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Hello children! You know me!
Once again these thoroughly pleasant Rodent chaps have got me in to introduce an issue of their splendid video games magazine. This time they have adopted a theme, some months late I understand, of the new generation in games consoles. Reminds me of the time I did the financing on a series of television advertisements for an also-ran cola company. Celebrity’s hair catching fire? Did anyone say ‘insurance scam’? Taste of a new generation? Taste of three months of lobster on a rented island off the coast of Maine more like. Hush hush!
So there I was, minding my own business in the snug at the Groucho, good scotch in one hand, that model with the funny nostrils in the other; and I’m approached by some scruffy oik in a t-shirt he appeared to have stolen from an unsuccessful independent music band. I sense there’s some business here, so I sends off young missy-black-hole-nose-vents to chivvy up a bottle of something French and bubbly ‘CHOP CHOP LUV!’ and this pseud in skinny jeans and I get down to brass tacks.
Long story short, he’s a fan of my gardening magazine Hedge (left to me in Monty Don’s will, look, I’m well aware he’s not figuratively pushing up the daisies but the Donster and I go right back to an, umm, horticultural incident in Mexico in the late ‘70s). So this pasty-faced hermit man has a proposition, should I feel inclined to talk up his marvellous Box Hedge One in the magazine then there might be a well specc’d Jag in it for me.
Perfectly happy to take the chap’s money of course and he slinks off. Flared face returns with the shampoo, I flick the old cork out with the wrists of a man half my age and we’re tucking in. She asks why I’m laughing and I have to tell her of my new good fortune, of course adding the marvellous sting that earlier this year I’d only taken a year’s lease on a modest villa in Sorrento in exchange for saying wonderful things about the Playlawn For!
Quids in children! And what can I say? Next generation? It starts when I bally well say it does, which I am contractually obliged to announce is now! Pip Pip!
Love and squiggles,
Dr Sellout
September 2015
This month
Satoru Iwata: R.I.P A true legend passed away recently. He touched all of Rodent in some way (not that way) |
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256 – The Original Spirit Unkie Tony tells us about the perfect Pacman |
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New 3DS: Days of Future Past Kentish revels in the New 3DS nostalgia |
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They Were Our Gods PaulEMoz gives a preview of the book that Rodent made possible |
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Decisions, decisions, decisions... RubyJester thinks about stories |
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Arcade Fever - Part One: Raising the Dead Unkie Tony begins the long journey in his attempt to bring an old favourite back to life |
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Say what you see! - Part One mogwins channels his inner Roy Walker for our first batch of "Gaming Catchphrase" |
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The Order 1886 Koworld thinks you know too much |
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Satoru Iwata: R.I.P ZooZooBaBa looks to YouTube for insight on just how people are coping |
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Comparing the Classics - Rodent style mogwins compares two classic games: Skyrim and Dark Souls. YEAH! Using hard scientific data. AWW. |
Rodent bites
Last time we did an issue, Thatcher was dead (she still is I believe). Now in a weird sort of parallel, the Nintendo legend Satoru Iwata has died and here we are with a new issue. Thatcher was a bit of a push to write about, but surely our forum would rise to the task of having a few words to say about such a loved gaming icon? Of course they did.
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OnePunchMickey "We should work the headline "Come hell or Iwata" in there somehow. " |
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Ely "I'd write something, but honestly I have no idea what he did that impacted my gaming life." |
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pagettypol "I might draw something. ." (Ed: he didn't) |
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alex "I feel like I should try my hand at a Splatoon writeup as I've been thinking about it a great deal, my kid is obsessed with it, and it got real dusty around the central plaza (where all the miiverse drawings appear) the night Nintendo announced Iwata had died. Yet I think I've got nothing. " (Ed: he had nothing) |
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maibock "Thinking about writing a personal thank you note of how his games brought upon a bond with all three of my kids from the NES(Kirby) to the latest Wii U games. How games are meant to be shared and enjoyed through every generation. Those are the games I believe he tried to make and ensure that those games were made. " (Ed: he didn't) |
Ah...ok. Let's move on from how we feel then, maybe it *is* hard to put into words. Can we perhaps try and respect his memory in some way?
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alex "The thing is, every goddamned picture of him has what looks to be a genuine, engaged and entirely not creepy (see: Shigsy) smile. Seemed to make a pretty solid argument for driving an organization forward and into taking risks without terrorizing them. His passing reminds me I need to do something about my bitchy resting face (and default attitude) or people aren't gonna remember me so fondly. " (Ed: that's something, I guess) |