ever I were to encounter you in a bar I would buy you GIN (*) but let's be frank, I probably wouldn't actually pay real cash money because CAPITALISM and INDEBTEDNESS. Honesty: here. Freeload-me-do!

(*) I bet you would actually prefer BEER in practice. You're not from Shoreditch.

Dave Vaner

27/11/2014 01:33:55 pm

I would give my liver, lungs and J-hole for a digi T-shirt. Like you say, not having anything tangible for the digi faithful to fondle and do nostalgia sweats into really needs to be rectified. Also while i'm not normally onboard with digging up the past I really can't overstate how happy I was to see you back and the blog really demonstrates that digi still has a place in the world. I wish I could contribute some ideas as to what that could be but I'm an uninsprired skankhole so just wanted to check in and say I'll be right behind whatever it is you come up with. Unless of course that turns out to be some kind of joint venture between Digi & UKIP, in which case I will say this: Biffo you have messed up.

27/11/2014 02:35:52 pm

Once again, cheers y'all for the feedback. We're actually looking into doing some cheap and cheerful stickers (Mr T saying "Stay Away From My Bins", Zombie Dave doing his "Frrg Rrrg", and the Digi logo) - just as a bit of a test, to recoup some of the cost of setting up the blog.

If they sell ok, and blog hits keep moving in a healthy direction, we'll start looking at something bigger...

28/11/2014 04:37:47 am

No moc-a-moc stickers??

Mr. Pete

28/11/2014 01:54:05 pm

Just commenting to add to the numbers saying it's brilliant to have you back & I'd certainly be happy to contribute to whatever will keep the blog going.

I'd love to see a digi annual trhough (with lots of fake adverts)

29/11/2014 04:13:05 am

Moc-up stickers arrive at Digi HQ soon. We'll see if they look any good, and if they do, we'll do a bit of a bigger run and off them up to test the water for more stuff.

We'd love to make Digi something more permanent, than just this sort of work-in-progress blog, but it's a big ask, as we've already got jobs. If anyone has any bright ideas for that... we're all ears.

At the moment, a book is looking more likely. We would ensure it was a thing of beauty, mind.

29/11/2014 07:01:27 am

I have to say, I'm not exactly massively enthused about the thought of stickers. I'd probably pay £30 for a digi book, but maybe not £5 for some stickers I have no use for.

29/11/2014 03:52:39 pm

Duly noted about the stickers, Anjin. It's just us fannying around really, before fully taking the plunge. But cheers for the £30 Digi book offer. That's really useful to know at this stage.

David

29/11/2014 08:11:42 am

Dear Mr. Biffo (and Hairs),

It's good to see Digi back and dare I say it, slightly older and wiser. There seems to be a little more reflection and nuance than before, probably partly because of time passing and also having more writing space than Teletext, but I've still paused to laugh several times reading your stuff over the past few days. Incidentally, if you like your games with no-swear options give Brütal Legend a go.

With regard to making money, having seem your reply to one comment I'm not sure if you remember the little Digiworld guys? You know, about ten years ago when you were tangentially involved with a failed attempt to make money from a Digi-style weekly online games magazine. It lasted eight weeks but was definitely worth 50p an issue. I hope you didn't fall out with any of those guys because here's a link to the archive:

http://theweekly.co.uk/digiworld/

If you do still love those little Digiworld guys, maybe you could try contacting J Nash? I think he was the brains making it look and function like Digitiser, such as the reveals, but also with seamless enhancements like little animated sketches. He also wrote and drew funnies, talked at great length about Zombies Ate My Neighbours, spent a grossly disproportionate amount of time and effort for the financial return, basically had all the qualities needed to do something similar again. Though I like the look of your site as it stands, much preferring elegance and clarity to reading the same content with two moving adverts nearby and a static one in the background, maybe he can tweak your blog template further towards the Teletext style? I'm not sure if the other little Digiworld guys would come back too, but you might get a one-off special Kieron Gillen's Nude Games Journalism, and Stuart Campbell might turn up anyway if you keep mentioning Nobbly Bobblies. Oh, and if you didn't already know, the Pickfords are also currently balancing resurrecting something they love with paying work via a Plok comic strip.

Though I see many readers would like to buy quality Digi merchandise, please give me the option to simply donate money for no reward other than more of your writing. Though it would be nice if you could implement a totaliser tracking overall donations and milestones such as covering hosting costs.

Here's a mad thought: why not write a gaming magazine for children? Inside it would be incredibly cheaply printed on thin paper, because chunky pixels can survive that, and most of the production cost would go towards a glossy cover with a small bag of sweets attached. Everyone wins: children buying it for sweets get sweets, children thinking Teletext is related to Minecraft get an article explaining how to recreate Mr. T in Minecraft, and those who read further get something far more informative and funny than 110% Gaming with only a small risk of lasting trauma. In the interests of fairness, here's the good joke from the first issue of 110% Gaming:

"What does Batman wash his hair with? Conditioner Gordon."

Credit/Blame is due to the Metro Gamecentral reader who tipped me off to this site, and also the Super Page 58 archive. I'm off to watch Biffovision now.

Love,

David

29/11/2014 03:59:38 pm

Thanks, David. That's all really, really appreciated. I think we're going to do some sort of poll - perhaps next week. Currently, people seem split between wanting us to do a book, and wanting us to do a more permanent, more fully blooded, version of Digi.

In all honesty, the latter is obviously more time-consuming, and not a finite project, and therefore a tougher call. I'm not 100% comfortable with something like Patreon - though if we did have enough people paying for Digi on an ongoing basis, it's something I know that I would love to do (Making it more of an all-singing site, with reviews, news, etc.). So... it'll take some thinking.

But all of this feedback is incredibly helpful.

Antony adler link

29/11/2014 10:31:55 am

1) never underestimate how big you were back in the day, there's a big fanbase out there
2) your writing style remains not only unique but is more relevant than ever before and most importantly of all, remains hilarious
3)I'll gladly throw cash at you for any old tat or even for nothing more than ensuring you carry this on
4) I run a print company.if you want some free printing let me know
5) I, like others LOVE you biffo! NEVER leave us again!!!

29/11/2014 04:05:16 pm

Antony, I'm genuinely humbled. Thank you so much for that. In all honesty, I was faintly terrified of making a return to being Biffo, but the warmth and kindness from people like yourself has been completely overwhelming. You've no idea how much it means. Plus, I'd forgotten how much I love writing this stuff, and have no intention of stopping anytime soon.

It's just a question of finding a way to make it financially viable, given that - in the years I've been away - I've gone and established myself in an entirely different job.

Everyone's feedback is suggesting lots of potential options, though.

Ste

30/11/2014 05:37:14 pm

well mr biffo (sniffs) and hairs (chokes back tears) it be good to have you back.
and about bloody time too!
but what with trying to read all the goodness on gamecentral (the spritual, and quality, digitiser successor), with their twice daily inbox (one of many digi traditions they've kept up), and now your daily blog updates to read, combined with working full time and, y'know, having a life, im struggling to fit in actually PLAYING some games and not just read about them! Do you see?!
Like many here, you were such a part of my daily routine, i got genuinely excited if i knew you were gonna review a game i wanted. ( was actually gutted to be on holiday when you reviewed Mario64- sad but true!)
its great to have all these characters back cussing people up bad, and I will add my dirty paw print to the list who would give money to make something good happen, be it in book-form or whatever.
Again, im hardly the answer man, but if you built up this page to have a following, could adverts keep it going?? (though not the great big atrocities that you find on nme.com that make that site UNREADABLE!!)
We all love what you guys do, that is entertaining us with regular laugh-o-trons, and so yes please find a way of making it so again. That is all.

1/12/2014 01:44:28 am

Hello, Ste. Adverts are one idea, but realistically it's not going to make us a ton. At least not at this stage. We're off to a good start, but the blog's reach isn't huge yet. We're wary of plugging it too heavily online, for fear of annoying people, but we're resigned to the fact it might be what we have to do. But thank you, hugely, for your support. Anything you can do to spread the word is going to help loads.

Bren

1/12/2014 04:12:19 am

This: http://www.amazon.com/1001-Video-Games-Must-Before/dp/0789320908

...but Digitiser-style, every page a teletext review/feature, interspersed with fake ads and the usual nonsense.

1/12/2014 04:23:26 am

Cheers, Bren. Something like that is the current thinking. Or it was, before people started asking about making Digi 2000 more of a permanent thing.

Whatever we do, our immediate issue is one of funding, and getting the word out there. We had a great week last week for the blog traffic, but it's still a bit up and down. Fortunately, for us, we're busy chaps, but we need to know we can afford to give whatever we do the time it deserves. But... we're loving writing it so much it hurts.

Frank Chickens

1/12/2014 08:11:51 am

I was overjoyed to discover that Digitiser had a permanent home on the web and delighted to see that nothing had changed in the interim. Keep up the good work!

A book would be the best way of going forward covering the history of Digitiser with a making of section. See if you could get past contributers such as Stu Cambell and Violet Berlin to give their memories of Digitiser.

Another merchandise option would be a t-shirt with the front page of Digitiser on it. You could use a site like Cafe Press to minimise costs.

I too would pay for a subscription to ensure the smooth running of the site; Digitiser is one thing that should not be lost.

1/12/2014 08:56:42 am

Thanks, Bough. If we can get a head of steam, we'd love to do t-shirts. Something we also considered, but we've probably left it too late for this year, is a Digitiser calendar.

But any book would, we'd hope, feature as many of our old contributors as possible. We're not going to hustle for funding anything until the new year - so people can get Christmas out of the way, and we can see if the audience continues in the right direction. That should give plenty of time for more of this very excellent feedback.

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24/12/2014 11:38:28 am

The German parody remains my favourite, ja! I think that may in turn get parodied by a certain Mr Illarterate in 2015... ;)

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