What were the final words of your favourite celebrities, including Freddie Mercury from Queen? Find out on Digitiser Deluxe - featuring Mr Biffo, Paul Gannon, and Sanja, plus special guests Chris Jerden Cooke and Sooz Kempner! The winners receive a luxury memorial!
  Linksssss time! If you're wondering where all the posts have gone on this site... well, they'll be back as and when. I'm mostly posting blogs over on Patreon now, where I can talk about things in a little more depth, with a bit more of a personal touch. Also: you get early access to videos, and higher tier backers get, in addition to the blogs, the occasional exclusive video.
This week, Patrons were treated to a whole deleted sequence from next week's Digi. Just $1 gets you early access and some posts, and $5 gets you all the blogs and stuff. I have to say, I've been hugely gratified by the response to the first two eps of Digitiser Deluxe. If you've not seen them, it's very much an evolution for the channel, and I implore you to check them out. There's still all that Digi nonsense - Walrus Shoes! - but with a bit more focus. I mean, for the first time since Ashens was on we haven't lost subscribers when we've uploaded a video! Result. If there's somebody you'd like to see as a guest on the show, please post suggestions below, or hassle them on Twitter to reach out to us. Ash and Sooz were a brilliant addition to the line-up, and we'd like more funny people in that vein. If you're not already sick of my voice, having had two Digitiser videos in the space of a week, you can hear me drinking cocktails and discussing murder on the latest episode of the excellent Mystery on the Rocks podcast, with recent, and soon-to-be-again, Digi guest Sooz Kempner. Gannon's bound-to-be-excellent ghosthunting autobiography still needs support in order to become a reality. You can do that here. And, of course, there are still some tickets left for Digitiser Live. Don't miss out. If you want to appear here, or you've something you'd like me to give some attention to in our occasional Plug Zone, please send your filthy emails to this place here: digitiser2000@gmail.com The worst, dumbest, Kickstarter campaigns and products ever versus fake ones - Biffo challenges Gannon, Eli and special guest Ash Frith play to tell the difference in this ridiculous Digitiser Deluxe game! Can you guess the right answers?
 Newwwwwssss! Tickets for Digi Live 2.0 have sold extremely well. Given we've still got five months to go, and we've sold all but 100 or so of the tickets, I'm hopeful we're going to sell out, or as near as dammit. Which is great. Get yours now so you don't miss out.
If you missed the earlier FAQ, you can find that here. However, a few updates: We're planning to have a merch table. We've ordered some Digi Logo enamel badges, and - we'll know for certain once they arrive here and have shipped to backers - we may have a limited number of Digitiser The Show DVDs. We probably aren't going to do t-shirts, given the faff with both sizes and the space needed for them, but we're going to sell at least one limited edition Digitiser Live 2.0 shirt beforehand through our Redbubble store, so you can wear it to the event. Mugs take up a lot of space too, and are expensive, so most likely we'll just be selling the badges, and possibly posters and postcards. Again, if you want mugs, check out Redbubble. Chunky Fringe is coming together, and you can read all about it here. It'll run from 11am to 5pm on the day of the event, and is free to all. Highlights include a Digitiser quiz, a retro gaming panel, and some sort of panel with me on it talking about Digi and Teletext. Chris Bell is also looking to book somewhere on the Friday night for some sort of gathering. We had considered a screening of some Biffo-related stuff at the Arts Centre, but unfortunately the small hall is being refurbished. There's also now a Facebook group for attendees. You can find that here. If you're coming on your own, and you're a little anxious, it's the perfect way to introduce yourself, and get to know people beforehand. As said many times, it's a lovely community, and very understanding of people's differing needs. You will be welcomed. In other news, you may well have seen the first episode of Digitiser Deluxe. I'm very proud of it - it feels like the channel has a new focus. But anyhow, during this first run of Digi Deluxe, you'll be seeing a lot of both Sooz Kempner and Ash Frith. I think it's okay now to announce them both as the first confirmed guests for this year's Digi Live. They fit into Digi perfectly, and I couldn't be more honoured that they want to keep being involved. We've got other guests lined-up, but as it's availability dependent, we'll have to confirm them nearer the time. Suffice to say, if we manage to get everyone we want to get... it's going to be a very special day. In the first episode of Digitiser Deluxe, we try out real prison food hack recipes, including Prison Pizza, Prison Pad Thai, and Prison Tamales - plus ultra--rare prison chips/crisps, The Whole Shebang. Mr Biffo, Paul Gannon and Eli Silverman, ex of Barshens, stuff their fat faces with special guest Sooz Kempner.
Not for children! Contains flashing images. DO NOT WATCH! Due to forces beyond our control, this episode of Digitiser contains a curse. What was intended as a fun general knowledge quiz, with impossible questions about Pokemon vs Digimon, Nintendo's Super Punch-Out and drag queens - and featuring a reunion between Barshens friends Paul Gannon and Chris Bullock - is instead inexplicably haunted. Please accept our apologies.
 Attention! Normally here I'd be hounding you to buy your Digitiser Live ticket (over 300 sold, so I think it might actually happen that we sell out). Instead, I'm going to ask you to support the crowdfunding campaign for Paul Gannon's book, Ain't Afraid of No Ghost.
It's Gannon's life story through the prism of Ghosts and Ghostbusters, based upon the warm, funny, and deeply personal stand-up show which led him ultimately to becoming part of Digitiser. I wouldn't normally be this sincere when it comes to Gannon, but, well, it's Valentine's Day, I suppose. And, also, I think he deserves the success. I may have made fun of him for his love of Ghostbusters, but his passion is genuinely kind of adorable. Crowdfund him! If you want to appear here, or you've something you'd like me to give some attention to in our occasional Plug Zone, please send your filthy emails to this place here: digitiser2000@gmail.com  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.  Bird mags. Bird mags. BIRD MAGS. Burd?
Why aren't there as many bird magazines as there used to be?!  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? 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! Subscribe for regular videos, and support Digitiser on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/digitiser2000 Buy official Digitiser merch from our store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/digi...  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. If you want to appear here, or you've something you'd like me to give some attention to in our occasional Plug Zone, please send your filthy emails to this place here: digitiser2000@gmail.com 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. Click the button to grab your ticket.  Read on for all the essential information!
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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