Anyway. The other day, some random person started a game of it with me. This isn’t unusual, as there’s a random match-up facility. This person, however, asked me in the in-game chat if I was the same “deKay01″ as was in The Telegraph the other day.

I was in The Telegraph?

Apparently so. I then assumed that what had happened was someone had used a screenshot of the game I’d taken and put on the internet (I’ve put a few on Twitpic or my gaming diary) and used it to accompany some story about Word With Friends or something. I searched with Google Images for “Words With Friends”, and was surprised to find the 6th image was this one:

Why this image appeared on Android Guys, I’m not sure. In fact, looking down the list on Google Images, it’s not the only place the image has been used. Hilariously, it’s also been bodged into this one:

which is on “Gizmoninja“. The image is everywhere – like here, here, and here.

All well and stolen, but there’s another place the image appears. Here. The original location. How do I know this? Because the guy who runs that site is the guy who lost in the game, and therefore must have been him (not me) who took the picture.

Well, I say “runs that site”, when actually it’s ran that site. Because he died last year and therefore lost the biggest game of all. I pointed this out to the person who started the game with me and brought all this to my attention – they’d tried to start a game with him too.

In a way, I’m sort of pleased that both me and he are doing the rounds as “example WWF players”, but I’m also annoyed that The Telegraph can just use a dead guy’s screenshot without any sort of permission. Oh well.

Also, it would appear I did beat ThatRevChap at Words With Friends at least once after all! Hurrah!

The other day, I found a Java based Game Boy emulator (JavaBoy), and so, combined with my GB version of ALS, I present to you an online playable version! Woo!

Oh, and in case you’re wondering, no – I didn’t win the competition. My entry wasn’t even counted, as it wasn’t enough of a game

Note the contact details for me on that page have long been dead

Controls:
Start – Return
Select – Backspace
A – Z
B – X
D-Pad – Arrows
Double-click the emulator for more options. Note you need to use Select (Backspace) to select a ‘mower.

So on Twitter, I said this:

Am I missing something regarding the #debill, or are people complaining that they might get punished for breaking the law?

I then had a few replies pointing out how there was more to it than that, and part of the problem was how it was rushed through and not carefully considered and so on. Then, I was told my tweet had appeared on the BBC News Channel at lunchtime! I couldn’t find a clip, but I’m quoted by the reporter on his BBC Blog (third paragraph from the bottom).

Apparently, he thinks I’m a supporter of the bill. Perhaps the only supporter, when actually, I just didn’t know all the facts.

Much like the MPs who voted it in.

Anyhoo – the magazine!

That’s the text message I sent, and this is a clip from the Chris Moyles show. I’m about 2:05 in.

The Chris Moyles Show

There’s even a bit about how to get yourself a picture of Jim Taylor naked. God only knows why we stopped making this magazine with promises like that.

We also had an interview with Jon Ritman (of Head over Heels and Match Day fame)! Top celebrities all wanted to be in our little magazine, of course.

Mostly complaints about Tim saying interaction fiction was dead, which he didn’t quite say, but still – the publicity took us to over 10,000 subscribers. 10,000! Thats more than many print-based magazines!

EDIT: Oh, and look at my anti-prediction there on Page 2. “You wouldn’t see any high street magazines devoting a whole issue to old games, would you?”. Soon after, there was a Retro Edge, Retro GamesTM, and then Retro Gamer! We started it all, folks.

There aren’t any new issues, but you can “enjoy” reading all the old ones again, and shed a little tear for the time when we were at the forefront of online gaming magazine technology. Or something.

Behold: Issue 01!

This time I won a copy of the Xbox 360 game “Rise of the Argonauts”, as well as a matching Xbox 360 faceplate! Amazing!

I have no idea what the game is like, however, and my previous prize of “three Xbox versions of board games” was not exactly something to get excited about.

I had to come up with family friendly versions of “mature rated” games. In the end, I think I won through swamping them with entries. Anyway, my prizes? Not so amazing, unfortunately. I won copies of Xbox Live Arcade lemons Yahtzee, Connect 4 and Battleship. They’re not awful, but they’re not exactly the sort of thing I’d normally be after. Not least because they’re 800 points each. Even less so since I managed to get a free copy of Connect 4 earlier in the week anyway! Tch.

You want to know my submissions for the competition then, right? Right:

BoyoShock: Welsh quiz game where wrong answers mean harmless electric shocks from the special controller.

Ramble Roses XX: OCD botany adventure starring female wrestlers. Take country walks and pick flowers to dry and press.

Wake Alan: Puzzle game where you must assemble Wallace & Grommit style devices to break Alan’s slumber in time for school

Battlefield: Bed Company. It’s all out war as two rival bed manufacturers battle for Slumber Supremacy!

Head Space: Video game version of the hit Xbox 360 TV adverts. Fill your gormless avatar’s head with all the fun of the 360!

A Comb In The Dark: Against-the-clock hairdressing fun for all the family. Try to craft a coiffure before the light fades!

Left 4 Dodd: Road trip multiplayer adventure as 4 teenagers travel across the country trying to reach a Ken Dodd gig in time

50 Cent: Buddies on the Sand. Beach party game with 50 Cent and his G-Unit chums.

The GoatFarmer II. Breed goat allies and use them to ward off the rival SheepFarmer and CowFarmer gangs.

Hello Wars. Futuristic RTS in which two rival factions – one human, one alien – try to out-polite each other with greetings

Resident Orville. Cuddles has locked Orville up in Keith Harris’ mansion and you have to explore and solve puzzles to save him

Anyway, the film is called “ICT and Society”, and was released a couple of weeks ago. You can find it listed on their site.

Here are a few stills from my bit in it:

It’s a clip of a BBC programme called Inside Out, which covers local stories about local people. I was interviewed about Clive Sinclair, and showed off my Sinclair collection. ]]> http://lofi-gaming.org.uk/blog/2006/10/22/clive-sinclair-and-me-on-tv/feed/ 1