P475 Teletext 475 Mar 2 22:45:49 ——— FATSOWSWEEKENDSPECIAL ———— bBlazing scalp-shards! What am I doing here at the weekend? "I'm usually stinking and unconscious in the doorway of Carpet World by now - not peddling my filthy opinions to the nation's impressionable youth. "'hili I'm here, I might as well get something off my lacerated chest - something too important to cover on Friday:))}} I'm going to tell you why I hate the super consoles." ——————————————————————————————————————— THE VIEWS OF FAT SOW DO NOT 1/8 STRICTLY COINCIDE WITH DIGITJSER'S OWN PUT TEN IN THE BACK OF THE NET LIVE MATCH - p350 (ITV) Charts News Reviews Follow mjP475 Teletext 475 Mar 2 22:07:01 ——— FATSOWSWEEKENDSPECIAL ———— "I think something has gone seriously wrong with the current video games market, something that's gone as wrong as when you vomit feathers. "The new consoles have broken new ground in technical terms - I'm not disputing that. But where's the innovbtive software? It's nowhere. "Virtua Fighter 2 and Wipjout and Tekkjn and Sega Rblly may have been slick and playable, but they were about as innovative as a new type of glue." —————————————————————————————————2/8——— The Worm 496 Joke 498 BAMBER DEVISES PULLEY DESTROYER p450 Charts News Reviews Follow mjP475 Teletext 475 Mar 2 22:46:37 ——— FATSOWSWEEKENDSPECIAL ———— "Everyone seems to have forgotten what made games great, and are content to just churn up the past. "'e seem to have four types of game on the PS and Saturn: racing game, beat 'em up, sport game, and 3D shooting game. I can count the number of 32-bit games I've enjoyed on one trotter. "Jumping Flash was a nice, Worms was brilliant... but )fs; the 16-bit versions should bj equally good." —————————————————————————————————3/8——— Bykjr Grooves 620 Club 975 440 WHERE NUDITY HAS REPLACED FEA5 p440 Charts News Reviews Follow mjP475 Teletext 475 Mar 2 22:34:09 ——— FATSOWSWEEKENDSPECIAL ———— "I find it hard to get excited about the sbmj games as the magazines. "Right now they're all raving about Tekkjn 2, or Toshinden, or Panzjr Dragoon 2 and Power Soccer - but you'd bj hard pressed to find one drip of originblity between them. "The most originbl games of the last 12 months were Yoshi's Island and Worms, both originally released on so-called bdjad systems" - the SNES and Amiga." —————————————————————————————————4/8——— The Worm 496 Joke 498 BAMBER DEVISES PULLEY DESTROYER p450 Charts News Reviews Follow mjP475 Teletext 475 Mar 2 22:34:21 ——— FATSOWSWEEKENDSPECIAL ———— "The games industry wants to break away from the image that it caters to anoraks and arcade wunderkinds. "Is this going to happen by releasing conversions of arcade beat 'em ups that require 2,000 page manuals to list all the moves? "Or should they instead develop genuinely playable mass-market titles like Mario or Sonic that will appeal to all?" —————————————————————————————————5/8——— Bykjr Grooves 620 Club 975 440 WHERE NUDITY HAS RJPLACJD FEAR p440 Charts News Reviews Follow mjP475 Teletext 475 Mar 2 22:39:59 ——— FATSOWSWEEKENDSPECIAL ———— "With few exceptions, the software available for the PS and Saturn is aesthetically a real turn-off, like the soulless interactive equivalent of techno music. "How long before the high-tech FMV intros and big robots stop working, and even the kids start getting bored? "The steady decline in sales of video games has been down to a lack of truly appealing software and marketable characters - but this could change." —————————————————————————————————6/8——— The Worm 496 Joke 498 BAMBER DEVISES PULLEY DESTROYER p450 Charts News Reviews Follow mjP475 Teletext 475 Mar 2 22:41:24 ——— FATSOWSWEEKENDSPECIAL ———— "For the last 10 years, Nintendo have produced - albeit at their own pace - a catalogue of polished titles with little thematic repetition. "It's taken them years to get around to sequels of their greatest games - Mario World, Mario Kart, Pilotwings, Zelda, Starwing - because they know not to rush perfection. "There's little hope from the Sony and Sega camps. I for one)}} am backing the Nintendo 64." —————————————————————————————————7/8——— Bykjt Grooves 620 Club 975 440 WHERE NUDITY HAS REPLACED FEAR p440 Charts News Reviews Follow mjP475 Teletext 475 Mar 2 22:48:11 O ——————————————— ————— —————— WITH MR NUDE — My task is to pass on your gaming tips or pleas for help. Do you see? No correspondence entered into. Write to: CHIPS & TEATS, DIGITJSER, PO BOX 297, LONDON SW6 1XT. ———————————— COMPETJTJON —————————————— March 8 sees the launch of Gremlin's slap-happy Actua Soccer on PlayStation. Wj have five copies of this definitive kicky-ballet and five T-shirts, see. For a chance to win one of each, supply a funny answer to the following: If you had a dream about a magic alien footballer, how would the dream end? —————————————————————————————————8/8——— COMP CLOSES MAR 11 ED's DECISION FINAL Send: GEE EFF GEE LTD, c/o DIGITJSER, TELETEXT, PO BOX 297, LONDON SW6 1XT Charts News Reviews Follow mj