WotR #64 - "64 Times a Lover."

64! PART ONE!
64 Great Spectrum Moments. More actually.

64! PART TWO!
Inside Zzap64!, by an ex-editor.

64! PART THREE!
The Utter History Of The Commodore 64.

With My Kid In America…
8. Katamari Lunacy.

God Of War (PS2)
Uzo pretty boy, then?

Area 51 (PS2, XBOX, PC)
What a Grey day.

Darwinia (PC)
Lemmings what fight.

NARC (PS2)
Winners don’t do drugs. Apart from Sickboy, who, despite smoking a lot of ‘draw’ in his mid-to-late teens was still beating the unholy shite out of all the non-drug users at videogames.

64! PART FOUR!
Blast Corps (N64).

64! PART FIVE!
Eddie Heinz. Here beginneth the lesson…

Gaming for the Blind.
Wipeout Pure.

Image Of The Month
Inappropriate Film Tie-Ins

Simian Simone
On GamesTM: “After the first three issues we got bored, 'what's the point in trying to make something good' is what we all agreed, so we kind of gave up.”

Matt
"I was playing Wipeout Pure on the tube yesterday evening and my nose started running - but I was on track for a gold medal. So I just let it run down my upper lip."

Throngor
On Halo 2: "I had one game, where me and my friend Jimpeccible managed to persuade the opposition to lay down their arms and stop fighting, just like that footy game with the Germans in WW1. For about five minutes we discussed more important matters, such as how on earth we were going to get out of the level, considering there were no obvious entries and exits, also how on earth did we get there in the first place and what precisely we were fighting for? Peace on Earth? A world without Blue people? Who knows!"

We present Rodent's world famous bid to list the top 5 of everything in the world.

Rodent's
Tastes.

Butterscotch

Any sandwich with a fried egg in

Minted lamb

Grilled economy-sausages

Lady

Title: Bust-A-Keaton
Genre: FMV CD-ROM Adventure
Publisher: Thalamus
Description: Guide tragic Bust-A through sumptuous worlds including Ice, Jungle and Desert levels. Also Aztec.
Rating: Unnecessarily weird.

Complete set of back issues here

Sixty-Four!
It’s the 64th issue celebration of all things 64! Well, two…

Yes. It’s a bit hot, so someone, somewhere had the frankly disastrous idea to make this, the sixty-fourth issue of Rodent, a celebration of all things sixty-four!

Well, two.

What a great number, sixty-four is. If it wasn’t for the number sixty-four we’d never have had the Commodore 64 or the Nintendo 64. Or, at the very least, they’d have been called something else. And that simply wouldn’t have been acceptable.

And what a great year 1964 was. The hippies were in full, stinking, flow. The Beatles still sounded good. China detonated its first atomic bomb. And Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans were the last two murderers to be officially suffocated by being hung by their necks from old ropes in order to achieve some kind of stupefyingly crass, karmic payback.

So, enjoy the issue. And the sunshine. George Bush and Tony Blair are just beginning new terms in office, Crazy Frog is Number 1 in the charts, the new series of Big Brother has just started, and all’s well with the world.

Remember the old joke…

Q. What’s a sixty-four?

A. You do me and I’ll owe you not four, but five sessions of cunnilingus.

Sickboy, Editor – June 2005

Rodent Reader Stuart Campbell from Bath writes:
"As ANY idiot knows, hanging does not cause death by suffocation, but by severing the spinal column between two vertebrae. Only in the case of extreme incompetence on the part of the hangman in providing an insufficient length of drop will the condemned suffer the prolonged death of asphyxiation.

I am cancelling my subscription."

And some more words:

Heeelo. So anyway, lots of good stuff is happening this month: over the next few weeks we're promising you a brand spanking new Rodent Shop, RSS feeds, aaaaand - Rodent Radio. Many commentators now say, Mr Gayle Lyngton of Plymouth Ho especially, that Rodent has lost any edge it may once have had. And of course change is as good as giving up so that's what that is. And to celebrate our latest flip-flop in a suffocating fish-on-a-slab history of flip-floppery we've got a sneak preview of what's probably to come...

Cheers then!

Koworld, Publisher - June 2005