Kill or cure?

Think of the typical games player, as seen through the eyes of the media: here he comes, shuffling into our minds eye; always male, bad complexion, too thin or too fat, unhealthy diet and above everything else single, a loner, doomed to spend his days surfing the internet for pornographic images in order to satiate his lonely lust.

This bullshit image of the gamer is what causes us to hide our passion for videogames, to pretend to our friends and family that gaming isn't really that important to us.

But rodents are not solitary animals, we run in a pack! We have wives, boyfriends, lovers, friends and children. Videogaming is a part of our lives, an important part but still only a part. We know what the rest of the world doesn’t: that you can exercise, bathe regularly, have normal human relationships and still, at heart, be a gamer.

Yes! It's the 'relationship' issue.

It's complicated, you wouldn't understand

Now: tell the missus you're working, lock yourself in the computer room and get yourself some of that original spirit of videogaming...

Its third time lucky for AHCHAY

What goes around comes around, and sometimes it hurts KOWORLD

Its always Bust-a-Move time in Felixstowe SIMONB

We made some errors in our Burnout 2 review KOWORLD

The Vectrex makes beautiful in the form of Protector AHCHAY

These partners really love us, they will never leave us. Will you?

That's all sorted then, don't have nightmares.

Next week – oh I dunno; something good I should think!

THE ORIGINAL RODENT october 31st 2003
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REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE - A RETRACTION OF A RETRACTION
Within Way of the Rodent #9 we retracted our suggestion that it could be reasoned that George Lucas is a complete cunt. Our lawyers have suggested that our retraction may have in fact re-inforced the notion that we believe George Lucas to be a total cunt. We are very sorry that our readers may have been left in any doubt as to our true feelings towards Mr George Lucas.