Everyone seems to have my memories.
BUT:
* I was young. And stupid. I still am.
* Young, that is.
* Anyway, I, like Lave, used the "best coverdisks" method of mag purchasing. Well...you would if you were 9* year old buying magazines.
* As such, I used to flit between Amiga Action and Power. I remember having a One Amiga and a spattering of other mags like Format and so on. Format was nice (shiny covers in the later days) but never had enough on games.
* I also started reading Digitiser everyday. It used to feature a big baby headed Campbell and a scary, cyborgian Tony Mott.
* Anyway, scroll down the road of time a few years and I had stopped buying Amiga Magazines by now and moved onto PC Gamer (which I chose over its competitors, especially Zone and Computer Gaming something or other, purely on the fact that I thought it was the same magazine that I had gotten the previous month that had REALLY good cover disks, except
this had a really good cover disk, so I stuck with it for 5 years. I think they were CDs by this time). I still read Digitiser.
* Come the dawn of the internet! Well, actually, it was quite a while after I'd had access to the web that I decided to search for Digitiser related things.... I found the Board of Biffo†. It wwas brilliant. Best Forum Ever. Except for the fact that it was populated by utter cunts. But it was great. Anyway, I got linked to WOS from there one day.
* I was bored one day so I read
everything in the WOS archives
* I thought the forums were a bit boring and grown up compared to the loons at BOB, but after a while of seeing that stupid link pop up I eventually signed up. Mainly because I had a tendency (still do) to just sign up to any and all forums that I see.
*Age is estimated.
* That was an asterisk, not a psuedo bullet point.
† I really miss the Boards of Biffo‡. It was ruined by all those Champion cunts, wasn't it? Or did I make that up?
‡ I really miss Biffo, actually
. It's a pity he recently raged and deleted his entire internet presence.
Goatboy wrote:
Knew the name from mags, Sensible and so on - loved that Sensi manual. Then digitiser (on telly). Remembering Llamasoft stuff from years ago, I happened upon YakYak and there he was. I've only heard the Minter version of the spat between those two (and to be fair Minter is the only one of the two willing thus far to buy me a pint and fill me in) so I never really got the attitude towards him. Then when he was bullied off YY I followed (whilst staying behind, because you can do that on the internet) and then left for here from WoS when it bacame complicated just to have a nice surf over there.
But yeah, no bother here, really. Stu's ok. Also, I'm a fellow Rev, and everyone I've ever read or known who has had a pop at him, I can think of times they've been equally unpleasant on the net. Would be good to see him on here.
a) I loved the Sensible Manuals as a youth but until a year ago had no idea who wrote them.
b) What's a fellow Rev, exactly?