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THE LATEST RETRO GAMING DRAMA AND MY PART IN IT

13/2/2020

 
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I only consider myself to have one foot in the retro gaming community these days. Though I continue to write a column for Retro Gamer magazine, since Digitiser The Show went out I've kind of drifted away from active involvement. Last year was a turning point, as you'd have no doubt picked up from the feelings I wrote about in the multiple posts on here, and Patreon, while trying to figure it out.

Fact is, I didn't play games as much as I had done in the past. Partly, I just didn't have the time or energy. I was incredibly busy with the day job, and... gaming wasn't how I wanted to spend my down time. 

I'd not gone off games, but my interest in writing or making content about them was starting to wane. Over 27 years, I can't imagine how many words about games I've written, and I knew I needed to keep my powder dry when it came to gaming-related projects I did choose to do (Retro Gamer being one, Digitiser Live 2.0 being another). Gaming, broadly, was starting to feel like a straightjacket in terms of my creativity.

However, in truth not all of my move away from games content was due to that sense of ennui. There was also an increasing feeling that rarely a day went by on social media where there wasn't some new retro gaming drama unfolding. 

Every fandom has its dramas of course - I mean, just look at the state of Star Wars - but because I was Mr Biffo, it seemed that there were those, both publicly and behind the scenes, who wanted to draw me into it. I'd get told gossipy stuff uninvited, or be asked for my opinions on the latest scandal, and I just didn't want any part of it. I didn't like the way some of my acquaintances revelled in it.

There are two sides to every story, and, unless I was party to both, or had some vested interest, I tended to stay out of it. But it kept happening. Countless troll accounts. Horacegate. Hate videos. Copyright claims. Whispers and rumours etc. etc. It was ugly and depressing.

Unfortunately, as many of you will no doubt be aware, it has come to light over the past week that many of the dramas the community has been wrestling with over the past year appear as if the may be the work of just one person.

One person - if true - who otherwise acted as a well-intentioned member of the community, who befriended many while stabbing them in the back, who has secretly sat at the heart of all this, like some sort of Machiavellian, retro gaming, spider.

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THE GOLDEN AGE OF BIRD MAGAZINES

13/2/2020

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Bird mags. Bird mags. BIRD MAGS. Burd?

Why aren't there as many bird magazines as there used to be?!

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ARE THESE THE GREATEST BIRD MOVIES OF ALL TIME?

11/2/2020

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Birds. What are they? From whence do they come? Why are they? How are they? Questions to which we are unlikely to ever receive a satisfactory answer. And yet, that never seems to stop movies featuring birds regularly topping the VHS rental charts.

Here's a gallery of some of the greatest bird movies of all time. Please... what are your favourites?

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EMBARRASSING CONFESSIONS - With Baby Beanus & Fat Sow!

10/2/2020

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Move over, Baby Yoda! An exciting puppet dance-off between Ricky the Reckless YouTube Commentator, Fat Sow and Baby Beanus takes us neatly into a few rounds of Bad People - a terrible card game for awful millennials, full of embarrassing confessions!

Featuring Eli Silverman from Cheapshow and Barshens! Not for children!

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THE DIGITISER FRIDAY LETTERS PAGE

7/2/2020

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Been a big week for Digi-related things yes?

You will have surely noticed that tickets went on sale for Digitiser Live 2.0 - which is surely to be the best event you'll go to this year based upon a 27 year-old teletext games magazine. Tickets are now almost two-thirds sold out, which is lovely, but we're still about 30 ticket sales away from the point at which I feel I can relax a bit, and stop with so much of the hard-sell.

As Patrons will be aware, we're hoping to have an astonishing line-up of guests, while the plans we're formulating for the actual content will - if we manage to make it all work - drop your drawers. I mean... jaws. And your drawers (knickers).

So, if you're wavering... stop wavering. You'll have a night you never forget. Promise. Click the link above. They're only £20. They should've been £20.50 to account for the booking fee, but I forgot to add that in, so they're actually £19.50. Bloody hell.

Look, just read the letters.


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DIGITISER LIVE 2.0 - TICKETS NOW ON SALE!

6/2/2020

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It's happening! Tickets are now on sale for Digitiser Live 2.0, taking place on Saturday July 25th 2020. Tickets are just £20, and include Chunky Fringe, a series of talks, panels and demonstrations, with a Digitiser and retro tech theme, running throughout the day. 

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Read on for all the essential information!

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WEIRD CHEESE TASTE TEST

3/2/2020

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We taste 5 extremely unusual cheeses, before trying them melted on toast. Naturally, Biffo gets a bit over-excited, and Sanja begs him to stop playing with the knife... 

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WHAT TO BREXPECT - WITH Jim Davidson

31/1/2020

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SEAL'S CRAB CAFE

31/1/2020

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DIGITISER LIVE 2.0 - IT'S HAPPENING!

28/1/2020

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We're doing it again! Last year's Digitiser Live was such a success that we're stupidly going to attempt to catch lightning in a bottle a second time. Appropriately, the risk of electrocution is high.

We can't tell you much at the minute - we can't even confirm the date - but what we can tell you is that while there'll be a few changes, it'll once again be themed loosely around retro gaming. We're still awaiting final confirmation from the venue, but we're hoping it'll be held at the same North London arts centre as before, which has decent transport links, and isn't in the scary bit of town. 

Whereas the first Digi Live used Digitiser The Show as its springboard, this year's event will take its cue from the current format of the Digitiser YouTube channel. Having learned a lot from last year, Gannon, Sanja and I hope to invite a stellar array of special guests to join us in the chaos, with the aim of topping the first one in terms of scale and absurdity. 

We're also talking about holding another Chunky Fringe during the day leading up to the live show,  again with the assistance of last year's organisers David Walford and Chris Bell. We also know that for many of you it was a uniquely special social gathering, so we're hoping to make more of that aspect if possible. 

Already many of you have volunteered your services, but right now we're not looking for help. We're still putting the show together, so don't even know all the details ourselves. Rest assured, if we need volunteers... we'll ask.

Tickets will be going on sale soon, but, for now, this is a chance for you to discuss the new live show in the comments. Tell us what you want from the event. Who you'd like to see there. What you enjoyed about the first one. And so on and so forth. 
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THE NEXT GENERATION OF SUPER HEROES GAME

27/1/2020

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Tony Stark is dead. Wolverine is dead. Captain America is old. Thor got out of shape - we need a new generation of super-heroes! Forget Watchmen, The Justice League, Marvel's Avengers and X-Men.

In this week's Digitiser, Biffo, Gannon and Eli Silverman step forwards to save the world via a ridiculous game! It's our very own Snyder Cut (or something).  

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THE DIGITISER FRIDAY LETTERS PAGE

24/1/2020

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See that image above? It's funny isn't it? But you can all stop tagging me in it now, because I can promise you I've seen it about a thousand times already, and I long ago stopped finding original ways to respond.

Equally... yes, yes. Very funny is the idea that Beanus has a brother who likes peas - but again, I've now heard the joke on average five times per day since the 
autumn. Also... the whole joke is already that "Beanus" obviously sounds a bit like "penis", so... y'know. It's like telling Kenny Everett - there's a contemporary reference for you - that it'd be funny if his character Cupid Stunt changed the first letters of her name around. Yes. You see... THAT'S THE JOKE.

Please. Please... no more. Every day. Every. Single. Day. Please. I'm begging you. PLEASE.

Anyway. Let's have some letters!


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MY CHRISTMAS WITH XCLOUD

22/1/2020

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GUEST ARTICLE by DAVID HESLOP

What did you get up to on your Christmas holidays? I know, I know; we’re already well into January. The decorations are back in the loft, the only Celebrations left in the tin are Mars bars and Bountys, and no one at work will shut up about how they have to spend the month doing a poo on a chemical toilet because it’s “Caravanuary”.

But, like an over-enthusiastic primary schooler, I’m here to tell you about my Christmas. Because I got two things: a Bluetooth-enabled Xbox controller (presumably my last one communicated in semaphore) and an invite to Microsoft’s xCloud beta.
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xCloud, for the uninitiated or plain uninterested, is Microsoft’s still-in-the-oven game streaming service. Currently operating mostly in a closed invite-only beta test, it can be seen as a rival to Google’s controversial Stadia platform.

​Like many, I read with great interest Mr Biffo’s experiences with Stadia, which went against the prevailing gaming press opinion (and the opinion of lots of people on the internet, presumably all of whom have played it extensively before commenting with such vitriol). I’ve not got Stadia – looks a bit too expensive for what it is from where I’m sitting, but I can very much imagine it works well enough – but I was asked by Mr B to share my experiences with xCloud.

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ces 2020 highlights - BY super bad advice

21/1/2020

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GUEST ARTICLE by SUPER BAD ADVICE
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Well it’s a new month, a new year and a new decade. And you know what that means? Yes, that’s right: nothing, given our calendar system starts at an arbitrary point in time with no specific meaning. But as this has been going on for 2000-odd years now it’s probably simpler to just go along with it, yeah?
 
However: the turning of the year also heralds the shambling return of CES – the big annual electronics expo where companies spaff out a load of new rubbish you don’t need, right after you bought last year’s bloody model for Xmas. To show we’ve got our finger if not on the pulse, then at least hovering menacingly near your trembling wrist, here’s our rundown of this year’s most desirable ‘wares’. They’re so hot, they’ll scald your glabella!

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TASTING ICELAND FOOD - INCLUDING ROTTEN SHARK!

20/1/2020

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Biffo and Sanja taste-test a selection of exotic Iceland food and snacks, including curried herring and hákarl aka fermented or rotten shark - famously, one of worst foods in the worlds.

Suffice to say, Biffo barely manages to keep it down...

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