Here’s another issue of everyone’s favourite free downloadable gaming magazine that no longer exists! [issuu layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml showflipbtn=true documentid=090519132541-2a1dabd8f46745198e1c2a6696c73c93 docname=ugvm02 username=deKay loadinginfotext=ugvm%20Issue%2002 width=420 height=297 unit=px]
Remember that magazine I used to edit? Years and years ago? Of course you don’t. You probably weren’t born then. Well, using the great online service Issuu, I’ve brought them back from the dead! 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! [issuu layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml showflipbtn=true documentid=090519132449-5014c4483b584e24a4c4bfca9d657be2 docname=ugvm01 username=deKay loadinginfotext=ugvm%20Issue%2001 …
No sooner had I said “I never win anything”, I then go and win something! Again! 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 won a competition today! I’m most impressed, as I never, ever, win anything. At all. Ever. 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 …
Not to be outdone by Jim, I thought I should point out my recent forays into fame and glory. Last summer, a company called TV Choice contacted me after finding my website. They wanted to come and interview me for a day, and film me for one of their educational documentaries. When they turned up, they filmed some of my old computers, and asked me about games “back in the day”. Because I’d told them I work for a school, …
This video is actually from 2003, but it’s only recently that I’ve managed to convert it and upload it to Google Video. 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.