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REZurection.

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"The gameplay was sweet and much more flowing and intricate than the monolithic march of the Space Invaders.”
YAK

sorry…

…we’re late. Things have gone crazyapeshit this week, with Paper Arcade spreading around the internet like some… erm… biological… analogy thing. Begins with a ‘v’… Whatever.

We’ve smiled happily as we’ve done interviews with ‘men magazines’, smirked knowingly at our cut-and-pasted press release on lots of varyingly great and frightening web-sites, and, best of all, we’ve agreed to keep adding to the paper machines as and when.

And no, you can’t have a Discs Of Tron environmental cab. Yet.

Anyway, here’s an issue. First, and by no means, second, Sickboy finally locates his word processor in the Start menu and bashes out another Wasted Youth. It’s all about American vs English arcade cultcha and how Starcade is clearly the greatest thing to have ever been shown on a television. And that’s without any hyperbole or exaggeration whatsoever.

Next, OnePunchMickey offloads a few bittersweet – but mostly bitter – memories of Commodore 64 joysticks, PaulEMoz explains why he loves NiGHTS and Ely gets all prickly-heated about Track & Field.

Finally, the damaged genius that is Thalamus pretend-reviews a new point-and-click adventure. To tell you its name would mess up the joke, so just read.

in zine…

Drink it. Drink it down and then beg for more. But you have to call us daddy. Yes indeed. It’s this week’s original videogaming spirit…

Wasted Youth, part 9. American splendids, from SICKBOY

ONEPUNCHMICKEY and the withering quest to find a decent C64 joystick

PAULEMOZ gushes about NiGHTS. You WILL buy a Saturn from Ebay…

Track & Field. Waggle on, tashy brothers. ELY

THALAMUS sticks it to the sociologists.

In case you missed it last week, here’s Paper Arcade again. FUSEBALL

Goodness gracious us, what COULD we be up to?

Another top slice of positive grown-up gaming then. Speaking of which, we'd like to wish Mark Donald 'good luck' with his re-launch of PC Gamer, Mark appears to be the only newsstand videogaming editor who understands that writing about videogames doesn't have to be for children or be po-faced instead. We're looking forward to seeing the first of the new-style issues - if you like your game-journalism grown-up, funny and self-depreciative go buy the magazine and help chubby old Greg Ingram (head suit at Future Publishing) to see that Mark is on the right track. Just like we are.

Next Week: Dunno, some stuff about games I should think. Maybe something about shooters. Maybe.

The original rodent, June 4th 2004

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