Digitiser Is Back! • Gaming • General Gaming • Eurogamer.net

dan_de_la_peche 3 Dec 2014 10:25:42 28 posts
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I would certainly hope everyone who's now over 25, was playing games and was living in the UK back in the days of Teletext knows who this is, but anyone who doesn't fit this criteria:

Really funny, daily updated, games stuff (and completely unrelated funny stuff) on Teletext (typing that reminds me of my dad chatting to me about shillings). It had a really anarchic/absurdist slant to the humour that really clicked with me, and I was sad when it got binned off and GameCentral replaced it because that turned into a po-faced heap of shit rather quickly.

Two of the guys who were responsible for me developing a, quite frankly, sideways sense of humour, Mr. Biffo and Mr. Hairs are trying to start it up again.

Anyway: Go to Digitiser 2000 , if you're in any way bothered about this. Which you really should be. Just click it once even if you're not bothered.

Edit: Apparently I've fucked the link up, I can't for the life of me figure out how to sort it out, so just put www.digitiser2000.com in your browser like we had to in the good old days.

Edit 2: Oh yeah, and that displays fine?! For fuck's sake

Edited by dan_de_la_peche at 22:35:02 03-12-2014

Edited by dan_de_la_peche at 22:35:39 03-12-2014

dan_de_la_peche 3 Dec 2014 10:29:27 28 posts
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It's very great. Well worth reading, especially right now as the games industry is currently at 90% twattishness, and thus is ripe for a comedic punch to the kidney.

Deleted user 3 December 2014 10:35:48

digitiser is the best, but i reckon you're a little harsh on gamecentral. it lost the humour but still had the most honest reviews in the business. it's currently the games section of metro online and is still the best place for reviews.

anyway, yay for digitiser!

dan_de_la_peche 3 Dec 2014 10:39:07 28 posts
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@bobomb

Yeah, maybe a little harsh, I just found I 'gave up' reading GC due to boredom after a while. Different strokes and all that.

That picture is one of my favourite things. Getting that out there on UK telly? That deserves free drinks in every pub forever, really.

StarchildHypocrethes 3 Dec 2014 10:41:41 33,974 posts
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Is Bamboozle back too?

dan_de_la_peche 3 Dec 2014 10:43:42 28 posts
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@StarchildHypocrethes

Maybe if we ask Biffo nicely he can use his shady teletext connections...

DFawkes 3 Dec 2014 10:44:06 32,785 posts
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StarchildHypocrethes wrote:
Is Bamboozle back too?

Of course! Bamboozle yourself.

StarchildHypocrethes 3 Dec 2014 10:45:18 33,974 posts
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Hah! Excellent!

Deleted user 3 December 2014 10:46:18

i loved the fake adverts:

Deleted user 3 December 2014 10:55:35

Oh my stars, this is gold!

What was the name of the music service on C4 Text? It was as good for music as Digi was for games. Both absolutely smashed Ceefax's and Sky's respective efforts.

ChiefGB 3 Dec 2014 10:57:20 13,815 posts
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Err link is not working.

dan_de_la_peche 3 Dec 2014 11:01:36 28 posts
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@ChiefGB Sorry about that, fixed it.

Deleted user 3 December 2014 11:04:56

FuzzyDuck wrote:
Oh my stars, this is gold!

What was the name of the music service on C4 Text? It was as good for music as Digi was for games. Both absolutely smashed Ceefax's and Sky's respective efforts.

"planet sound", loved that also!

i feel like teletext stuff was like a some sort of weird fanzine made for nothing yet read by millions. so much gold.

Deleted user 3 December 2014 11:11:31

Flashbacks, collapsed behind the counter in Chartbusters reading Digitiser and PSW, coming down hard. Happy days.

ChiefGB 3 Dec 2014 11:24:40 13,815 posts
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@dan_de_la_peche know what, sorry for being a douche. Those comments always come out wrong (for a split second I thought they had disappeared again) Google search sorted it easy enough.

dan_de_la_peche 3 Dec 2014 11:44:55 28 posts
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No offence taken!

PierrePressure 3 Dec 2014 11:49:02 1,478 posts
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I can remember waiting up for the next days pages to refresh on a regular basis.

Think it used to update at about 1:30am :eek:

speedofthepuma 3 Dec 2014 12:15:57 13,428 posts
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It's an awesome blog and quite frankly everyone should get behind it. His review of Far Cry 4 is better than any other review of it. FACT.

fiery_jackass 3 Dec 2014 12:56:15 1,214 posts
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ChiefGB wrote:
Err link is not working.

the link isn't working directly for me as it's for an https site without a valid certificate. The offending "s" is easily removed and then voila! Back to the glory of my youth, flailing about "like an ant in a bath"

richarddavies 3 Dec 2014 13:56:56 8,312 posts
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I love Mr T's help page.

Dear Mr T,

For the past few months I�ve been suffering from a recurring mouth ulcer, inside my left cheek. What do you think might be causing it? I recently became a vegan, so might it be some sort of vitamin deficiency?

Yours,

Lottie Rees (Mrs)

MR T: "I�m afraid that I wouldn�t like to hazard a guess as to the source of your oral discomfort, Mrs Rees. Typically, a mouth ulcer is caused by damage to the lining of your mouth, although the actual cause could be anything from stress and anxiety to a viral infection. My advice is that you should see a doctor or dental hygienist.

"Regardless of what�s behind it, I should WARN you that if you ever suffer some sort of bewildering �VEGAN MANIA� and DECIDE to strip OFF and SUDDENLY COME AT me in THE street with some SORT of sharpened implement, and START jabbing it towards MY mouth WITH THE intention of making an ULCER happen in my MOUTH, I will have NO choice but to KNOCK YOU in the throat WITH my POWERFUL elbow. Do not DOUBT me. This is NO empty threat: I will END your vegan DIET there and then.

"Try EATING your quinoa without A pharynx, you grotesque NUMPTY."

captbirdseye 3 Dec 2014 14:15:52 11,190 posts
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Nice to see it back and loved the David Mellor review of Smash Bros.

dan_de_la_peche 3 Dec 2014 17:37:08 28 posts
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@fiery_jackass

Ive changed it (again) now, fuck me I'm not good at "hyperlink in a message board post" even when there's a button to help me, haha.

JoelStinty 3 Dec 2014 17:50:27 9,530 posts
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Thanks for posting these. Brings back memories. Bamboozle was awesome.

mothercruncher 3 Dec 2014 18:54:29 19,474 posts
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I'm only interested if it has the Outbrain stuff, fucking love that.

DreadedWalrus 3 Dec 2014 19:32:54 1,824 posts
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@dan_de_la_peche It's still broken. Here you are though, this should be what you're looking for. Just replace your link formatting with this:

Digitiser 2000

markytonline83 3 Dec 2014 20:04:42 940 posts
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I remember havin to press 'reveal' on the TV remote and weird little creatures would pop up saying things like "mock-mocka-mock' and reversible sedgewicks.

Very weird