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24/2/2017

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It's Friday - at last!

If you're in Cambridge this weekend, then please ensure you head on down to the Centre For Computing History, for Block Party 2017 - two days of teletext-based shenanigans. Sadly, I won't be there this weekend, but I'll be there next Saturday for the public premiere of Episode 1 of Found Footage. Tickets to this charity evening of geek-themed comedy are just ten pounds! Come hang out with us.

Those who can't make it will be able to watch the first ep of Found Footage on the following Sunday evening on the Digitiser2000 YouTube Channel. Subscribe now to ensure you miss NOTHING.

As always, it'd be great if you can help spread the word about Found Footage. We know it won't be for everyone... but as much as it's for me - and for those of you who backed it - and for all the insecurity that comes with creative projects, I think its level of ambition goes beyond what you generally tend to see on YouTube. I'd hate for it to just vanish into the ether. And I'd love to do a second, even more ambitious, series.

But look: it is time for the letters. If you would like to appear on next week's page, or you've something you'd like me to give some attention to in our occasional Plug Zone - please send your emails for next week to this place here: 
digitiser2000@gmail.com
JOG MY BRAIN
Y'all remember this? I just had my memory jogged and holy shit. :o
Paul Philipson
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Yes. Yes, I do remember that. Presumably they were aiming for a sort of Viz-for-video games thing, but ended up with the only games magazine that actually looked worse than Digitiser.

Speaking of... Teletext very kindly ran some ads for Digi in Electric Brain, which featured a hand-drawn Man With A Long Chin. That was in the days when Teletext's marketing department also tried to get a Digitiser Fan Club off the ground, before we told them it was a stupid idea. Our argument went that Digi was daily, so what exactly could a monthly fan club magazine offer?

It's funny to think that, at one point, Teletext actually viewed Digitiser as a positive thing, rather than an aggressive cancer eating away at the heart of the service.
FOR BETTER STORE WORSE
For the first time in an age, I went into a physical videogames store today. You see, due to a set of circumstances I’d really rather forget, I found myself in the centre of town on a week day. That is to say, IN HELL (student city).

In a desperate attempt to soften the blow, I sought shelter in the glowing, warm (and faintly sticky) aisles of a well-known high-street videogames store. For many years such a thing has been unnecessary thanks to the wonders of the internet, feeding as it does my staunch aversion for any form of actual human contact.

I’d forgotten it was half-term. Well. What can I say? The horror. Not only was the store full of mewling hell-spawn and their cranially vacant forebears (all of which seemed to be buying them curiously age inappropriate games, it must be noted), but there was a gentleman INSISTING that, no, his ratty two-year-old console was definitely an ‘A’ grade and not a ‘B’ grade and by crikey he wasn’t going anywhere until he got his extra tenner.

Twelve year olds with the vocabulary of a well-seasoned sailor scurried along the aisles, perusing shelves filled with terrible, glossily-dull “AAA” titles and festering copies of FIFA 16. Everything smelt vaguely of desperation and cat urine.

When I got home, I hugged my router.

Yours still-trying-to-scrub-the-ick-from-my-flesh,
James Cooper
aka: Mr Jalco


PS: Should you fancy plugging my competition (http://mrjalco.co.uk/imperial-walkies/), I shan’t complain. Ta muchly.

I'm going to assume that the chain you're referring to is CEX, which I too have always found somewhat intimidating, on account of its grungy, industrial, aesthetic, deafening music, and staff who I feel are  slagging me off the second I'm out of the door. 

For the first time in living memory I had to go into one last year to buy my daughter a computer for uni - she had a miserable friend who worked there, who could get her a discount, see. Anyway. Yeah. It hadn't improved any, and I was pretty sure I got slagged off the second I was out the door.

Many years ago, I tried to sell my copy of Duke Nukem 3D at my local CEX, but they refused to take it on account of this: "It has bird shit on the box".

Which, to be fair, it did, but it felt a bit rich coming from them.
HONEY ROAST BOTHAM
I don't really have a letter for you.
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Instead, I have made this 80s album cover that I think you may get some enjoyment from, maybe.

Loved the Found Footage teasers so far. Can't wait for the full release.
Sean
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That's quite the lovely thing, and I thank you for sharing it with me and the Digitiser2000 readers. Also, quite easy to believe it was real.
ASS-ASS-IN
You know those magazines that come out where you can collect something with each issue, like a couple of matchsticks to complete a matchstick ship in a bottle over 300 issues etc? Issue 1: £1.99, subsequent issues: £SHIT.LOADS?

Just seen an advert for one with Assassins Creed "vinyl figures".
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​Please advise.
Ian
I struggle to believe that it's going to be a long-running publication. Also, what happens when they run out of lead protagonists? Does anybody really want a figure of Rupert Ferris? Who? Well, exactly.

I've never bought one of those magazines, though I was tempted by the Star Wars build-a-Millennium Falcon one. I haven't got the patience, though, and know I'd lose all the bits in the ten or so years it would take to complete.
GAMING MILL'S LETTER
I've gone until nearly March before I made the most daft purchase of 2017.

It is beauty personified. Want one? I got it here (and it has nothing to do with me): https://shop-ballyhoo.com/products/nicolas-cage-rage-faces-t-shirt

I am fit and strong and that is all.
Gaming Mill.
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That was a very brief letter for you, Gaming Mill. Here's hoping everything is good in the new accommodation. I am picturing you in it right now... wearing your Cage t-shirt, and nothing else from the waist down, while hammering on the windows and screaming at passers-by.
KING WRONG
That was funny when you typed that thing wrong.
 
Love,
Biscuits The Character
 
P.S. I am greatly anticipating Biffo’s Found Footage, and would like to offer sincere congratulations on completion of episode 1. It’s not every Kickstarter project that sees completion, and I have been very impressed with the high quality of the clips so far; they are ‘rich’, with all sorts of textures and sounds and what have you, and also, crucially, they are very funny.

​I have also been greatly enjoying the ‘tribute’ series of articles, great writing in there. I was so taken with ‘shrivelled up like a walrus in a kiln’ I found myself telling my mum about it. She liked it too.
It is interesting that you mention these two things, given that one has led to a lack of the other. I'm going to have a social media-style whinge now, so everyone might like to just skip ahead to the next letter, while I indulge myself.

Somehow - without it meaning to happen - a whole ton of work I took on all ended up with a deadline of "End of Feb". Plus...! I'm in Cambridge next weekend, hosting the Centre For Computing History's Retro Comedy Night - at which, as mentioned, I promised to show Ep 1 of Found Footage - thus giving me yet another deadline (do come along though - tickets are just a tenner, proceeds go to charity, and it's going to be a good night, probably... plus you might get to be in a future episode of Found Footage).

Which is all to say... this is why Digitiser2000 was a little on the light side this week. Sorry. I've gone and knackered myself out again. Want me to do nothing but Digitiser2000 and Found Footage, and video game tribute articles and stuff? Then you can join the ranks of lovelies who already back me on Patreon! 

Anyhow, having thought it was done, I'm actually going to be slightly re-editing Ep 1 of Found Footage, now that I've shown it to a handful of people. Everyone was very polite about it, so of course I spent all day yesterday fretting that they were actually trying to hide their disappointment. And then again at 4am this morning. I got terribly down about it, which isn't something that generally happens to me. 

It's good in a way that I'm fretting. It makes me work all the harder. With most of my TV jobs, I've got a producer and script editor to help steer the script in the right direction - who then hand it over to a director and cast and editor and production team to make the thing. It has been years since I've needed to worry whether or not my work is rubbish. I can pass the buck to them, see.

With Found Footage that buck stops with me, and given the huge amount of work that I'm taking on single-handedly - writing, directing, animating, editing, and actually being in one sketch (which I hope to do less of, given that the acting doesn't sit comfortably with me) - I accept that there's always the risk I may be too close to it. It's terribly exposing, especially on something that's such a direct portal into my subconscious.

That's what was getting to me yesterday: I feel proud of it... but fear that potentially what I'm proud of isn't that Found Footage is good and funny and weird and confusing and multilayered in the way I've intended, but simply that I worked really hard on it, and can't see that it's actually shit. Which is why honest feedback helps. I can always take it; I've been a writer for nearly 20 years; I've had more feedback/criticism in that time than ten people get in a lifetime.

Anyhow... that was all a bit of a ramble of a blog post. Way to build up hype, Biffo!

You can judge for yourself when you get to see Episode 1 on March 5th. Or March 4th, if you're coming to Cambridge.
T-BAG
Last week, when Mr. T introduced the Friday Letters, his abs looked like Batman.

Has the Caped Crusader been searching bins for sustenance, or special publications? And I don't mean the Lakeland catalogue.
David W
Press reveal to find out:
REVEAL:
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ATTACK OF THE KLONOA
Sorry that the last image wasn't quite what you wanted. I took another shot, though as I was in a hurry I didn't check exactly what you asked for. I'm pretty sure it was a picture of the Little Chef kicking Klonoa off a bridge?
Spiney O'Sullivan

PS: Klonoa: Door To Phantomile - boxed with the Point Blank demo - goes for a surprising amount on eBay these days. So I guess choosing to buy games that none of my friends wanted to play because back then they were all about Tomb Raider and Gran Turismo actually paid off in the end. Hooray?
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I'd entirely forgotten about Klonoa until this very minute. Though I can't help but feel that - with your image - you're rather getting away from the gentle magic that was games characters throwing food at household objects. 
ORDER! ORDER! 1886!
While it wasn't especially good, although not as bad as it is remembered as being, I always thought that The Order 1886 should have been a Witcher style action RPG. Its setting and story were very good and I think that it would have worked better as a different style of game.

Have you ever played a game that you feel would have worked better as a different style?

In an imaginary world where Sega still made consoles and had the money to do so, do you feel that their franchises would capture the imagination and wallets of the modern public?
John Whyte
Hmm. The problem with The Order 1886 was, for me, as much about the setting as anything else. It was a really pretty game, but the script was as dumb and predictable as all heck, and the characters so very bland. I didn't want to spend anymore time in that world as it was, let alone another game featuring it.

I dunno. I'm playing For Honor at the moment. I sort of like it, but I can level many of the same complaints at it. Plus everything just looks the same. Castles... forests... people in armour. 

Which leads me to your second question. I miss the days when every game felt different - or, at least, looked different - but my gut tells me that, no, you couldn't just put out old-style Sega games. They would need an overhaul - you couldn't just do, say, Crazy Taxi now that Grand Theft Auto does Crazy Taxi as just part of its sandbox.

But why couldn't you do a new Golden Axe? That's effectively what For Honor is - albeit without the magic, and the thieving imps. I could see Shinobi working as an Uncharted-style game - but with swords! 

Out Run would work... Zaxxon could... Heck, let's have a new Jet Set Radio, in a massive open world - but with that same aesthetic and attitude as the original. Do the same for Streets of Rage. Of course, none of this is going to happen, because Sega - with the exception of Sonic - has pretty much ignored its heritage since the Dreamcast coughed its last.
GATISS
You want another celeb incident,  do ya?

Once, while walking through Covent Garden, I noticed the unmistakable face of Mark Gatiss - he of League of Gentleman fame, and having just presented an excellent series on horror movies.  I wanted to say hello and compliment him on his "history of horror" series, but social anxiety wouldn't allow it.

So I, stupidly,  went for the casual option - as I passed him, I did that slight, upwards tilt of the head that all guys do to each other. Like a silent "alright, mate". Gatiss replied with a facial expression,  half confusion, half disgust. He turned his head away, like a cartoon posh person, and I felt like throwing myself off a fucking cliff. 

So my question is, have you ever made a knob of yourself in front of someone you respect?
Tammy Stage
I'm sure I must've done... Actually... yes. I remember now: I was working with Hartswood Films (who now make Sherlock) on a sitcom script, and they invited me to a drinks evening thing. That afternoon, the script had been given the green light by Channel 4 to be made into a pilot (one of two failed projects I worked on with them - the other being Biffovision).

I'm out of my depth anyway with something so achingly middle class as a drinks party, but knew literally nobody there, so I was even more uncomfortable than usual.

Still, I got introduced to a bunch of chaps who - being a massive geek - I knew instantly were writers on Doctor Who. They were clearly mid-conversation, and evidently didn't appreciate me being crowbarred into it. Steven Moffatt - who is married into the Hartswood family - asked me what I was doing there, at which point I just repeated what somebody had said to me earlier in the evening: "I've just had my script green-lit for a pilot, so everyone here is going to hate me."

Somebody mumbled "Confratulations" Moffatt looked down his nose at me, then dragged the other writers away to continue their conversation, and I was on my own again, wanting to die.

I should add that I met Steven Moffat again at the wrap party for said sitcom, and he was funny and charming, and I liked him very much.

Later in the evening at that same drinks party, I got chatting to somebody else that I'd been introduced to, and we'd been moaning together about the miserable life of the struggling writer. 

"Sorry, what did you say your name was, again?" I asked after a while.

He replied: "Stephen Poliakoff."

Something very similar happened to me at the Royal Television Society Awards a couple of years ago, when I asked somebody why he was at the awards, not realising that he was Cbeebies icon Mr Bloom.

Sorry if that's all a bit showbiz. Trust me: in an otherwise beautifully mundane life, I have to hang onto these specks of glitter. 
39 Comments
PeskyFletch
24/2/2017 11:48:35 am

FIRST! Boom, take that, lifetime of underachievement

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DEAN
24/2/2017 11:50:22 am

Bird shit on the box?

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Mr Biffo
24/2/2017 11:52:21 am

Don't ask me how. I hadn't even noticed until it was pointed out to me.

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DEAN
24/2/2017 12:33:54 pm

LOL - even better!

That would have made for the best eBay feedback ever:

"Not as described - covered in shit - avoid!"

Chris
25/2/2017 12:59:58 pm

You can say what you like about CEX, but at least they're observant.

"Can I trade this in?"
"Nah, it's covered in bird shit, mate"
"Yeah, BUT WE'RE IN CEX."

PeskyFletch
24/2/2017 11:57:00 am

In the defence of CeX how terrible the store is varies from location to location. For me the absolute nadir of them is the one in central leeds. It combines absurdly high levels of staffing with incredibly slow levels of service(i once queued in there for over forty minutes). Mind, it could be that out of the twenty five or so employees about 80% of them are trying to appear the most alt and quirky (in hopes of snagging the store hottie) rather than DOING THEIR FUCKING JOB. In fairness i havene't been there in 3 or so years, so it might have vastly approved. My partner was, at the time, an area manager for Aldi and used to joke that she could run about 6 stores with the amount of staff they had.

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Mr Jalco link
24/2/2017 12:03:30 pm

The staff at Aldi and Lidl always look like they're in the 4th circle of hell though. Do they actively seek to hire the clinically depressed or what?

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PeskyFletch
24/2/2017 01:27:27 pm

Nah, they just have to work bloody hard. Decent wages at Aldi though, they get paid a monthly bonus based on their productivity

DEAN
24/2/2017 06:23:02 pm

I don't really go to ALDI but I do go to Lidl from time-to-time.
Great fresh produce, I mean really great - their fruit is better than you get from Tesco et al. Give Waitrose a run for their money!

Waitrose is a funny one, isn't it? I like what Stephen Fry said - Sainsbury's only exists to keep the shit out of Waitrose!
But yeah, Waitrose... Prefer M&S Food, me. And if you're buying big brands why pay more at Waitrose...ahhh yeah, the luxury of being able to shop away from the gurning and cackles of the great unwashed. Like a snob tax.

Spiney O'Sullivan
24/2/2017 09:59:59 pm

I actually quite like CEX. Dirt cheap aesthetics, but it knows what it is and doesn't pretend otherwise.

That said, my views on retail games shopping have rather been soured by a couple of experiences at one particular game store that I will leave unnamed. The most notable one featured the surly hipster that I'd previously found to be totally incapable of decent customer interaction behind the counter spending much of his time playing Fifa or something before finally deigning to deal with the customers. He then proceeded to slam the disc drawers around in a way that prompted that customer to ask "bad day?" in a friendly manner. The hipster's response was a surly "I prefer to be treated with RESPECT". It utterly justified my earlier decision to strategically lose a few places in the queue ("oh, you go ahead, I'm just taking a look at these near-the-counter impulse knick-knacks") so that I wouldn't be served by the awful hipster, admittedly making that poor guy's encounter sort of my fault...

Though in fairness, there are plenty of nice people in that same shop, and retail games stores aren't all bad. I have to plug the excellent G-Force games in Glasgow, an independent gaming staple that featured in Consolevania (or was it Videogaiden?). It's always great to see little independent games shops still running.

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Mr Jalco link
24/2/2017 11:57:36 am

Worry not about Found Footage. I'm sure it'll be great. You're just going through last minute "oh no I'm bearing my inner self to folk and there's no one to check and balance oh no" syndrome.

Trust me, as someone who works in a field where I do ideation, creation, editing and final production (basically, I'm my own editor/critic), the 4am panic wake up is very common.

It's a good thing. I find the people that don't worry about whether what they're producing is good enough are insufferably arrogant gits.

Can't wait to see the final product!

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Mr Biffo
24/2/2017 12:02:10 pm

It's weird. I honestly can't remember the last time I had it. Oddly, even Biffovision didn't give me nerves, possibly because I had Mr Hairs to share them with. It was probably when I did my big BBC1 sitcom pilot - mainly because it was in front of a studio audience. The first laugh was a massive relief.

This time, it's kind of all on me, plus people were SO generous on Kickstarter, I don't want to let anybody down.

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Mr Jalco link
24/2/2017 12:06:25 pm

Creative anxiety (and the much trumpeted about imposter syndrome) can be a pretty inexplicable thing. I've had doing something I've done for 20 years, with no discernible reason. I put it down to m'brain not being much use.

Re: Found Footage though, just judging from the teasers, I don't think there's any danger of letting folk down.

Tremendous friend
24/2/2017 02:10:25 pm

Personally I am putting off my suicide attempt until I have seen Found Footage, then I will think about things after that

Mr Biffo
24/2/2017 02:14:45 pm

It's unlikely to make you less keen to end it..

Oliver Wright
24/2/2017 11:59:35 am

I regularly go into CeX to buy DVDs for 25p which I then don't watch. It's an awful deal for everyone involved.

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Paul
24/2/2017 12:17:08 pm

I got a really decent box set of Laurel and Hardy films and shorts for £20 in my CEX. So they can”t be all that bad.

I’m not very good a celebrity spotting. I was in the Costa at Junction 15A of the M1 once when I saw someone I might have recognised. I said to my wife “she looks like Mary Portas” - and I was clearly overheard. I was shot an ugly look.

Now, this could be for one of two reasons: she WAS Mary Portas, but was not ready for the reality of a situation where she may have been ended up below third place in a Mary Portas look-a-like contest. OR she was not Mary Portas, and had not been prepared for a situation where she would have been compared to her.

In either situation, I probably came out of that better than she did.

Also, once I saw David Bellamy leaving a train at Kings Cross in London. He was in too much of a hurry to be bothered by a quick “waffle my grapenuts” kind of greeting.

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DEAN
24/2/2017 12:44:25 pm

I love the picture of the bridge with Little Chef man and Klonoa - it's a beauty.

Does anyone else think that the bridge is telling them to go fuck themselves - twice like a gangsta?

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Chris 'Wahey total wazzock get your nobbly nuts out waheeeey' Evans
24/2/2017 02:28:05 pm

It looks more like a tribute to goatse to me...

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DEAN
24/2/2017 02:51:20 pm

That's inspired, Chris!

I'd love to see your results from a Rorschach test.

Spiney O'Sullivan
24/2/2017 10:01:14 pm

That did not occur to me while drawing that. Now it's all I can see.

DEAN
24/2/2017 12:50:56 pm

The latest teaser is the best yet - it get's off to such a hilarious start and gets very intriguing from there. Can't. Fucking. Wait. Asshole.

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Paul
24/2/2017 03:05:18 pm

Further to CEX comments - the CEX in Chelmsford is pretty big (if you know it). Before it was a CEX, it was a comic shop. A massive comic shop.

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Ewan Kerr
24/2/2017 03:55:16 pm

Every time I go to CEX it smells of blow-offs. Pungent, eggy blow-offs. I think it is something to do with the glass cabinets, and the metal floors, which stop the blow-off fumes from dissipating in the usual manner, keeping the smells in the shop.

Or it could be me.

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Carlos Nightman
24/2/2017 04:16:41 pm

Mr Bloom seems like a nice chap, but also sort of looks like he'd want to murder things.

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Meatballs-me-branch-me-do
24/2/2017 05:09:35 pm

Back when CEX was just the one on Rathbone place and its divorced other half was in Notting Hill Gate, it was way better. Retro games, import games, and Britain's population of puffy jackets (red squirrels) had yet to be wiped out by chavs (grey squirrels).

The basement of the Rathbone one in particular was like Aladdin's cave. Turbo Expresses! Vectrexeses!

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Chris Dyson
25/2/2017 09:18:02 am

I used to stare at the exotic consoles in the window at the Rathbone Place shop in my lunchtime (underpants). The staff didn't wait for you to get out of the door before slagging you off.

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DEAN
24/2/2017 05:57:35 pm

I love CEX.

I think the staff have a pretty hard time because they're dealing with some desperate people and having to explain that their phone is a B grade and not an A and that sort of thing. That's quite fraught at times, I'd imagine.
Their are some unpleasant odours in their, though, and I always assumed that that was down to some of the more fragrant patrons and yes, the music is usually obnoxious and to my mind can only really add to the stress levels of red-armed women shouting about how it never came with a charger in the first place.
To that end I think they should exclusively play Enya and have Yankee candles (Cotton Sheets or Philanderer's Intent) burning to mask to the stench of their more funky clients.... Sweaty Flea or Trainers Jamiroquai.

But yeah, I love CEX. They're trade-in prices are relatively generous and they're not terribly fussy... shit smeared media aside.

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Alastair
24/2/2017 07:32:43 pm

Why the hate for CEX, the two in Belfast have always been fine.

They take all sorts that Game don't for trade in and give better prices across the board. Unless I'm missing something you can buy plenty 2nd hand in Game something that's available cheaper new elsewhere.

The music played in CEX is pretty dire though.

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Picston Shottle
24/2/2017 09:00:17 pm

Last game shop I visited was Gamestation. Does it even exist as a chain anymore? Anyway, the blokes who started Gamestation opened their second store in Hull, where I attended (in loosest sense) university. I worked in a pub not far from their store and they used to come in for a pint after work before having to drive back to, I think, York where they lived. They were nice fellas and always gave me good discounts (freebies) cos I'd give them good discounts (freebies).

Here in the US we have GameStop. Don't have an opinion on it cos I've never been in.

So yeah, all game related stuff comes from Amazon for me, and has done for a long, long time. The only stink I have to endure is my own, and there are no unhelpful staff or unwashed customers to deal with.

Amazon, shopping for misanthropes.

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DEAN
24/2/2017 10:50:06 pm

Gamestop is hugely similar to GAME. Not as clean and tidy, though.
I prefer Gamestops 'color' scheme - Never cared for GAMEs.

Gamestation was my favourite. GAME swallowed it up and shelved the brand.

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MrDrinks
24/2/2017 11:55:59 pm

If Gatiss turns up to my Drinks Party he'll be asked to show his invitation, then explain why The Lazarus Experiment was filmed. Moffat has already been let in but has to pretend that he liked that one.

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Monkey Head
25/2/2017 12:14:43 am

The Nick Cage T Shirt and Botham Album have both just had me getting funny looks in work for laughing out loud. Friday letters on Digi2000 is fast becoming the highlight of my week.

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Paul
25/2/2017 08:39:15 pm

Well, just seen an advert for CEX on TV. It’s pronounced “Sex”. So there you go. Enjoy that little nugget of info.

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DEAN
26/2/2017 12:20:37 am

Thank you, Paul.

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Kendall9000
25/2/2017 11:25:24 pm

There's a new CEX store just opened in my home town of sunny Rhyl. Alongside Poundland and all the boarded up shops it's a downright classy and upmarket addition to the highstreet, at least until someone puts a brick through the window.

Annoying staff and music and layout aside, at least with a CEX store you know you've actually got the desired bird shit encrusted doodah before you walk out the door. Mail order they just seem to throw whatever random tat was closest in a jiffy bag and hope you won't bother with the faff of sending it back.

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Leigh L.
26/2/2017 02:02:23 pm

The best thing about CEX (which is definitely on the up, they've even got one in Port Talbot now - Port Talbot! - although thinking about it I'm not sure that's a persuasive argument for CEX being on the up) is that the oddballs behind the counter stay behind the counter, whereas a visit to Game is a harrowing real-life stealth level. At least with CEX you don't have to scope the place out from the doorway, watching for sweaty neckbeards stalking the aisles itching to scuttle crabwise into your personal space and insist on discovering whether you need anything in particular and what kind of thing you're looking for and how about some Xbox Live points and have you played the new Raving Rabbids game honestly it's one of the best games this year NO IT ISN'T STOP STROKING ME.

Admittedly that experience was a while ago - I don't think there's a new Raving Rabbids game this year, or if there is then Biffo has done a poor job of keeping us apprised of its development.

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Roy (Stuart N Hardy fan)
26/2/2017 06:20:10 pm

Dear Digi,
My god! I've only just discovered that you're still going. Not much of a video game fan, am I.
This is a wonderful discovery for an old school teletext digi fan like me. It was always the first thing I put on the telly in the morning before work. And then when I got home to check if any letter of mine had been printed on the second wave. I did actually have a couple put up which Mr Biffo took the piss out of. I didn't cry though.
Well now I'm married with a kid (surprisingly given the above) and I'm chuffed as anything to know my beloved digi is still going. The 'press reveal' is even still here.
Just one question - does Stuart N Hardy still write in? You used to print many of his letters which he always signed off with 'that is all. I read you every day.'
So glad I found out you're still going strong.

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Starbuck
27/2/2017 10:01:49 pm

Is that you Des?

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